Lào Cai (City)

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Lào Cai
Lào Cai (Vietnam)
Lào Cai
Lào Cai
Basic data
Country: VietnamVietnam Vietnam
Region: North Vietnam ( Bắc Bộ )
Region : Northwest
Province : Lào Cai
ISO 3166-2: VN : VN-02
Coordinates : 22 ° 29 ′  N , 103 ° 57 ′  E Coordinates: 22 ° 29 ′  N , 103 ° 57 ′  E
City area: 229.67 km²
population
City residents : 98,363 (2009)
Population density : 428 inhabitants per km²
Further information
Post Code: 19 17
Area code : +84 (0) 20 38
Vehicle registration number : 24
Time zone : UTC +7: 00
administration
City structure: 12
Districts: 5
Chairman of the People's Committee: Nguyễn Văn Vịnh
Website: www.laocai.gov.vn

Lào Cai is a provincial town ( thành phố trực thuộc tỉnh ) in northwest Vietnam and the capital of the Lào Cai province of the same name . It is located directly on the border with the Chinese district of Honghe opposite the city of Hékǒu Yáozú ( Chinese  河口 镇 , Vietnamese: Hà Khẩu) at the confluence of the Nậm Thi or Nam Ti ( Chinese  南 溪河, Nanxi He ) in the Red River .

Origin of name

The term Lào Kay was used by the French colonial administration and pronounced Lào Cai by the Vietnamese . In the spelling Lào Cai, it has been the official name of the city since November 1950.

One of the theories for the origin of this name is as follows: in the area of ​​today's district Cốc Lếu there was an old market town, from which a trading town emerged, which was called Lão Nhai (老街, today Phố Cũ , old town). "Lão" or "Lạo" is the name of an ethnic group, and Lão Nhai is seen to mean "City of the Lão / Lạo". Lao Kaù was the name of a gunboat with which the adventurer and trader Jean Dupuis undertook a naval expedition on the Red River to the Chinese province of Yunnan in January 1873 . According to the historian Đào Duy Anh , this name was derived from Lão Nhai. The French are said to have derived the spelling Lào Kay from Lao Kaù on their documents and maps.

Administrative division

The current city was founded in 2004 through the merger of Lào Cai with the twin city of Cam Đường , seven kilometers away . It is divided into twelve districts ( phường ) and five municipalities. The districts are Lào Cai, Phố Mới, Duyên Hải, Cốc Lếu, Kim Tân, Pom Hán, Bắc Lệnh, Thống Nhất, Xuân Tăng, Bắc Cường, Nam Cường and Bình Minh, the communities of Vạn Hòể, Cam TuyĐồ, Đồng Tuy Tả Phời and Hợp Thành.

traffic

The city is an important traffic junction on the Yunnan Railway , as passenger traffic from Hanoi ends here. On the Chinese side, this was discontinued in 2003. Freight traffic still takes place in the Yunnan Province, so that the city, together with neighboring Hékǒu, is also a transshipment point.

sons and daughters of the town

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. People's Committee of the City of Lào Cai: Dates of the city. (No longer available online.) December 10, 2008, archived from the original on April 3, 2011 ; accessed on April 11, 2011 (vietn.). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / egov.laocai.gov.vn
  2. Census Steering Committee: Results of the Vietnam Census 2009. June 2010, accessed on April 11, 2011 (Vietnam).
  3. ^ A b Administration of Lào Cai: History of Lao Cai: Origin of the name. January 21, 2008, accessed April 11, 2011 (Vietnam).