Tân An
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| Basic data | |||
| Country: |
 Vietnam
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| Province : | Long on | ||
| ISO 3166-2: VN : | VN-41 | ||
| Coordinates : | 10 ° 32 ' N , 106 ° 25' E | ||
| population | |||
| City residents : | 166,419 (2009) | ||
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| Area code : | +84 (0) | ||
| Time zone : | UTC +7: 00 | ||
Tân An is a city in Long An Province in Vietnam . It is part of the Mekong Delta in South Vietnam. The district-free city of Tân An had a population of 166,419 in 2009. The city forms the capital of Long An Province. The city has had town charter since 2009 and has the status of a 3rd class provincial town. The city is divided into 6 parishes and 6 wards.
Tân An is the political, cultural, economic, scientific and technological center of Long An Province. The municipality is located in the southern economic region and is the economic gateway to several provinces in the Mekong Delta.
history
Control of rivers in the Mekong Delta began to open up the area in 1705 and brought trade to the Vàm Cỏ Tay River near Tân An (then written: 新安) at the end of the Bảo Định Canal in the early years of the Nguyễn Dynasty around 1802 . In 1800, the entire Mekong Delta fell under the authority of the Nguyễn dynasty. Tân An and its immediate vicinity used to be a province of its own, founded by French colonists in December 1889. The city briefly fell to local communists during the August Revolution .
In October 1956, the government of the Republic of Vietnam under President Ngo Dinh Diem incorporated the province of Tân An into the province of Long An.
Tân An was the headquarters of the 3rd Brigade of the 9th Infantry Division (USA) during the Vietnam War. With the economic opening of the country from the 1990s, the city experienced a significant upswing.
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