Trà Vinh Province

Trà Vinh Province

Infobox province of Vietnam
Name = Trà Vinh
Meaning =


Council Chair =
Committee Chair = Trần Hoàn Kim
Capital = Trà Vinh
Region = Mekong Delta
Area = 2,215.1
Population = 1,015,800
Population year = 2004
Population density = 458.6
Ethnicities = Vietnamese, Khmer, Tày, Hoa
Calling code = 74
ISO code = VN-51
Website = www.travinh.gov.vn

Trà Vinh,is a province in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam. The capital is Trà Vinh.

Administrative divisions

Tra Vinh Province comprises one town (Trà Vinh) and seven districts:

#Càng Long
#Châu Thành
#Cầu Kè
#Tiểu Cần
#Cầu Ngang
#Trà Cú
#Duyên Hải

Demographics

Besides having mostly Vietnamese, Trà Vinh is populated with many members of the Khmer Krom ethnic group. They are partly members of the old Khmer Empire, later divided under political and historical turmoil. Trà Vinh also has one of the largest ethnic Hoa (Chinese) communities in Vietnam.

Name

Although the name is believed to derive from the Khmer language, it was formerly written in Hán tự characters in official Vietnamese records as .


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