Place:Kien Giang, Vietnam

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NameKien Giang
Alt namesKien Giangsource: Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) p 692-693; Encyclopædia Britannica (1988) VI, 854
Kiên Giangsource: Wikipedia
Kîén Giangsource: Getty Vocabulary Program
TypeProvince
Coordinates10.0°N 105.167°E
Located inVietnam     (1976 - )
Contained Places
Inhabited place
Dương Dông
Haà Tiên
Hòn Chông
Kiên Bình
Kiên Hưng
Phưoc Long
Rạch Giá
Vĩnh Tuy
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names


the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia

Kiên Giang is a province of Vietnam, located in the Mekong Delta region of southern Vietnam. It is known for fishing and rice farming. The provincial capital is Rạch Giá, from Ho Chi Minh City. Kiên Giang's area is about and its population is about 1,634,043, of which 22 percent live in urban areas.

Kiên Giang is bordered with An Giang province in the northeast, Cần Thơ and Hậu Giang provinces in the east, Bạc Liêu province in the southeast and Cà Mau province in the south, and Kampot province of Cambodia (with the border) in the west, and the Gulf of Thailand in the southwest (with the coast).

According to survey results on April 1, 2009, Kiên Giang province's population is 1,683,149 people.

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