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Lào Cai
Thành phố Lào Cai
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Lào Cai City | |
Location in Vietnam | |
Coordinates: 22°28′50″N 103°58′30″E / 22.48056°N 103.97500°E / 22.48056; 103.97500 | |
Country | Vietnam |
Province | Lào Cai |
Established city | 30 November 2004 |
Area | |
• Total | 282.13 km2 (108.93 sq mi) |
Population
(2020)[1]
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• Total | 130,671 |
Climate | Cwa |
Lào Cai ([làːw kāːj] ⓘ) is a city in the Northwest region of Vietnam. It is the capital of Lào Cai Province. The city borders Bảo Thắng District, Bát Xát District, Sa Pa and the city of Hekou Yao Autonomous County, in Yunnan province of southwest China. It lies at the junction of the Red River (Sông Hồng) and the Nanxi River (Yunnan) approximately 160 miles (260 km) northwest of Hanoi.[2]
It is a market town for timber, and the Lào Cai Railway Station is located on the Hải Phòng railway to Yunnan Province in China.
The town was invaded by China in 1979 and the border was closed until 1993.[3][4] The town has a carbide factory.
Lào Cai has a dry-winter humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cwa), similar to most of Northern Vietnam.
Climate data for Lào Cai | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Record high °C (°F) | 31.4 (88.5) |
34.6 (94.3) |
38.0 (100.4) |
39.0 (102.2) |
42.8 (109.0) |
40.1 (104.2) |
39.7 (103.5) |
40.0 (104.0) |
36.8 (98.2) |
37.2 (99.0) |
33.2 (91.8) |
32.8 (91.0) |
42.8 (109.0) |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 20.1 (68.2) |
21.3 (70.3) |
25.3 (77.5) |
28.8 (83.8) |
32.1 (89.8) |
32.7 (90.9) |
32.7 (90.9) |
32.4 (90.3) |
31.3 (88.3) |
28.7 (83.7) |
25.1 (77.2) |
21.9 (71.4) |
27.7 (81.9) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | 15.7 (60.3) |
17.0 (62.6) |
20.7 (69.3) |
24.2 (75.6) |
27.0 (80.6) |
27.9 (82.2) |
27.9 (82.2) |
27.5 (81.5) |
26.3 (79.3) |
24.0 (75.2) |
20.2 (68.4) |
17.0 (62.6) |
23.0 (73.4) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 13.3 (55.9) |
14.5 (58.1) |
17.9 (64.2) |
21.1 (70.0) |
23.6 (74.5) |
24.7 (76.5) |
24.9 (76.8) |
24.4 (75.9) |
23.3 (73.9) |
21.2 (70.2) |
17.5 (63.5) |
14.3 (57.7) |
20.0 (68.0) |
Record low °C (°F) | 1.4 (34.5) |
5.6 (42.1) |
6.8 (44.2) |
10.0 (50.0) |
14.8 (58.6) |
18.7 (65.7) |
20.0 (68.0) |
17.3 (63.1) |
15.8 (60.4) |
8.8 (47.8) |
5.8 (42.4) |
2.8 (37.0) |
1.4 (34.5) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 22 (0.9) |
33 (1.3) |
58 (2.3) |
129 (5.1) |
171 (6.7) |
239 (9.4) |
302 (11.9) |
355 (14.0) |
222 (8.7) |
153 (6.0) |
54 (2.1) |
27 (1.1) |
1,764 (69.4) |
Average rainy days | 7.8 | 8.8 | 11.5 | 15.8 | 16.8 | 18.7 | 20.9 | 21.1 | 15.8 | 14.8 | 10.2 | 7.7 | 169.8 |
Average relative humidity (%) | 84.8 | 84.0 | 82.5 | 83.1 | 81.4 | 84.4 | 85.8 | 86.0 | 85.5 | 85.8 | 86.3 | 85.8 | 84.6 |
Mean monthly sunshine hours | 80.4 | 76.9 | 105.0 | 144.9 | 189.2 | 148.9 | 166.6 | 168.1 | 162.5 | 129.9 | 105.4 | 110.6 | 1,588.4 |
Source: Vietnam Institute for Building Science and Technology[5] |
As of 2020 the city had a population of 130,671, covering an area of 282.13 km2.[1]
Ethnic minorities in Lào Cai used to speak Southwestern Mandarin and Vietnamese to each other when their languages were not mutually intelligible.[6]
Lào Cai City is officially divided into 17 commune-level sub-divisions, including 10 wards (Bắc Cường, Bắc Lệnh, Bình Minh, Cốc Lếu, Duyên Hải, Kim Tân, Lào Cai, Nam Cường, Pom Hán, and Xuân Tăng) and 7 rural communes (Cam Đường, Cốc San, Đồng Tuyển, Hợp Thành, Tả Phời, Thống Nhất, Vạn Hòa).[1]
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Điện Biên province |
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Hòa Bình province |
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Lai Châu province |
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Lào Cai province |
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Sơn La province |
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Yên Bái province |
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