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Lào Cai
Lào Cai ([làːw kāːj] ⓘ) was a city in the Northwest region of Vietnam. It was the capital of Lào Cai Province. The city bordered Bảo Thắng District, Bát Xát District, Sa Pa and the city of Hekou Yao Autonomous County, in Yunnan province of southwest China. It was situated at the junction of the Red River (Sông Hồng) and the Nanxi River (Yunnan), approximately 160 miles (260 km) northwest of Hanoi.
It is a market town for timber, and the Lào Cai Railway Station is located on the Kunming–Haiphong railway to Yunnan Province in China.
The town was invaded by China in 1979 and the border was closed until 1993.
On 20 February 2025 the Vietnamese parliament approved an $8 billion railroad investment to upgrade under Xi Jinping's Belt and road initiative the old French-built Kunming–Haiphong railway, which serves the Chinese border city Hekou Yao, Lao Cai, Hanoi and Haiphong.
On 1 July 2025, according to the plan to arrange and merge administrative units in Vietnam, Lào Cai province and Yên Bái province merged to form the new Lào Cai province. Furthermore, due to the disestablishment of the "provincial city" tier, Lào Cai city was divided into 2 wards (Cam Đường, Lào Cai) and 2 communes (Cốc San, Hợp Thành). They also lost the position of being the capital as it was given to Yên Bái ward, which was a part of the old Yên Bái province.
Lào Cai has a dry-winter humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cwa), similar to most of Northern Vietnam.
The city has diverse topographical and geological features, including hill, mountainous, half mountainous, coastal plains and coastal sand dunes.
The hilly region is in the west, stretching from north to south (in parts of communes: Dong Son, Thuan Duc) with an average elevation of 12–15 m, with total area of 64.93 km2, 41.7% of the city total area. Residents here live on agriculture, forestry, farming. The soil in this area is poor in nutrition, infertile and subject to continuous erosion due to its slope of 7–10%.
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Lào Cai
Lào Cai ([làːw kāːj] ⓘ) was a city in the Northwest region of Vietnam. It was the capital of Lào Cai Province. The city bordered Bảo Thắng District, Bát Xát District, Sa Pa and the city of Hekou Yao Autonomous County, in Yunnan province of southwest China. It was situated at the junction of the Red River (Sông Hồng) and the Nanxi River (Yunnan), approximately 160 miles (260 km) northwest of Hanoi.
It is a market town for timber, and the Lào Cai Railway Station is located on the Kunming–Haiphong railway to Yunnan Province in China.
The town was invaded by China in 1979 and the border was closed until 1993.
On 20 February 2025 the Vietnamese parliament approved an $8 billion railroad investment to upgrade under Xi Jinping's Belt and road initiative the old French-built Kunming–Haiphong railway, which serves the Chinese border city Hekou Yao, Lao Cai, Hanoi and Haiphong.
On 1 July 2025, according to the plan to arrange and merge administrative units in Vietnam, Lào Cai province and Yên Bái province merged to form the new Lào Cai province. Furthermore, due to the disestablishment of the "provincial city" tier, Lào Cai city was divided into 2 wards (Cam Đường, Lào Cai) and 2 communes (Cốc San, Hợp Thành). They also lost the position of being the capital as it was given to Yên Bái ward, which was a part of the old Yên Bái province.
Lào Cai has a dry-winter humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cwa), similar to most of Northern Vietnam.
The city has diverse topographical and geological features, including hill, mountainous, half mountainous, coastal plains and coastal sand dunes.
The hilly region is in the west, stretching from north to south (in parts of communes: Dong Son, Thuan Duc) with an average elevation of 12–15 m, with total area of 64.93 km2, 41.7% of the city total area. Residents here live on agriculture, forestry, farming. The soil in this area is poor in nutrition, infertile and subject to continuous erosion due to its slope of 7–10%.
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