Sơn La
Sơn La is a city in the north-west region of Vietnam. It is the capital of Sơn La Province. It is bordered by Thuận Châu District, Mường La District, and Mai Sơn District.
- Type: City with 70,400 residents
- Description: the old provincial capital of Son La province, Vietnam
- Also known as: “Son La Chau”, “Son Lu”, “Thành phố Sơn La”, and “Thị xã Sơn La”
Sơn La
- Categories: provincial city of Vietnam, district-level town of Vietnam, and locality
- Location: Thành Phố Sơn La, Sơn La Province, Vietnam, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
21.327° or 21° 19′ 37″ north
Longitude
103.9144° or 103° 54′ 52″ east
Population
70,400
Elevation
608 metres (1,995 feet)
IATA airport code
SQH
UN/LOCODE
VN SQH
Open location code
7PH58WG7+QQ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Yue Chinese—“Sơn La” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ሶን ላ”
- Arabic: “سون لا”
- Azerbaijani: “Son La”
- Bengali: “সন লা”
- Bengali: “সো‘ন লা”
- Cebuano: “Sơn La”
- Chinese: “山罗市”
- Chinese: “山羅市”
- Danish: “Sơn La”
- Dimli (individual language): “Son La”
- Dutch: “Sơn La”
- Finnish: “Sơn La”
- French: “Son La”
- French: “Sơn La”
- German: “Son La”
- German: “Sơn La”
- Greek: “Σον Λα”
- Gujarati: “સોન લા”
- Hausa: “Son La”
- Hindi: “सोन ला”
- Hindi: “सोनला”
- Indonesian: “Son La”
- Indonesian: “Sơn La”
- Italian: “Sơn La”
- Japanese: “ソンラ”
- Japanese: “ソンラ市”
- Javanese: “Son La”
- Kannada: “ಸೋನ್ ಲಾ”
- Kazakh: “Сон Ла”
- Kirghiz: “Сон Ла”
- Korean: “선라”
- Lao: “ເຊີນລາ (ເມືອງ)”
- Lao: “ເຊີນລາ”
- Latvian: “Sonla”
- Lithuanian: “Son La”
- Malay: “Son La”
- Marathi: “सोन ला”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sơn La Chhī”
- Mingrelian: “სონლა”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Son La”
- Norwegian: “Sơn La”
- Oromo: “Son La”
- Panjabi: “ਸੋਨ ਲਾ”
- Persian: “سون لا”
- Polish: “Sơn La”
- Portuguese: “Son La”
- Portuguese: “Sơn La”
- Pushto: “سون لا”
- Russian: “Сон-Ла”
- Russian: “Шонла”
- Serbian: “Шон Ла”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sơn La”
- Sinhala: “සොන් ලා”
- Slovenian: “Sơn La”
- Somali: “Son La”
- Spanish: “Son La”
- Spanish: “Sơn La”
- Swahili: “Son La”
- Swedish: “Son La”
- Swedish: “Sơn La”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Сон Ла”
- Tajik: “Сон Ла”
- Tamil: “சொன் லா”
- Tatar: “Сон Ла”
- Telugu: “సౌన్ లా”
- Thai: “เซินลา”
- Thai: “ลางซอน”
- Turkish: “Son La”
- Turkish: “Sơn La”
- Ukrainian: “Шонла”
- Urdu: “سون لا”
- Uzbek: “Son La”
- Vietnamese: “Sơn La”
- Vietnamese: “Thành Phố Sơn La”
- Waray (Philippines): “Son La”
- Western Panjabi: “سون لا”
- Yue Chinese: “山羅市”
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