Lai Châu Province

Lai Châu is a mountainous province in the region of . Lai Châu was a semi-independent White Tai confederation known as Sip Song Chau Tai, was absorbed by France into French Indochina in the 1880s and became part of Vietnam following Vietnamese independence in 1954.
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  • Type: State with 500,000 residents
  • Description: province of Vietnam
  • Also known as: “Lai Châu”, “Lai Chau province”, “Lai Châu province”, “Laïchau”, “Mkoa wa Lai Chau”, “Province de Lai Chau”, “Prowincja Lai Chau”, “Tinh Lai Chau”, “VN-01”, “مقاطعه لاي تشاو”, “இலாய் சாவ்”, and “லாய் சாவு”
  • Neighbors:

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sìn Hồ.

Town
is a commune of Lai Châu Province, .

Lai Châu Province

Latitude
22.2922° or 22° 17′ 32″ north
Longitude
103.1799° or 103° 10′ 48″ east
Population
500,000
Elevation
1,674 metres (5,492 feet)
Open location code
7PJ575RH+VW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1539712907
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
1577954
Wiki­data ID
Q36409
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Lai Châu Province” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Propinsi Lai Châu”
  • Amharic: “ላይ ቻው ክልል”
  • Arabic: “محافظة لا تشاو”
  • Azerbaijani: “Lay Chau Provinsi”
  • Balinese: “Propinsi Lai Châu”
  • Bengali: “লাই চাউ প্রদেশ”
  • Bulgarian: “Лай Тяу”
  • Burmese: “လိုင်ချောင်ပြည်နယ်”
  • Catalan: “Lai Châu”
  • Cebuano: “Tỉnh Lai Châu”
  • Chinese: “莱州省”
  • Chinese: “萊州省”
  • Czech: “Lai Chau”
  • Danish: “Lai Châu”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Lai Chau (wılayet)”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Lai Chau”
  • Dutch: “Lai Châu”
  • Finnish: “Lai Châu”
  • French: “Lai Châu”
  • French: “Province de Lai Châu”
  • Gan Chinese: “萊州省”
  • German: “Lai Châu”
  • Greek: “Λάι Τσάου”
  • Gujarati: “લાઇ ચુ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Lai Châu”
  • Hausa: “Lai Chau Province”
  • Hebrew: “לאי צ’או”
  • Hindi: “लाइ चाउ प्रांत”
  • Hindi: “लाई चउ प्रांत”
  • Hindi: “लाई चाऊ प्रान्त”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Lai Chau”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Lai Châu”
  • Irish: “Lai Châu”
  • Italian: “provincia di Lai Chau”
  • Italian: “Provincia di Lai Châu”
  • Japanese: “ライチャウ”
  • Japanese: “ライチャウ省”
  • Javanese: “Provinsi Lai Chau”
  • Kannada: “ಲೈ ಚಿಯು”
  • Kazakh: “Лай Чау облысы”
  • Khmer: “ខេត្តឡាយចឺវ”
  • Kirghiz: “Лай Чау облусу”
  • Korean: “라이쩌우성”
  • Lao: “ແຂວງລາຍເຈົາ”
  • Latvian: “Lajķou province”
  • Lithuanian: “Lai Čau provincija”
  • Malay: “Lai Chau”
  • Marathi: “लाइ चाउ”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Lai Châu”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lai Châu Séng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lai Châu”
  • Northern Frisian: “Lai Châu (Prowins)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Lai Châu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “La Chau”
  • Oromo: “Godinni Lai Chau”
  • Pampanga: “Lai Chau Lalawigan”
  • Panjabi: “ਲਾਈ ਚਾਉ ਪ੍ਰਾਂਤ”
  • Persian: “استان لای چو”
  • Polish: “Prowincja Lai Châu”
  • Portuguese: “Lai Chau”
  • Pushto: “د لای چاو ولایت”
  • Romanian: “Lai Châu”
  • Russian: “Лайтяу”
  • Serbian: “Lai Chau”
  • Serbian: “Лај Ћау”
  • Sinhala: “ලායි චාඋ”
  • Slovenian: “Lai Châu”
  • Somali: “Gobolka Lai Chau”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لای چو اوستانی”
  • Spanish: “Lai Châu”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Lai Châu”
  • Swahili: “Mkoa wa Lai Châu”
  • Swedish: “Lai Chau”
  • Swedish: “Lai Châu”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Лай Чау”
  • Tamil: “இலாய் சாவ் மாகாணம்”
  • Tatar: “Лай Чау провинциясы”
  • Telugu: “లాయి చావూ”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดลายเจิว”
  • Turkish: “Lai Chau”
  • Turkish: “Lai Châu”
  • Ukrainian: “Лайтяу”
  • Urdu: “لائی چاو صوبہ”
  • Uzbek: “Lay Chau viloyati”
  • Vietnamese: “Lai Châu”
  • Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Lai Châu”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lai Chau”
  • Welsh: “Lai Châu”
  • Western Panjabi: “صوبہ لائی چاؤ”
  • Wu Chinese: “莱州省”
  • Yue Chinese: “萊州”

Localities in the Area

Places to explore: Nậm Vạc 2 and Xà Dề Phìn.

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