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Can Tho

Can Tho is the biggest city of the Mekong Delta, in with an estimated population of 1.6 million in 2019. The name comes from "cầm thi giang", river of poems.
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  • Type: City with 1,510,000 residents
  • Description: municipality of Vietnam
  • Also known as: “Cần Thơ”, “Kan Tho”, “Tây Đô”, and “Thành phố Cần Thơ”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Cần Thơ Bridge.

Bridge
Photo: Tomdoan, Public domain.
, is a cable-stayed bridge over the Hậu River, the largest distributary of the Mekong River, in the city of Cần Thơ in southern . The bridge is 2.75 kilometres long.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bình Minh.

Town
Photo: Bùi Thụy Đào Nguyên, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a town of Vĩnh Long Province, in the region of . Under the decree No 89/NQ-CP dated Dec 28, 2012, the cabinet of Vietnam SR decided to upgrade of Vĩnh Long to town from rural district.

Can Tho

Latitude
10.0362° or 10° 2′ 10″ north
Longitude
105.7873° or 105° 47′ 14″ east
Population
1,510,000
Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)
IATA airport code
VCA
United Nations Location Code
VN VCA
Open location code
7P272QPP+FW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 948325197
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1586203
Wiki­data ID
Q216075
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Can Tho” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Can Tho”
  • Arabic: “كان ثو”
  • Arabic: “كن تاه”
  • Armenian: “Քանթհո”
  • Asturian: “Cần Thơ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kantxo”
  • Balinese: “Cần Thơ”
  • Basque: “Can Tho”
  • Basque: “Cần Thơ”
  • Belarusian: “Кантхо”
  • Bengali: “কান থো”
  • Bengali: “ক্যান থো”
  • Bulgarian: “Кан Тхо”
  • Burmese: “ကန္ထားမြို့”
  • Burmese: “ကန်သို”
  • Catalan: “Cần Thơ”
  • Cebuano: “Thành Phố Cần Thơ (lalawigan sa Vietnam)”
  • Cebuano: “Thành Phố Cần Thơ”
  • Chechen: “Кантхо”
  • Chinese: “Cần Thơ Chhī”
  • Chinese: “芹𡮲”
  • Chinese: “芹苴”
  • Chinese: “芹苴市”
  • Chinese: “芹苴市社”
  • Czech: “Can Tho”
  • Czech: “Cần Thơ”
  • Danish: “Can Tho”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Cần Thơ”
  • Dutch: “Can Tho”
  • Dutch: “Cần Thơ”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كن تاه”
  • Esperanto: “Can Tho”
  • Estonian: “Cần Thơ”
  • Finnish: “Can Tho”
  • Finnish: “Cần Thơ”
  • French: “Can Tho”
  • French: “Cần Tho”
  • French: “Cần Thơ”
  • Galician: “Can Tho”
  • German: “Can Tho”
  • German: “Cần Thơ”
  • German: “VN-48”
  • Greek: “Καν Θο”
  • Gujarati: “કાન થો”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Cần Thơ”
  • Hausa: “Can Tho”
  • Hebrew: “קאנטחו”
  • Hindi: “कान थौ”
  • Hindi: “कैन थो”
  • Hindi: “चैन थो”
  • Hungarian: “Cần Thơ”
  • Ido: “Can Tho”
  • Indonesian: “Can Tho”
  • Indonesian: “Cần Thơ”
  • Irish: “Cần Thơ”
  • Italian: “Can Tho”
  • Italian: “Cần Thơ”
  • Italian: “Thành phố Cần Thơ”
  • Japanese: “カントー”
  • Japanese: “カントー市”
  • Japanese: “芹苴市”
  • Kalaallisut: “Can Tho”
  • Kannada: “ಸಿನ್ ತೊ”
  • Khmer: “ទីក្រុងព្រែកឫស្សី”
  • Kirghiz: “Кантхо”
  • Korean: “근터”
  • Korean: “껀터”
  • Lao: “ແຄນໂທ”
  • Latin: “Cần Thơ”
  • Latin: “Canthoum”
  • Latvian: “Kantho”
  • Latvian: “Kontho”
  • Lithuanian: “Kantas”
  • Lithuanian: “Kanthas”
  • Lithuanian: “Kanto”
  • Lombard: “Can Tho”
  • Malay: “Can Tho”
  • Maori: “Can Tho”
  • Marathi: “कॉ थो”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Cần Thơ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Cần Thơ”
  • Mingrelian: “კანთო”
  • Mongolian: “Кантхо”
  • Northern Frisian: “Cần Thơ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Can Tho”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cần Thơ”
  • Norwegian: “Can Tho”
  • Ossetian: “Кантхо”
  • Pampanga: “Can Tho”
  • Persian: “کان تو”
  • Persian: “کان‌تو”
  • Polish: “Can Tho”
  • Polish: “Cần Thơ”
  • Portuguese: “Can Tho”
  • Russian: “Кантхо”
  • Scots: “Cần Thơ”
  • Serbian: “Кантхо”
  • Sinhala: “කාන් තො”
  • Sinhala: “කාන් තෝ”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کان تو”
  • Spanish: “Can Tho”
  • Spanish: “Cần Tho”
  • Spanish: “Cần Thơ”
  • Swahili: “Can Tho”
  • Swedish: “Can Tho”
  • Swedish: “Cần Thơ”
  • Swedish: “Cantho”
  • Tagalog: “Can Tho”
  • Tagalog: “Cần Thơ”
  • Tamil: “கேன் தொ”
  • Tatar: “Канто (Вьетнам)”
  • Tatar: “Канто”
  • Telugu: “కాన్ తో”
  • Thai: “เกิ่นเทอ”
  • Turkish: “Cần Thơ”
  • Ukrainian: “Кан-Тхо”
  • Ukrainian: “Кантхо”
  • Urdu: “کآن تھؤ”
  • Venetian: “Cần Thơ”
  • Vietnamese: “Cần Thơ”
  • Vietnamese: “thành phố Cần Thơ”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Can Tho”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Cần Thơ”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Cantho”
  • Wu Chinese: “芹苴市”
  • Yue Chinese: “芹苴”

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