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 4,200,000 residents
  • Description: city of Vietnam
  • Also known as: “Cần Tho”, “Cần Thơ”, “Cantho”, “Kanthas”, “Kantho”, “Tây Đô”, “thành phố Cần Thơ”, “Thành phố Cần Thơ”, “VN-48”, “Кан-Тхо”, “चैन थो”, “කාන් තෝ”, “근터”, “カントー市”, “芹𡮲”, and “芹苴市社”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Cần Thơ Bridge and Military Region 9 Command.

Bridge
Photo: Anh Khoa, CC BY-SA 2.0.
, is a cable-stayed bridge over the Hậu…

Military installation
The 9th Military Region of Vietnam People's Army…

Can Tho

Latitude
10.0362° or 10° 2′ 10″ north
Longitude
105.7873° or 105° 47′ 14″ east
Population
4,200,000
Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)
IATA airport code
VCA
UN/LOCODE
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”
  • Amharic: “ካን ቶ”
  • Arabic: “كان ثو”
  • Arabic: “كن تاه”
  • Armenian: “Քանթհո”
  • Asturian: “Cần Thơ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kan Tho”
  • 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: “Munisipyo sa Cần Thơ”
  • Cebuano: “Thành Phố Cần Thơ (lalawigan sa Vietnam)”
  • Chechen: “Кантхо”
  • Chinese: “芹苴市”
  • Czech: “Can Tho”
  • Danish: “Can Tho”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Cần Thơ”
  • Dutch: “Can Tho”
  • Dutch: “Cần Thơ”
  • Dzongkha: “ཀེན་དོ། ཝེཊ་ནམ། Can Tho, Vietnam”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كن تاه”
  • Esperanto: “Can Tho”
  • Estonian: “Cần Thơ”
  • Finnish: “Cần Thơ”
  • French: “Cần Thơ”
  • Galician: “Can Tho”
  • German: “Cần Thơ”
  • Greek: “Καν Θο”
  • Gujarati: “કાન થો”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Cần Thơ”
  • Hausa: “Can Tho”
  • Hebrew: “קאן טהו”
  • Hebrew: “קאנטחו”
  • Hindi: “कान थौ”
  • Hindi: “कैन थो”
  • Hungarian: “Cần Thơ”
  • Ido: “Can Tho”
  • Indonesian: “Can Tho”
  • Indonesian: “Cần Thơ”
  • Irish: “Cần Thơ”
  • Italian: “Can Tho”
  • Italian: “Cần Thơ”
  • Japanese: “カントー”
  • Javanese: “Can Tho”
  • Kalaallisut: “Can Tho”
  • Kannada: “ಕಾನ್ ತೋ”
  • Kannada: “ಸಿನ್ ತೊ”
  • Kazakh: “Кан Тхо”
  • Khmer: “ទីក្រុងព្រែកឫស្សី”
  • Kirghiz: “Кан Тхо”
  • Kirghiz: “Кантхо”
  • Korean: “껀터”
  • Lao: “ແຄນໂທ”
  • Latin: “Cần Thơ”
  • Latin: “Canthoum”
  • Latvian: “Kontho”
  • Lithuanian: “Kantas”
  • Lithuanian: “Kanto”
  • Lombard: “Can Tho”
  • Malay: “Can Tho”
  • Maori: “Can Tho”
  • Marathi: “कॉ थो”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Cần Thơ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Cần Thơ Chhī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Cần Thơ”
  • Mingrelian: “კანთო”
  • Mongolian: “Кантхо”
  • Northern Frisian: “Cần Thơ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Can Tho”
  • Norwegian: “Can Tho”
  • Oromo: “Can Tho”
  • Ossetian: “Кантхо”
  • Pampanga: “Can Tho”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਨ ਥੋ”
  • Persian: “کان تو”
  • Persian: “کان‌تو”
  • Persian: “کانتو”
  • Polish: “Can Tho”
  • Polish: “Cần Thơ”
  • Portuguese: “Can Tho”
  • Pushto: “كان ثو”
  • Russian: “Кан Тхо”
  • Russian: “Кантхо”
  • Scots: “Cần Thơ”
  • Serbian: “Кантхо”
  • Sinhala: “කාන් තො”
  • Somali: “Can Tho”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کان تو”
  • Spanish: “Can Tho”
  • Spanish: “Cần Thơ”
  • Swahili: “Can Tho”
  • Swedish: “Can Tho”
  • Tagalog: “Can Tho”
  • Tagalog: “Cần Thơ”
  • Tajik: “Кан Тхо”
  • Tamil: “கேன் தொ”
  • Tatar: “Кан Тхо”
  • Tatar: “Канто (Вьетнам)”
  • Tatar: “Канто”
  • Telugu: “కాన్ తో”
  • Thai: “เกิ่นเทอ”
  • Turkish: “Can Tho”
  • Turkish: “Cần Thơ”
  • Ukrainian: “Кантхо”
  • Urdu: “کآن تھؤ”
  • Urdu: “کین تھو”
  • Uzbek: “Can Tho”
  • Uzbek: “Kantxo”
  • Venetian: “Cần Thơ”
  • Vietnamese: “Cần Thơ”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Can Tho”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Cần Thơ”
  • Wu Chinese: “芹苴市”
  • Yue Chinese: “芹苴”

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