Lao Cai
Lao Cai is a town in northern Vietnam. It is on the border with China, separated from the Chinese town of Hekou by the Nanxi and Red Rivers.Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Sa Pa and Bac Ha.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lao Cai and Hekou.
Former Site of Hekou Customs
Former Site of Hekou Customs is a museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hekou and Hekou.
Lao Cai
- City with about 131,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 230 metres (740 feet)
- Description: provincial city of Lao Cai, Vietnam
- Also known as“Thành Phố Lào Cai”“Thị Xã Cam Đường”“Thị Xã Lào Cai”
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Latitude
22.5004° or 22° 30′ 1″ north
Longitude
103.9656° or 103° 57′ 56″ east
Open location code
7PJ5GX28+56
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OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Lao Cai” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “لاو كاي”
- Bengali: “লাও কাই”
- Catalan: “Lào Cai”
- Cebuano: “Thành Phố Lào Cai”
- Chinese: “老街市”
- Danish: “Lao Cai”
- Dimli (individual language): “Lao Cai”
- Dutch: “Lào Cai”
- Finnish: “Lào Cai”
- French: “Lào Cai”
- German: “Lào Cai”
- Greek: “Λάο Κάι”
- Gujarati: “લાઓ કાઈ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Lào Cai”
- Hakka Chinese: “Ló-kiê-sṳ”
- Hindi: “लाओ कै”
- Indonesian: “Lào Cai”
- Italian: “Lào Cai”
- Japanese: “ラオカイ”
- Japanese: “ラオカイ市”
- Japanese: “老街市”
- Kannada: “ಲಾಯ್ ಕೈ”
- Korean: “라오까이”
- Korean: “라오카이”
- Latvian: “Laokaja”
- Lithuanian: “Laokajus”
- Malay: “Lao Cai”
- Marathi: “लाओ काई”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lào Cai Chhī”
- Mingrelian: “ლაოკაი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lao Cai”
- Norwegian: “Lao Cai”
- Pampanga: “Lao Cai Lalawigan”
- Persian: “لائو کای”
- Polish: “Lào Cai”
- Russian: “Лаокай”
- Serbian: “Lào Cai”
- Serbian: “Лао Кај”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lào Cai”
- Sinhala: “ලාඕ කායි”
- Slovenian: “Lào Cai”
- Spanish: “Lào Cai”
- Swedish: “Lào Cai”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Лао Каи”
- Tamil: “லா கோ”
- Telugu: “లావో కాయ్”
- Thai: “เลาไค”
- Thai: “หล่าวกาย”
- Turkish: “Lào Cai”
- Ukrainian: “Лаокай”
- Urdu: “لاو کائی”
- Urdu: “لاو کائے”
- Vietnamese: “Lào Cai”
- Vietnamese: “Thành Phố Lào Cai”
- Waray (Philippines): “Lao Cai”
- Western Panjabi: “لاو کائی”
- Yue Chinese: “老街市”
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