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.Photo: Thuydaonguyen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Sa Pa and Bac Ha.
Sa Pa
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Sa Pa is a town in a beautiful, mountainous region of northern Vietnam on the border with China. The town has a population of 9,400, while Sapa district, covering 677 km², has 82,000 people 2018).
Bac Ha
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Bắc Hà is a town in north-western Vietnam, on the border with the town of Hekou in Yunnan, China. The main reason to visit this town is its colorful Sunday market. Many travellers place Bắc Hà on their itinerary when they visit Sa Pa.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lào Cai station and Hekou.
Lào Cai station
Railway station
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Lào Cai station is a railway station in Vietnam. It serves the border town of Lào Cai, in Lào Cai Province. Several passenger trains a day run between Hanoi and Lao Cai.
Former Site of Hekou Customs
Museum
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Former Site of Hekou Customs is a museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hekou and Hekou.
Hekou
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Hekou is a town in Yunnan, China. It is the administrative center of Hekou Yao Autonomous County. It is located on the border with Vietnam, adjacent to Lao Cai.
Lao Cai
- Type: City with 100,000 residents
- Description: provincial city of Lao Cai, Vietnam
- Also known as: “Lào Cai”, “Lao Kay”, “Laokai”, and “Thành Phố Lào Cai”
- Categories: provincial city of Vietnam, border city, and locality
- Location: Lào Cai province, Northern Vietnam, Vietnam, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
22.5004° or 22° 30′ 1″ northLongitude
103.9656° or 103° 57′ 56″ eastPopulation
100,000Elevation
86 metres (282 feet)United Nations Location Code
VN LCAOpen location code
7PJ5GX28+56OpenStreetMap ID
node 369486930OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Yue Chinese—“Lao Cai” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ላዋ ካይ”
- Arabic: “لاو كاي”
- Azerbaijani: “Lao Cai”
- Bengali: “লাও কাই”
- Catalan: “Lào Cai”
- Cebuano: “Thành Phố Lào Cai”
- Chinese: “Lào Cai Chhī”
- Chinese: “老街市”
- Danish: “Lao Cai”
- Dimli (individual language): “Lao Cai”
- Dutch: “Lào Cai”
- Finnish: “Lào Cai”
- French: “Lao Cai”
- French: “Lào Cai”
- German: “Lao Cai”
- German: “Lào Cai”
- Greek: “Λάο Κάι”
- Gujarati: “લાઓ કાઈ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Lào Cai”
- Hakka Chinese: “Ló-kiê-sṳ”
- Hausa: “Lao Cai”
- Hindi: “लाओ काई”
- Hindi: “लाओ कै”
- Indonesian: “Lao Cai”
- Indonesian: “Lào Cai”
- Italian: “Lào Cai”
- Japanese: “ラオカイ”
- Japanese: “ラオカイ市”
- Japanese: “老街市”
- Javanese: “Lao Cai”
- Kannada: “ಲಾಯ್ ಕೈ”
- Kazakh: “Лаокай”
- Kirghiz: “Лаокай”
- 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”
- Oromo: “Lao Cai”
- Pampanga: “Lao Cai Lalawigan”
- Panjabi: “ਲਾਓ ਕਾਈ”
- Persian: “لائو کای”
- Polish: “Lao Cai”
- Polish: “Lào Cai”
- Portuguese: “Lao Cai”
- Pushto: “لاو کای”
- Russian: “Лаокай”
- Serbian: “Lào Cai”
- Serbian: “Лао Кај”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lào Cai”
- Sinhala: “ලාඕ කායි”
- Slovenian: “Lào Cai”
- Somali: “Lao Cai”
- Spanish: “Lao Cai”
- Spanish: “Lào Cai”
- Spanish: “Laos”
- Swahili: “Lao Cai”
- Swedish: “Lao Cai”
- Swedish: “Lào Cai”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Лао Каи”
- Tamil: “லா கோ”
- Tatar: “Лаокай”
- Telugu: “లావో కాయ్”
- Thai: “เลาไค”
- Thai: “หล่าวกาย”
- Turkish: “Lao Cai”
- Turkish: “Lào Cai”
- Ukrainian: “Лаокай”
- Urdu: “لاو کائی”
- Urdu: “لاو کائے”
- Uzbek: “Lao Cai”
- 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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