Mong Cai
Mong Cai is a coastal town on the Chinese border in Vietnam. Its Chinese neighbor is Dongxing. You would probably consider Mong Cai only at most as a stopping point during your journey from China to Ha Long Bay or from Vietnam to China.Photo: Bùi Thụy Đào Nguyên, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Phó Nháy, Public domain.
- Type: City with 109,000 residents
- Description: provincial city of Vietnam
- Also known as: “Mon Cay”, “Mon Gay”, “Móng Cái”, “Monkai”, and “Wangchieh”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dongxing.
Dongxing
Photo: N509FZ, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dongxing is a town of 150,000 inhabitants in Guangxi on the southwest coast of China. It is a border town to Vietnam with Mong Cai lying on the other side of the border river.
Mong Cai
- Categories: provincial city of Vietnam, border city, and locality
- Location: Quảng Ninh, Northern Vietnam, Vietnam, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
21.5298° or 21° 31′ 47″ northLongitude
107.968° or 107° 58′ 5″ eastPopulation
109,000Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)United Nations Location Code
VN MOCOpen location code
7PH9GXH9+W5OpenStreetMap ID
node 622293422OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Yue Chinese—“Mong Cai” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Móng Cái”
- Chinese: “Móng Cái Chhī”
- Chinese: “芒街”
- Chinese: “芒街市”
- Chinese: “芒街鎮”
- Chinese: “芒街镇”
- French: “Moncay”
- French: “Móng Cái”
- French: “Monkay”
- German: “Móng Cái”
- Hakka Chinese: “Móng Cái”
- Hakka Chinese: “Mông-kiê-sṳ”
- Indonesian: “Móng Cái”
- Italian: “Móng Cái”
- Japanese: “モンカイ”
- Japanese: “芒街市”
- Korean: “몽까이”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Móng Cái”
- Polish: “Mong Cai”
- Polish: “Móng Cái”
- Russian: “Монгкай”
- Serbian: “Móng Cái”
- Serbian: “Монг Кај”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Móng Cái”
- Spanish: “Mong Cai”
- Spanish: “Móng Cái”
- Swedish: “Mong Cai”
- Swedish: “Móng Cái”
- Thai: “ม้องก๊าย”
- Turkish: “Móng Cái”
- Ukrainian: “Монгкай”
- Urdu: “مؤنگ کآی”
- Vietnamese: “Hải Ninh, Quảng Ninh”
- Vietnamese: “Móng Cái”
- Vietnamese: “Múng Cỏi”
- Vietnamese: “Thành phố Móng Cái”
- Vietnamese: “Thị xã Móng Cái”
- Yue Chinese: “芒街”
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