Northern Vietnam
Lào Cai province
Sa Pa

Sa Pa

Sa Pa or Sapa, was a frontier township and capital of former Sa Pa District, now a ward of Sa Pa town in Lào Cai Province in north-west Vietnam. Sa Pa ward is bordered by Mường Hoa commune to the east, Phan Si Păng ward to the west, Cầu Mây ward to the south and the wards of Hàm Rồng, Sa Pả to the north.
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  • Type: Town
  • Description: ward of Lào Cai province, Vietnam
  • Also known as: “Sa Pa ward” and “Thị xã Sa Pa”

Sa Pa

Latitude
22.33592° or 22° 20′ 9″ north
Longitude
103.84237° or 103° 50′ 33″ east
Open location code
7PJ58RPR+9W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 369498600
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Wiki­data ID
Q1000140
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Vietnamese—“Sa Pa” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Phường Sa Pa”
  • Cebuano: “Sa Pa”
  • Chinese: “沙坝坊”
  • Chinese: “沙坝镇”
  • Chinese: “沙垻坊”
  • Dutch: “Sa Pa”
  • French: “Sa Pa”
  • German: “Sa Pa”
  • Hebrew: “סאפה”
  • Japanese: “サパ”
  • Korean: “사빠”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sa Pa”
  • Spanish: “Sa Pa”
  • Spanish: “Sapa”
  • Thai: “ซาปา”
  • Urdu: “سا پا”
  • Vietnamese: “Chapa”
  • Vietnamese: “Phường Sa Pa”
  • Vietnamese: “Sa Pa”
  • Vietnamese: “Sa-pa”
  • Vietnamese: “Sapa”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Sa Pa”. Photo: Thuydaonguyen, CC BY-SA 3.0.