Sa Pa
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).
- Type: City with 42,100 residents
- Description: old town of Lao Cai province, Vietnam
- Also known as: “Chapa”, “Huyen Sa Pa”, “Huyện Sa Pa”, “Sa Pa town”, “Sa Pa Ward”, “Sapa”, and “Sapa town”
Sa Pa
- Categories: district, District-level town of Vietnam, and locality
- Location: Lào Cai province, Vietnam, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
22.3334° or 22° 20′ 0″ north
Longitude
103.8427° or 103° 50′ 34″ east
Population
42,100
Elevation
1,544 metres (5,066 feet)
Open location code
7PJ58RMV+83
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Sa Pa” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سا با”
- Azerbaijani: “Şapa (şəhər)”
- Azerbaijani: “Şapa”
- Betawi: “Sa Pa”
- Cebuano: “Thị xã Sa Pa”
- Chinese: “Sa Pa Chhī-siā”
- Chinese: “沙垻市社”
- Chinese: “沙巴”
- Czech: “Sa Pa”
- Czech: “Sapa”
- Danish: “Sapa”
- Dutch: “Sa Pa”
- Esperanto: “Sa Pa”
- French: “Chapa”
- French: “Sa Pa”
- German: “Sa Pa”
- Indonesian: “Chapa”
- Indonesian: “Sa Pa”
- Italian: “Distretto di Sa Pa”
- Italian: “Sa Pa”
- Japanese: “サパ”
- Japanese: “沙垻市社”
- Khmer: “សាបា”
- Khmer: “សាប៉ា”
- Korean: “사빠”
- Lao: “ຊາປາ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sa Pa Chhī-siā”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sa Pa”
- Norwegian: “Sa Pa”
- Persian: “سا پا”
- Polish: “Sa Pa”
- Portuguese: “Sa Pa”
- Russian: “Шапа (город)”
- Russian: “Шапа”
- Slovak: “Sa Pa”
- Slovenian: “Sa Pa”
- Spanish: “Sa Pa”
- Swedish: “Sa Pa”
- Thai: “ซาปา”
- Ukrainian: “Шапа (місто)”
- Ukrainian: “Шапа”
- Urdu: “سا پا ضلع”
- Vietnamese: “Chapa”
- Vietnamese: “Phường Sa Pa”
- Vietnamese: “Sa Pa”
- Vietnamese: “Thị xã Sapa”
- Yue Chinese: “沙巴 (市社)”
- “Sa Pa”
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