Vietnam
Northern Vietnam
Lào Cai province

Sa Pa

Sa Pa is a town in a beautiful, mountainous region of northern on the border with . The town has a population of 9,400, while Sapa district, covering 677 km², has 82,000 people 2018).
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  • Type: Suburb with 10,600 residents
  • Description: old town of Lao Cai province, Vietnam
  • Also known as: “Chapa”, “Sa Pa town”, “Sapa”, and “Sapa town”

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Town
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or Sapa, was a frontier township and capital of former District, now a ward of town in Lào Cai Province in north-west Vietnam. 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.

Sa Pa

Latitude
22.3335° or 22° 20′ 1″ north
Longitude
103.8426° or 103° 50′ 33″ east
Population
10,600
Elevation
1,500 metres (4,921 feet)
Open location code
7PJ58RMV+C2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 7244010173
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
1568043
Wiki­data ID
Q7395483
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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”
  • Japanese: “サパ”
  • Japanese: “沙垻市社”
  • Khmer: “សាបា”
  • 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: “Сапа”
  • 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: “Sa Pa”
  • Vietnamese: “Thị xã Sapa”
  • Yue Chinese: “沙巴 (市社)”
  • “Sa Pa”

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