Vietnam
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Ho Chi Minh City

Vung Tau

Vung Tau is a city in , about 125 km from . Its nearness to Saigon and its beauty and fresh air makes it a very popular destination for weekends.
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  • Type: City with 380,000 residents
  • Description: provincial city of Ba Ria-Vung Tau, Vietnam
  • Also known as: “Cape Saint Jacques”, “Thành phố Vũng Tàu”, “Vũng Tàu”, “Xa Vung Tau”, and “頭 頓市”
  • Historically known as: “Cape Saint James”, “Saint James”, and “St. James”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Christ of Vung Tau.

Photo: Chris Phan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Christ the King of Vũng Tàu is a statue of Jesus, standing on Mount Nhỏ in Vũng Tàu, , . The Vietnamese Catholic Church built the statue in 1974 and it was completed on 2 December 1994.

Vung Tau

Latitude
10.3479° or 10° 20′ 52″ north
Longitude
107.0745° or 107° 4′ 28″ east
Population
380,000
Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)
IATA airport code
VTG
United Nations Location Codes
VN CSJ and VN VUT
Open location code
7P2983XF+5Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 369487044
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1562414
Wiki­data ID
Q21194
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Vung Tau” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Vung Tau”
  • Afrikaans: “Vung Tau”
  • Albanian: “Vung Tau”
  • Amharic: “ቩንግ ታው”
  • Arabic: “فنغ تاو”
  • Arabic: “نج تاو”
  • Aragonese: “Vung Tau”
  • Armenian: “Վունգտաու”
  • Arpitan: “Vung Tau”
  • Asturian: “Vung Tau”
  • Aymara: “Vung Tau”
  • Azerbaijani: “Vunqtau”
  • Bambara: “Vung Tau”
  • Banjar: “Vung Tau”
  • Basque: “Vũng Tàu”
  • Bavarian: “Vung Tau”
  • Belarusian: “Вунгтау”
  • Bosnian: “Vung Tau”
  • Breton: “Vung Tau”
  • Breton: “Vũng Tàu”
  • Buginese: “Vung Tau”
  • Buginese: “ᨓᨘᨊᨁ ᨈᨕᨘ”
  • Bulgarian: “Вунгтау”
  • Catalan: “Vũng Tàu”
  • Cebuano: “Vung Tau”
  • Cheyenne: “Vung Tau”
  • Chinese: “Vũng Tàu Chhī”
  • Chinese: “城庯淎艚”
  • Chinese: “头顿市”
  • Chinese: “头顿市社”
  • Chinese: “淎艚市”
  • Chinese: “頭頓”
  • Chinese: “頭頓市”
  • Chinese: “頭頓市社”
  • Cornish: “Vung Tau”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Vung Tau”
  • Czech: “Vũng Tàu”
  • Czech: “Vungtau”
  • Danish: “Vung Tau”
  • Danish: “Vũng Tàu”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Vung Tau”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Vũng Tàu”
  • Dutch: “Vũng Tàu”
  • Esperanto: “Vũng Tàu”
  • Estonian: “Vung Tau”
  • Estonian: “Vũng Tàu”
  • Extremaduran: “Vung Tau”
  • Faroese: “Vung Tau”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Vung Tau”
  • Fijian: “Vung Tau”
  • Fijian: “Vũng Tàu”
  • Finnish: “Vũng Tàu”
  • Finnish: “Vungtau”
  • French: “Cap Saint Jacques”
  • French: “Cap-Saint-Jacques”
  • French: “Vung Tau”
  • French: “Vũng Tàu”
  • French: “Ville du Cap” (historical)
  • Friulian: “Vung Tau”
  • Fulah: “Vung Tau”
  • Fulah: “Vũng Tàu”
  • Gagauz: “Vung Tau”
  • Galician: “Vung Tau”
  • Ganda: “Vung Tau”
  • German: “Cap Saint-Jacques”
  • German: “Vung Tau”
  • German: “Vũng Tàu”
  • Gorontalo: “Vũng Tàu”
  • Greek: “Βουνγκ Τάου”
  • Guarani: “Vung Tau”
  • Haitian: “Vung Tau”
  • Hebrew: “וונג טאו”
  • Hungarian: “Vũng Tàu”
  • Icelandic: “Vung Tau”
  • Igbo: “Vung Tau”
  • Indonesian: “Vung Tau”
  • Indonesian: “Vũng Tàu”
  • Interlingua: “Vung Tau”
  • Interlingue: “Vung Tau”
  • Inupiaq: “Vung Tau”
  • Irish: “Vung Tau”
  • Italian: “Vung Tau”
  • Italian: “Vũng Tàu”
  • Japanese: “ヴンタウ”
  • Japanese: “ブンタウ”
  • Japanese: “淎艚市”
  • Japanese: “聖雀”
  • Javanese: “Vung Tau”
  • Kabyle: “Vung Tau”
  • Kalaallisut: “Vung Tau”
  • Khmer: “ក្រុងអូរកាប់”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Vung Tau”
  • Kölsch: “Vung Tau”
  • Kongo: “Vung Tau”
  • Korean: “붕따우 시”
  • Korean: “붕따우”
  • Korean: “붕타우”
  • Kurdish: “Vung Tau”
  • Ladino: “Vung Tau”
  • Latvian: “Vung Tau”
  • Latvian: “Vungtau”
  • Latvian: “Vuntau”
  • Lezghian: “Вунгтау”
  • Ligurian: “Vung Tau”
  • Limburgan: “Vung Tau”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Vung Tau”
  • Lithuanian: “Vungtau”
  • Lombard: “Vung Tau”
  • Low German: “Vung Tau”
  • Low German: “Vũng Tàu”
  • Luxembourgish: “Vung Tau”
  • Luxembourgish: “Vũng Tàu”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Vung Tau”
  • Malagasy: “Vung Tau”
  • Malay: “Vung Tau”
  • Maltese: “Vung Tau”
  • Maltese: “Vũng Tàu”
  • Maori: “Vung Tau”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Vũng Tàu Chhī”
  • Minangkabau: “Vũng Tàu”
  • Mingrelian: “ვუნგტაუ”
  • Moksha: “Вунгтау”
  • Mongolian: “Вунгтау”
  • Northern Frisian: “Vung Tau”
  • Northern Sami: “Vung Tau”
  • Northern Sami: “Vũng Tàu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Vung Tau”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Vũng Tàu”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vung Tau”
  • Norwegian: “Vung Tau”
  • Novial: “Vung Tau”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Vung Tau”
  • Pangasinan: “Vung Tau”
  • Papiamento: “Vung Tau”
  • Pedi: “Vung Tau”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Vung Tau”
  • Persian: “وونگ تائو”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Vung Tau”
  • Piemontese: “Vung Tau”
  • Polish: “Vung Tau”
  • Polish: “Vũng Tàu”
  • Portuguese: “Vung Tau”
  • Portuguese: “Vũng Tàu”
  • Quechua: “Vung Tau”
  • Romanian: “Vung Tau”
  • Romansh: “Vung Tau”
  • Russian: “Вунгтау”
  • Russian: “Вунгтоу”
  • Samoan: “Vung Tau”
  • Sardinian: “Vung Tau”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Vung Tau”
  • Scots: “Vũng Tàu”
  • Serbian: “Vũng Tàu”
  • Serbian: “Вунг Тау”
  • Serbian: “Вунгтау”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Vung Tau”
  • Sicilian: “Vung Tau”
  • Silesian: “Vung Tau”
  • Southern Sotho: “Vung Tau”
  • Spanish: “Vung Tau”
  • Spanish: “Vũng Tau”
  • Spanish: “Vũng Tàu”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Vung Tau”
  • Swahili: “Vung Tau”
  • Swedish: “Vung Tau”
  • Swedish: “Vũng Tàu”
  • Swedish: “Vungtau”
  • Tagalog: “Vung Tau”
  • Tagalog: “Vũng Tàu”
  • Tatar: “Вуңтау”
  • Thai: “วุ้งเต่า”
  • Thai: “หวุงต่าว”
  • Thai: “หวุงเต่า”
  • Turkish: “Vung Tau Şehri”
  • Turkish: “Vung Tau”
  • Turkish: “Vũng Tàu”
  • Turkmen: “Vung Tau”
  • Twi: “Vung Tau”
  • Ukrainian: “Вунгтау”
  • Ukrainian: “Вунґтау”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Vung Tau”
  • Urdu: “وؤنگ تاو”
  • Uzbek: “Vung Tau”
  • Venetian: “Vũng Tàu”
  • Vietnamese: “Vũng Tàu”
  • Vlax Romani: “Vung Tau”
  • Volapük: “Vung Tau”
  • Volapük: “Vũng Tàu”
  • Võro: “Vung Tau”
  • Walloon: “Vung Tau”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Vung Tau”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Vũng Tàu”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Vungtau”
  • Welsh: “Vung Tau”
  • Welsh: “Vũng Tàu”
  • Wu Chinese: “头顿市”
  • Yue Chinese: “頭頓”
  • Zeeuws: “Vung Tau”
  • Zhuang: “Vung Tau”
  • Zulu: “IVungtau”
  • “Vung Tau”

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