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Ben Tre

Area: 2,321.6 sq. km
Population: 1,345,600 habitants (2004)
Capital: Ben Tre Town
Districts: Chau Thanh, Cho Lach, Mo Cay, Giong Trom, Binh Dai, Ba Tri, Thanh Phu.
Ethnic groups: Viet (Kinh), Khmer, Hoa, Tay

Geography

Ben Tre is situated in Mekong Delta. It shares its border with Tiengiang in the north, Vinhlong in the west and south - west, and Travinh in the south. It has 60km seashore. The four main rivers are Tiengiang, Ba Lai, Ham Luong, and Co Chien. They create Bao, Minh, and An Hoa islets.The topography is flat with sand dunes and fields. Though rivers surrounding the province, water transportation is very available.
Climate: It is moon soon climate. The rainy season lasts from May to October. The dry season lasts from December to April next year. The annual average temperature varies between 26 and 27ºC. The annual average rainfall is 1,250mm - 1,500mm.

Tourism and Economy

Having complex network of rivers and canals, Ben Tre has advantage to develop ecotourism with many green fruit gardens. Ben Tre is the granary of Mekong Delta. There are agriculture productions such as rice, corn, pineapple, custard-apple, star apple, durian, mango, longan, and many more. Industrial trees are tobacco, sugar-cane, and cotton. Especially, Ben Tre is homeland of coconut. It is known with Ben Tre coconut candy, My Long Cai Mon flower and ornamental plant.
Bentre is well known as poet Nguyen Dinh Chieu’s motherland. Other popular places are My Hoa Bird Reserve, Con Phung (Hillock of the Coconut Religion), Vam Ho Bird Sanctuary, Vien Minh Pagoda.

Transportation

Bentre is 14km from Mytho, and 85km from Ho Chi Minh City. National Highway No. 60 and 57 link to Travinh and Tiengiang provinces in turn. Bentre is considered as island province accessible by ferry from Mytho. Tourist can visit Bentre by high-speech ship for 5 people.

 

Source: Vietnam Administration of Tourism

 

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