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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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Lâm Đồng Province
Lâm Đồng is a southernmost mountainous province in the Central Highlands region, the Central of Vietnam. It borders Khánh Hòa and Ninh Thuận to the east, Đồng Nai to the southwest, Bình Thuận to the southeast, Đắk Lắk to the north, and Đắk Nông to the northwest.

Lâm Đồng is the only Central Highlands province which does not share its western border with neither Laos nor Cambodia.

Name

Its name Lâm Đồng from Daàm-ròng in K'ho language, what means "the big river", now Đồng Nai River.

Administrative divisions

Lâm Đồng is subdivided into 12 district-level sub-divisions:

Second-tier
subdivisions 		Area
(km) 		Third-tier subdivisions
Ward Township Commune
Bảo Lộc city 232.20 6 5
Da Lat city 394.64 12 4
Bảo Lâm District 1465.00 1 13
Cát Tiên District 427.20 2 9
Đạ Huoai District 494.40 2 8
Đạ Tẻh District 527.90 1 10
Đam Rông District 892.20 2 8
Di Linh District 1614.64 1 18
Đơn Dương District 611.56 1 8
Đức Trọng District 901.80 1 14
Lạc Dương District 1312.33 1 5
Lâm Hà District 979.52 2 14

They are further subdivided into 12 commune-level towns (or townlets), 118 communes, and 18 wards.

Economy

The economy is based largely on agriculture, with tea, coffee and vegetables being the main agricultural products. Lâm Đồng province is also famous for its main city - Đà Lạt (Lâm Đồng attracted 8,65 million tourists in 2023).

The GDP of Lâm Đồng was nearly US$3 billion in 2020.

In the Provincial Competitiveness Index 2020, Lâm Đồng is ranked 15 out of 63 provinces in Vietnam.

Attractions

References

  1. ^ Biểu số 4.4: Hiện trạng sử dụng đất vùng Tây Nguyên năm 2022 [Table 4.4: Current land use status in the Central Highlands in 2022] (PDF) (Decision 3048/QĐ-BTNMT) (in Vietnamese). Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (Vietnam). 18 October 2023. – the data in the report are in hectares, rounded to integers
  2. ^ "Tình hình kinh tế, xã hội Lâm Đồng năm 2018". Cục Thống kê tỉnh Lâm Đồng. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
  3. ^ "Human Development Index by province(*) by Cities, provincies and Year". General Statistics Office of Vietnam. Retrieved September 28, 2024.
  4. ^ dựng, Báo Xây (2024-02-26). "Lâm Đồng: Đặt mục tiêu đón 9,7 triệu lượt khách du lịch năm 2024". Báo Xây dựng (in Vietnamese). Retrieved 2024-11-05.
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