BacLieu Province situated in the Mekong River Delta. It shares its border with CanTho City and SocTrang Province to the north, the East Sea to the south, CaMau and KienGiang provinces to the west. BacLieu has many large rice paddies and fertile land, which make a good condition for fruit tree planting.
Climate: the weather is divided into two seasons: rainy and dry seasons. The annual average temperature is 24șC.
Tourism and Economy
BacLieu Town is on side of BacLieu Canal, 10km from the sea. BacLieu residents grow rice, fruit trees, catch seafood and make salt.
BacLieu used to play importance role in exploitation and developing of French colonialists so that the province has existed several western-style villas and palaces.
Coming there, tourists have more knowledge about very rich and popular BacLieu Mandarins. And they can visit the BacLieu Bird Reserve, unforgettable taste longan gardens, VietHung old Tower, XiemCan Pagoda or discover mangrove cajeput forest.
Transportation
BacLieu is 280km from HoChiMinh City, 67km from CaMau, 50km from SocTrang, and 113km from CanTho. The National Highway No. 1A crosses the province and links to SocTrang and CaMau provinces.
