Geography

Located on Mekong River Delta, TraVinh Province borders BenTre, VinhLong provinces on the north, SocTrang Province on the west, and East Sea on the east with 65km seaside.

Topography includes coastal plain, alluvial deposits, hundreds of mounds and sand caves, a complex network of rivers and canals.

TraVinh is on tropical monsoon region. The weather is hot around the year. The dry season lasts from December to April. The rainy season is between May and November. Annual average temperature is 26șC.

Tourism and Economy

Surrounded by Tien and Hau rives and long coast, TraVinh's economy base on agriculture, aquaculture, fish and shrimp breeding. The province is covered by verdant plants in garden village along bank of river.

BaOm Pond is an attraction of TraVinh. It is surrounded by hillocks and many old sao and dau trees with odd shape of roots. In the afternoon, flocks of birds perch on the trees and make this area exciting and noisy.

There are 140 pagodas of Khmer, 50 pagodas of Viet (Kinh) and 5 pagodas of Hoa. The famous ones include Ang, Sam-rong-ek, Co, Hang. Co Pagoda is home of thousands of birds including storks, cong coc and pigeons.

Transportation

TraVinh Town is 66km from VinhLong, 205km from HoChiMinh City, 110km from BenTre, Mytho. There are National Highways No.53, 54, 60 linking the districts of TraVinh and neighbor provinces.