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Trà Vinh province

Trà Vinh (Khmer: ព្រះត្រពាំង) was a former province in the Mekong Delta region of Southern Vietnam. The capital is Trà Vinh City. It was dissolved and merged with Vĩnh Long province on 12 June 2025.


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Seal | | Location of Trà Vinh within Vietnam | | Coordinates: .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}9°50′N 106°15′E / 9.833°N 106.250°E / 9.833; 106.250 | | Vietnam | | Mekong Delta | | Trà Vinh | | Lê Văn Hẳn | | Kim Ngọc Thái | | 2,390.77 km2 (923.08 sq mi) | | 1,285,108 | | 537.529/km2 (1,392.19/sq mi) | | Vietnamese (68.35%) Khmer (30.00%) Hoa (1.65%) | | VND 45.778 trillionUS$ 2.006 billion | | UTC+07:00 (ICT) | | 294 | | VN-51 | | 0.693(42th) | | www.travinh.gov.vn |

Trà Vinh (Khmer: ព្រះត្រពាំង) was a former province in the Mekong Delta region of Southern Vietnam. The capital is Trà Vinh City. It was dissolved and merged with Vĩnh Long province on 12 June 2025.

Trà Vang was an old name used for this area, a hinterland with a sparse population.

In 1825, the area of Trà Vinh was established by King Minh Mạng into Lạc Hóa district also known as chà-văng or chà-vinh.

In 1951, the name Vĩnh Trà appeared, a combination of Vĩnh from Vĩnh Long and Trà from Trà Vinh.

The name was changed again from Trà Vinh to Vĩnh Bình province in 1957.

In 1976, Cửu Long province came to be by merging Vĩnh Long province and Trà Vinh.

The name Trà Vinh comes from the Khmer name of the area ព្រះត្រពាំង Preah Trapeang, which means Sacred pond or Buddha's pond. The Vietnamese transliteration gave Trà Vang and later Trà Vinh.

Besides more than two thirds of Trà Vinh's population being Vietnamese, nearly a third of the population is Khmer Krom. Trà Vinh also has one of the largest ethnic Hoa (Chinese) communities in Vietnam (1.65%).

Trà Vinh is subdivided into nine district-level sub-divisions:

  • 7 districts:

  • 1 district-level town:

    • Duyên Hải
  • 1 provincial city:

    • Trà Vinh (capital)

They are further subdivided into 11 commune-level towns (or townlets), 85 communes, and nine wards.

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