25 March 2020 | Author/Destination: Asia / Asien | Rubric: General
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Cần Thơ is the
fourth-largest city in Vietnam, and the largest city in the
Mekong Delta. It is noted for its
floating markets,
rice paper-making village, and picturesque rural
canals. It had a population of 1.2 million as of 2011, and is located on the south bank of the
Hau River, a
distributary of the
Mekong River. In 2007, about 50 people died when the
Cần Thơ Bridge collapsed, causing Vietnam’s worst engineering disaster. In 2011,
Can Tho International Airport opened.
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