Kiên Giang Province


Kiên Giang is a province of Vietnam, located in the Mekong Delta region of southern Vietnam. It is known for fishing and rice farming. The provincial capital is Rạch Giá, from Ho Chi Minh City. Kiên Giang's area is about 6,299 km² and its population is about 1,634,043, of which 22 percent live in urban areas.
Kiên Giang is bordered with An Giang Province in the northeast, Cần Thơ and Hậu Giang provinces in the east, Bạc Liêu Province in the southeast and Cà Mau Province in the south, and Kampot Province of Cambodia in the west, and the Gulf of Thailand in the southwest.
According to survey results on April 1, 2009, Kiên Giang province's population is 1,683,149 people.

History

In 1774, Lord Nguyen Phuc Dang Khoat divided into 12 in the palace, but still leave the town of Hà Tiên, Mac Thien Tich style as Admiral rule.
By the reign of Minh Mạng, in 1832, Hà Tiên had become one of the six provinces of the south.
In 1876, Southern France divided into four big administrative regions, each region divided into smaller administrative sub-district or county take action, Hà Tiên, the former being divided into two particle parameters are Hà Tiên and Rạch Giá. From January 1, 1900 two-particle parameters of Hà Tiên and Rạch Giá became provinces of Hà Tiên and Rạch Giá.
Hà Tiên and Rạch Giá were later merged into Kiên Giang. Kiên Giang had seven districts at the time: Hà Tiên, Kiên An, Kiên Bình, Kiên Lương, Kiên Tân, Kiên Thành and Phú Quốc.
Kiên Giang is the home city of Gia Linh Dao.

Geography

General

Kiên Giang is subdivided into 13 district-level sub-divisions and 2 cities:
They are further subdivided into 12 commune-level towns, 118 communes, and 15 wards.