Bạc Liêu

Bạc Liêu is a former provincial city and capital of the former Bạc Liêu Province in the Mekong Delta region in southern Vietnam. It is a medium-sized town with a population of 156,110 in 2019, and the former name of the city is Minh Hải. According to the Vietnamese Wikipedia article, the city borders the town of Vĩnh Châu in Sóc Trăng Province to the east, Hòa Bình district to the west, Vĩnh Lợi district to the north and the sea, called the Biển Đông in Vietnamese, to the south. Its terrain is flat and low, sloping from the northwest to the southeast, with an average height of about 0.2 to 0.8 metres, and it is cut by many ponds, lakes, rice fields and shrimp-farming ponds divided by ditches, which suits agriculture. The area north of National Route 1 is lower, at 0.2 to 0.3 metres, and the area south of it, where discontinuous sea sand dunes form higher ground along the coast, stands at 0.4 to 0.8 metres.