Gia Nghĩa

Gia Nghĩa is a former provincial city of Đắk Nông Province in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, on the main road north to Buôn Ma Thuột, which is 120 kilometres away. The Vietnamese Wikipedia article places it in the southwest of the Central Highlands and the south of the old province, on the Mơ Nông plateau at an average height of 600 metres above sea level, 225 kilometres from Ho Chi Minh City and 1,400 kilometres from Hanoi. It covers 284.11 square kilometres and had 63,046 people in 2019. Its terrain is broken by hills and streams, falling from north to south and from east to west, with National Highway 14 as its backbone and National Highway 28 linking it with Đà Lạt. Its climate is tropical monsoon, with a seven-month rainy season from April to October. Today the old city area is the wards of Đông Gia Nghĩa and Nam Gia Nghĩa and part of Bắc Gia Nghĩa in Lâm Đồng province.