Vị Thanh

Vị Thanh is a provincial city and also the capital city of the former Hậu Giang Province in Vietnam, now merged with Cần Thơ. Formerly it was the capital town of Chương Thiện province in South Vietnam, and in 2004 it became the capital of Hậu Giang Province. It has an industrial zone of 880,000 square metres, and is reached by National Highway 61, which leads to National Road 1 and on to Cần Thơ, and by canal and river connections to the Hậu River. It is the second biggest city of Hậu Giang, after Ngã Bảy became a city in 2020. The Vietnamese Wikipedia article places it in the southwest of the province, 240 kilometres southwest of Ho Chi Minh City and 60 kilometres from Cần Thơ along National Road 61, bordered by Vị Thủy and Long Mỹ districts and by Gò Quao and Giồng Riềng districts of Kiên Giang, and calls it the City west of the Hậu River, a young city beside the Xà No canal.