Tịnh Biên
Town in An Giang, Vietnam / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tịnh Biên is a district-level town (thị xã) of An Giang province in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam.
Thị xã Tịnh Biên
Thị xã Tịnh Biên | |
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Tịnh Biên town | |
Country | Vietnam |
Province | An Giang |
Seat | Tịnh Biên ward |
Area | |
• Total | 136.91 sq mi (354.59 km2) |
Population (2022) | |
• Total | 143,098 |
• Density | 1,040/sq mi (403/km2) |
Time zone | UTC+07:00 (Indochina Time) |
As of 2022, the town had a population of 143,098.[1] The town seat lies at Tịnh Biên ward.
The Tịnh Biên frontier market is located here.
Tịnh Biên is about 125 km from Phnom Penh along National Highway 2 (CPC). It is a common route used by tourists between Cambodia and Vietnam. The Khmer population is relatively high, especially in the communes of An Cư, Tân Lợi, An Hảo, Giao Va and Vĩnh Trung. Tịnh Biên district is connected by Highway 91 to Cần Thơ which also connects to Highway 1. and Highway 55 to Hà Tiên, about 80 km.
A village in the district was depicted in Robin Moore's fiction book The Green Berets; chapter 1 described a real-life battle at Tịnh Biên during the Vietnam War in which all of the members of a United States Army Special Forces detachment were injured during the fighting.[2]
Due to its proximity to the border with Cambodia, tobacco and electronic goods are smuggled in Tịnh Biên.