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Bạc Liêu
Provincial city in Vietnam From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Bạc Liêu (Vietnamese: [ɓàːk liəw] ⓘ) 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.[1] The former name of the city is Vĩnh Lợi.[2]
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History
The name Bạc Liêu is based on the Chinese pronunciation of a Khmer name[3] (Pol Leav ពលលាវ in Khmer). In the 1950s the area was a center of Huỳnh Phú Sổ's Hòa Hảo religion after Sổ was released there.[4]
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Bạc Liêu has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw).
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