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Mộc Hóa district

District in Mekong Delta, Vietnam From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Mộc Hóa is a rural district (huyện) of Long An province in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam.

Quick Facts Huyện Mộc Hóa, Country ...

In 1963 team A-414 Special Forces set up operations at Kien Tuong. In 1965 Seabee team 0503 upgraded the outpost to a B camp for team B-41. In 1966 the camp became home to the Mobile Strike Force(Mike Force) for IV Corps. MACV-SOG ran reconnaissance missions into Cambodia from there and the RVN army took over the base in 1970.

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Divisions

Since 2013, the district has been divided into seven communes:[1]

  1. Bình Phong Thạnh
  2. Tân Thành
  3. Tân Lập
  4. Bình Hòa Đông
  5. Bình Hòa Trung
  6. Bình Hòa Tây
  7. Bình Thạnh

In 2003 the district had a population of 67,753 and covered an area of 501 km².[2] The district capital was at the town also known as Mộc Hóa.[2] In 2013, the town of Mộc Hóa and the nearby communes of Bình Hiệp, Bình Tân, Thạnh Hưng [vi], Thạnh Trị and Tuyên Thạnh were separated to create the district-level town of Kiến Tường.[3] The headquarters of the new Mộc Hóa District were moved to Bình Phong Thạnh.

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Climate

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