Phú Quốc
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Phú Quốc
Thành phố Phú Quốc | |
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Phú Quốc City | |
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Calling code | 855 |
Website | phuquoc |
Phú Quốc (Vietnamese:
Its primary industries are fishing, agriculture, and a fast-growing tourism sector. Phú Quốc has achieved fast economic growth due to its current tourism boom. Many infrastructure projects have been carried out, including several five-star hotels and resorts. Phú Quốc International Airport is the hub connecting Phú Quốc with mainland Vietnam and other international destinations.
Since March 2014, Vietnam has allowed all foreign tourists to visit Phú Quốc visa-free for a period of up to 30 days.[2][3] By 2017, the government of Vietnam planned to set up a Special Administrative Region which covered Phú Quốc Island and its peripheral islets and upgrade it to a provincial city with special administration.
The historical
History
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The earliest Cambodian references to Phú Quốc (known as Koh Tral) are found in royal documents dated 1615[citation needed], however no one has offered compelling evidence that Khmers have ever had a substantial presence there, or that a state exercised authority. For many Khmers the case of Koh Tral is one of history imagined rather than remembered.[4]
Around 1680, Phú Quốc was part of the Principality of Hà Tiên, a maritime polity founded by Chinese merchant and explorer Mạc Cửu under the patronage of the Cambodian king.
Mạc Cửu later switched allegiance to the Nguyễn lords and recognized the authority of the Vietnamese sovereign.[4][5] He sent a tribute mission to the Nguyễn court in 1708, and in return received the title of Tong Binh of Hà Tiên[6] and the noble title Marquess Cửu Ngọc (Vietnamese: Cửu Ngọc hầu).
Mạc Cửu died in 1736, his son Mạc Thiên Tứ (Mo Shilin) succeeded. The Cambodian army attempted to liberate Hà Tiên in 1739 but was defeated. From then on, Cambodia did not try to retake Hà Tiên and it enjoyed full independence from Cambodia thereafter.[7]
Mạc Thiên Tứ's reign saw the golden age of Hà Tiên. In 1758, Hà Tiên established
The
The British envoy John Crawfurd en route to Siam from Singapore in 1822 made a stop at Phú Quốc which he transcribed as Phu-kok in March. His entry is as follows:
The place which we had now visited is called by the Cochinchinese, Phu-kok, and by the Siamese Koh-dud... In the Kambojan language it is called Koh-trol... It is the largest island on the east coast of the Gulf of Siam, being by our reckoning not less than thirty-four miles in length. It is commonly bold high land, the highest hills rising to seven or eight hundred feet. A few spots here and there on the coasts only are inhabited, -the rest being, as usual, covered with a great forest, which we were told, contained abundance of deer, hogs, wild buffaloes, and oxen, but no leopards or tigers... The inhabitants of Phu-kok were described to us as amounting to four to five thousand, all of the true Cochinchinese race, with the exception of a few occasional Chinese sojourners. They grow no species of corn and their husbandry is confined to a few coarse fruits and esculent green vegetables and farinaceous roots..."[10]
Western records in 1856 again mentioned the island: "... King Ang Duong (of Cambodia) apprize Mr. de Montigny, French envoy in visit to Bangkok, through the intermediary of Bishop Miche, his intention to yield Phú Quốc to France."[11] Such a proposition aimed to create a military alliance with France to avoid the threat of Vietnam on Cambodia. The proposal did not receive an answer from the French.[12] An 1856 publication by The Nautical Magazine describes Phú Quốc to still be part of Cambodia even though it was occupied by the Cochinchinese. The quote from the publication is:
The whole of the island is thickly wooded, and only the shore parts appear to be inhabited, principally by Cochinchinese, for although in the empire of Cambodia it has been seized upon by the unscrupulous inhabitants of Cancao."[13]
While the war between
In 1939, for administrative purposes, Governor General of French Indochina, Jules Brévié, drew a line demarcating maritime boundary between Cambodia and Cochinchina; and Phú Quốc remained under Cochinchina administration. After the Geneva Accords, in 1954, Cochinchina's sovereignty was handed over to Vietnam.[14]
After
In 1967, the Vietnamese and Cambodian government accepted the "Brévié Line" as the maritime border. Later on, Sihanouk renewed his claim on Koh Tral. The Vietnamese also abandoned their previous acceptance of the Brevie Line.[4]
From 1953 to 1975, the island housed South Vietnam's largest prisoner camp (40,000 in 1973), known as Phú Quốc Prison.[16]
On May 1, 1975, a squad of Khmer Rouge soldiers raided and took Phú Quốc, but Vietnam soon recaptured it. This was to be the first of a series of incursions and counter-incursions that would escalate to the Cambodian–Vietnamese War in 1979. Cambodia dropped its claims to Phú Quốc in 1976.[17] But the bone of contention involving the island between the governments of the two countries continued, as both have a historical claim to it and the surrounding waters. A July 1982 agreement between Vietnam and The People's Republic of Kampuchea ostensibly settled the dispute; however, the island is still the object of irredentist sentiments.[18]
In 1999 the Cambodian representative to the Vietnam-Cambodia Joint Border Commission affirmed the state’s acceptance of the Brevie Line and Vietnamese sovereignty over Phú Quốc, a position reported to and accepted by the National Assembly.[4]
Geography
Phú Quốc lies south of the
Phú Quốc Island is mainly composed of sedimentary rocks from the Mesozoic and Cenozoic age, including heterogeneous conglomerate composition, layering thick, quartz pebbles, silica, limestone, rhyolite and felsite. The Mesozoic rocks are classified in Phú Quốc Formation (K pq). The Cenozoic sediments are classified in formations of Long Toàn (middle - upper Pleistocene), Long Mỹ (upper Pleistocene), Hậu Giang (lower - middle Holocene), upper Holocene sediments, and undivided Quaternary (Q).[19]
Administrative units
The city of Phú Quốc is officially divided into nine commune-level sub-divisions, including two urban wards (
Economy
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Phú Quốc is famous for its two traditional products: fish sauce and black pepper.[20] The rich fishing grounds offshore provides the anchovy catch from which the sauce is made. As widely agreed among the Vietnamese people, the best fish sauce comes from Phú Quốc. The island name is coveted and abused in the fish sauce industry that local producers have been fighting for the protection of its appellation of origin.[21] Pepper is cultivated everywhere on the island, especially at Gành Dầu and Cửa Dương communes.[22] The pearl farming activity began more than 20 years ago when Australian and Japanese experts arrived to develop the industry with advanced technology. Some Vietnamese pearl farms were established at that time including Quốc An.[23]
Tourism plays an important role in the economy, with the beaches being the main attraction. Phú Quốc was served by
Many domestic and international projects related to tourism have been carried out, including the latest direct flights from Bangkok to Phú Quốc by Bangkok Airways, which could make Phú Quốc a new tourist hub in Southeast Asia.
With the combination of
Climate
The island's monsoonal sub-equatorial climate is characterized by distinct rainy (April to November) and dry seasons (December to March). As is common in regions with this climate type, there is some rain even in the dry season. The annual rainfall is high, averaging 3,029 mm (9.938 ft). In the northern mountains up to 4,000 mm (13 ft) has just recorded. April and May are the hottest months, with temperatures reaching 35 °C (95 °F).
Climate data for Phú Quốc | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Record high °C (°F) | 35.1 (95.2) |
35.3 (95.5) |
38.1 (100.6) |
37.5 (99.5) |
37.0 (98.6) |
34.0 (93.2) |
33.4 (92.1) |
33.4 (92.1) |
33.3 (91.9) |
34.5 (94.1) |
33.2 (91.8) |
34.6 (94.3) |
38.1 (100.6) |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 30.6 (87.1) |
31.1 (88.0) |
32.1 (89.8) |
32.5 (90.5) |
31.6 (88.9) |
30.4 (86.7) |
29.8 (85.6) |
29.6 (85.3) |
29.5 (85.1) |
30.2 (86.4) |
30.7 (87.3) |
30.3 (86.5) |
30.7 (87.3) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | 25.9 (78.6) |
26.6 (79.9) |
27.8 (82.0) |
28.5 (83.3) |
28.6 (83.5) |
28.0 (82.4) |
27.6 (81.7) |
27.5 (81.5) |
27.2 (81.0) |
26.8 (80.2) |
26.9 (80.4) |
26.3 (79.3) |
27.3 (81.1) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 23.0 (73.4) |
23.7 (74.7) |
24.9 (76.8) |
25.6 (78.1) |
25.8 (78.4) |
25.6 (78.1) |
25.2 (77.4) |
25.2 (77.4) |
25.0 (77.0) |
24.5 (76.1) |
24.4 (75.9) |
23.4 (74.1) |
24.7 (76.5) |
Record low °C (°F) | 16.0 (60.8) |
16.0 (60.8) |
18.5 (65.3) |
21.0 (69.8) |
22.1 (71.8) |
21.2 (70.2) |
21.7 (71.1) |
21.6 (70.9) |
22.0 (71.6) |
20.8 (69.4) |
16.0 (60.8) |
17.1 (62.8) |
16.0 (60.8) |
Average rainfall mm (inches) | 27.7 (1.09) |
27.2 (1.07) |
61.0 (2.40) |
148.2 (5.83) |
280.8 (11.06) |
381.9 (15.04) |
419.2 (16.50) |
485.6 (19.12) |
473.6 (18.65) |
354.2 (13.94) |
163.5 (6.44) |
59.1 (2.33) |
2,881.9 (113.46) |
Average rainy days | 4.6 | 3.7 | 6.6 | 11.7 | 19.0 | 21.0 | 22.5 | 23.6 | 22.8 | 21.5 | 13.8 | 6.2 | 177.1 |
Average relative humidity (%)
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75.9 | 77.4 | 77.5 | 80.2 | 83.2 | 85.2 | 85.9 | 86.5 | 87.5 | 86.3 | 79.5 | 73.8 | 81.6 |
Mean monthly sunshine hours | 247.5 | 232.4 | 256.5 | 246.4 | 195.8 | 148.0 | 146.9 | 137.1 | 137.9 | 169.8 | 210.1 | 240.1 | 2,373.1 |
Source: Vietnam Institute for Building Science and Technology[29] |
Protections
Phú Quốc has both a terrestrial
Phú Quốc National Park was established in 2001 as an upgrade of a former conservation zone. The park covers 336.57 km2 (129.95 sq mi) of the northern part of the island.[30][31]
Phú Quốc Marine Protected Area, or just Phú Quốc MPA, was established in 2007 at the northern and southern end of the island and covers 187 km2 (72 sq mi) of marine area. The sea around Phú Quốc is one of the richest fishing grounds in all of Vietnam, and the aim of the protected area is to secure
Gallery
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Suối Tranh Cascades
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Phú Quốc's sandy beaches
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Fishermen's village
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Bãi Sao beach
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Shellfish for sale by the roadside
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Phú Quốc coastline
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Phú Quốc coastline
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Fishing boat with its collection of basket boats (thuyền thúng)
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Manufacture of fish sauce
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A beach in Phú Quốc
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A bridge on Dương Đông river
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Dương Đông river's mouth
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Hotel in Phú Quốc
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Hotel in Phú Quốc
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Dương Đông market
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Fish stalls at Dương Đông market
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Sùng Hưng pagoda
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Bãi Sao beach
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Dương Đông river
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Nguyễn Trung Trực's temple
See also
References
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- ^ Community cleanup efforts and local government commitment underway to tackle the mounting plastic waste issue on Phu Quoc Island