Tân An
Tân An
Thành phố Tân An | |
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Long An | |
| Area | |
| • Total | 81.94 km2 (31.64 sq mi) |
| Population (2018) | |
| • Total | 215,250 |
| • Density | 2,277.4/km2 (5,898/sq mi) |
Tân An is the
Tân An is in the south-west of Ho Chi Minh City, 47 km away from the city centre and bordered to the north by Thủ Thừa District, to the east by Tân Trụ District and Châu Thành District and to the west and south-west by Tiền Giang Province. Ward 1 is the economic, political and cultural center of the city.
Tân An is the political, cultural, economic, scientific and technological center of Long An province. The township is in the development of the Southern Key Economic Region, and the economic gateway to the provinces of the Mekong River Delta, with the main river and road traffic, National Highway 1A, National Highway 62 and Vàm Cỏ Tây river, flowing through the center.[1][2]
History
Before 1945
Management of rivers in the Mekong Delta began to develop the area in 1705, bringing commerce to the
1945
Following the August Revolution in Hanoi the local communists seized power in the south in Tân An on 21 August 1945.[4]
Vietnam War
Tân An was the headquarters of the 3rd Brigade,
References
- ^ (Vietnamese) Introduction on Tan An
- ^ James B. Hendry Rural Vietnam: The Small World of Khanh Hau 2009 - Page 144 "... last six or eight years has been the substantial growth in the number of local rice mills. In the vicinity of Khanh Hau, as an example, small rice mills have sprung up in all the neighboring villages, large mills have gone up in the town of Tan An ..."
- ^ Nadine Reis Tracing and Making the State: Policy Practices and Domestic Water ... 2012 Page 34 "While the natural floodways in the eastern part of the delta already began to change in 1705 with the construction of the Bao Dinh Canal between the Tien River at My Tho (Tien Giang province) and the Vam Co Tay River at Tan An (Long An province), the middle and western parts of the delta remained largely free from human impact ..."
- ^ R. B. B. Smith, Beryl Williams Communist Indochina 2012 "Having hesitated during a series of secret meetings of an Uprising Committee (formed by Tran Van Giau as early as the 16th), the Communist leadership decided on 21 August to seize power first in the provincial town of Tan An the following ..."
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Districts of the Mekong Delta | ||
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| Cần Thơ city |  | |
| An Giang province |
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| Bạc Liêu province | ||
| Bến Tre province | ||
| Cà Mau province | ||
| Đồng Tháp province | ||
| Hậu Giang province |
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| Kiên Giang province | ||
| Long An province | ||
| Sóc Trăng province | ||
| Tiền Giang province |
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| Trà Vinh province | ||
| Vĩnh Long province | ||
※ denotes provincial seat. | ||