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Da Lat

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Da Lat , city (1989 pop. 87,136), S Vietnam, in the central highlands, alt. c.5,000 ft (1,520 m). Developed by the French as a health resort and hunting center, it is a modern city surrounded by mountains that rise to 7,380 ft (2,249 m). Coffee, tea, tobacco, and temperate-zone vegetables are commercially grown. Da Lat is linked by highway with Ho Chi Minh City and is on a branch rail line from the coastal city of Phan Rang. It has an airport. In the city are a college (founded 1976) and the Ethnic Minority Museum. Author not available, DA LAT. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth... Read more
Đà Lat

Đà Lat, Vietnam Founded in 1912 by the French as a hill station, it was named after the River Da, now called the Cam Ly, and the Lat hill tribe. Đà itself can mean ‘river’, ‘water’, or ‘land’ and thus the name means the ...

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Vietnam

Vietnam A country in south-east Asia, shaped like an ‘S’, bordering on China on the north and Laos and Cambodia on the west, and having long east and south coasts on the South China Sea.

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In the north of Vietnam the Red and Black rivers flow from forested mountains ...

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