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Encyclopedia > Lai Chau Province

Lai-Chau (Vietnamese: Lai Châu) is a province in northwest Vietnam. Administrative Divisions of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam The country of Vietnam is divided into fifty-nine provinces (known in Vietnamese as tỉnh, from Chinese 省 shÄ›ng). ...

  • Area: 7 365 square kilometres (almost twice the size of Rhode Island, United States of America).
  • Population: Approximately 230,000 people.
  • Major Ethnic Groups: Thai, Hmong, Viet (Kinh), Giay, Dao.
  • Principle City: Lai Chau Town (Population c.55,000)
  • Districts: Phong Tho, Tam Duong, Muong Te, Sin Ho, Than Uyen
  • Communes: Muong Lay district, Le Loi quarter of Lai Chau Town, Than Uyen.
  • Major Economic Resources: Forestry/timber products.
  • Annual Average Temperature: 23 degrees Celsius.
  • Annual Average Rainfall: 2.5 m.



Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... State nickname: The Ocean State, Little Rhody Other U.S. States Capital Providence Largest city Providence Governor Donald Carcieri (R) Official languages None Area 4,005 km² (50th)  - Land 2,709 km²  - Water 1,296 km² (32. ... The Hmong, also known as Miao (Chinese: è‹—: Miáo; Vietnamese: Mèo or Hmông; Thai: แม้ว (Maew) or ม้ง (Mong)), are an Asian ethnic group speaking the Hmong language, whose homeland is in the mountainous regions of southern China (especially Guizhou) that cross into northern Southeast Asia (northern Vietnam and Laos). ... Categories: Vietnamese people | Ethnicity stubs ... Categories: Vietnamese people | Ethnicity stubs ... Dao or DAO has several meanings: Dao is another spelling of the Chinese religious character Tao. ... The degree Celsius (°C or ℃ (Unicode 0x2103)) is a unit of temperature named after the Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius (1701–1744), who first proposed a similar system in 1742. ...

 
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Doctors leaving remote provinces (637 words)
LAI CHAU— Healthcare professionals in the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau say meagre salaries and backward practices are leading them to seek other employment.
Though a recent report by the Lai Chau Health Department found 85 per cent of hamlets and villages in the province have staffed clinics, the report failed to mention how many of the employees at those clinics were planning to quit.
In Lai Chau Province, a doctor must promise that a treatment or surgery will be successful or they cannot perform it.
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