BAC LIEU

Bac Lieu Province situated in the Mekong River Delta. It shares its border with Can Tho City and Soc Trang Province to the north, the East Sea to the south, Ca Mau and Kien Giang provinces to the west. Bac Lieu has many large rice paddies and fertile land, which make a good condition for fruit tree planting.The weather is divided into two seasons: rainy and dry seasons. The annual average temperature is 240C.

Bac Lieu province was set up on 20 December, 1899 after split from Ha Tien province, consisting of 7 areas: Long Thuy, Quan Xuyen, Quan Long, Quan An, Thanh Hoa, Thanh Hung and Long Thoi.
Then Vietnam authorities devided Bac Lieu province into two provinces: Bac Lieu and An Xuyen. The later Bac Lieu consisted of 4 districts as Gia Rai, Phuoc Long, Vinh Loi and Vinh Chau, 19 communes and 218 hamlets, and its population was 76,630 people in 1965.