| Lâm Đồng | |||||
| Type: | Province | ||||
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| Coordinates: | 11.95°N 134°W | ||||
| Subdivision Type: | Country | ||||
| Subdivision Type1: | Region | ||||
| Subdivision Name1: | Central Highlands | ||||
| Seat Type: | Capital | ||||
| Seat: | Đà Lạt | ||||
| Leader Title: | People's Council Chair | ||||
| Leader Title1: | People's Committee Chair | ||||
| Area Footnotes: | [1] | ||||
| Area Total Km2: | 9781.20 | ||||
| Population Total: | 1,845,000 | ||||
| Population As Of: | 2023 | ||||
| Population Density Km2: | auto | ||||
| Demographics Type1: | Demographics | ||||
| Demographics1 Title1: | Ethnicities | ||||
| Demographics1 Info1: | Vietnamese, Cơ Ho, Mạ, Nùng | ||||
| Demographics Type2: | GDP[2] | ||||
| Demographics2 Title1: | Total | ||||
| Demographics2 Info1: | VND 78.433 trillion US$ 3.406 billion | ||||
| Blank1 Name: | HDI (2020) | ||||
| Blank1 Info: | 0.715[3] (28th) | ||||
| Timezone1: | ICT | ||||
| Utc Offset1: | +7 | ||||
| Area Code Type: | Calling code | ||||
| Area Code: | 63 | ||||
| Iso Code: | VN-35 | ||||
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code | ||||
| Postal Code: | 66xxx | ||||
Lâm Đồng is a southernmost mountainous province in the Central Highlands region, the Central of Vietnam. It borders Khánh Hòa and Ninh Thuận to the east, Đồng Nai to the southwest, Bình Thuận to the southeast, Đắk Lắk to the north, and Đắk Nông to the northwest.
Lâm Đồng is the only Central Highlands province which does not share its western border with neither Laos nor Cambodia.
Its name Lâm Đồng from Daàm-ròng in K'ho language, what means "the big river", now Đồng Nai River.
Lâm Đồng is subdivided into 12 district-level sub-divisions:
| Second-tier subdivisions | Area (km2) | Third-tier subdivisions | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ward | Township | Commune | |||
| Bảo Lộc city | 232.20 | 6 | 5 | ||
| Da Lat city | 394.64 | 12 | 4 | ||
| 1465.00 | 1 | 13 | |||
| 427.20 | 2 | 9 | |||
| 494.40 | 2 | 8 | |||
| 527.90 | 1 | 10 | |||
| 892.20 | 2 | 8 | |||
| 1614.64 | 1 | 18 | |||
| 611.56 | 1 | 8 | |||
| 901.80 | 1 | 14 | |||
| 1312.33 | 1 | 5 | |||
| 979.52 | 2 | 14 | |||
They are further subdivided into 12 commune-level towns (or townlets), 118 communes, and 18 wards.
The economy is based largely on agriculture, with tea, coffee and vegetables being the main agricultural products. Lâm Đồng province is also famous for its main city - Đà Lạt (Lâm Đồng attracted 8,65 million tourists in 2023).[4] The GDP of Lâm Đồng was nearly US$3 billion in 2020.
In the Provincial Competitiveness Index 2020, Lâm Đồng is ranked 15 out of 63 provinces in Vietnam.