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Bắc Kạn is a former province in Vietnam that no longer exists as a separate administrative division. It was merged with another province as part of Vietnam's administrative reorganization, though the specific details of when and with which province are not provided in the available information.
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Key facts
- Country
- Vietnam
- Region
- Northeast
- Capital
- Bắc Kạn
- Subdivision
- 1 city, 7 rural districts
- Type
- Province
- Body
- Bắc Kạn Provincial People's Council
- Chairman of people s council
- Phương Thị Thanh
- Chairman of people s committee
- Nguyễn Long Hải
- Province
- 4,853.25 km (1,873.85 sq mi)
- Density
- 75.2729/km (194.956/sq mi)
- Urban
- 70,000
- T y
- 52.58%
- Dao
- 17.86%
- Vietnamese
- 11.98%
- N ng
- 9.15%
- M ng
- 7.20%
- Others
- 1.23%
- Time zone
- UTC+7 ( ICT )
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- Vietnam
- Located in
- Vietnam
- Contains
- Na Rì
- Capital
- Bắc Kạn
- Population
- 324350
- Area
- 4859.96
- Elevation
- 233
- Time zone
- UTC+07:00
- Shares border with
- Thái Nguyên
- Official website
- backan.gov.vn
- Image
- Ba Be Lake 2.jpg
- Dialing code
- 281
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- category of associated people
- Category:People from Bắc Kạn province
- topic's main category
- Category:Bắc Kạn province
- Commons category
- Bắc Kạn
- language used
- Caolan
- urban population
- 73570
- rural population
- 250790
- postal code
- 23000–23999
- merged into
- Thái Nguyên
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2025-06-12
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Encyclopedic overview
Bắc Kạn, sometimes misspelled as Bắc Cạn, was a former province of Vietnam. It is located in the Northeast region, due north of the capital Hanoi.
Bắc Kạn is the only town of the province which is the capital of the province and is a municipality. The province covers an area of 4,859.96 km (1,876.44 mi) and as of 2019 it had a population of 313,905 people. It is a mountainous terrain with rich natural resources of minerals and forests. It has numerous mountains, rivers and lakes which are very scenic. Ba Bể National Park and Ba Bể Lake lie within its borders.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bắc Kạn” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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