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Key facts
- Country
- Vietnam
- Region
- Northwest
- Type
- Province
- Body
- Điện Biên Provincial People's Council
- Chairman of people s council
- Lò Văn Sơn
- Chairman of people s committee
- Lê Thành Đô
- Total
- 9,539.93 km (3,683.39 sq mi)
- Density
- 70.5551/km (182.737/sq mi)
- M ng
- 38.12%
- Th i
- 35.69%
- Vietnamese
- 17.38%
- Kh m
- 3.30%
- Dao
- 1.11%
- Others
- 4.4%
- Province
- VND 15.750 trillion, US$ 0.684 billion
- Time zone
- UTC+7 ( ICT )
- Iso 3166 code
- VN-71
- Hdi 2020
- 0.618 , ( 29th )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- province of Vietnam
- Official name
- Điện Biên
- Demonym
- Người Điện Biên
- Country
- Vietnam
- Located in
- Vietnam
- Contains
- Tuần Giáo
- Capital
- Điện Biên Phủ
- Population
- 656700
- Area
- 9539.93
- Time zone
- UTC+07:00
- Shares border with
- Sơn La
- Official website
- www.dienbien.gov.vn
- Image
- Dien Bien Phu, statue.jpg
- Dialing code
- 023
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- Commons category
- Điện Biên
- topic's main category
- Category:Điện Biên province
- postal code
- 32000–32999
- inception
- 1909-06-28
- native label
- Điện Biên
- urban population
- 96670
- rural population
- 539250
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Encyclopedic overview
Điện Biên is a province in the Northwest region of Vietnam. It is bordered by Lai Châu to the northeast, Sơn La to the southeast, Pu'er City, Yunnan, China, to the northwest, and Phongsaly province in Laos to the west. The province covers an area of about 9,540 km (3,683 mi) and as of 2024 had a population of 656,700 people.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Điện Biên” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.