Facts About Vung Tau
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A street in Baku is named after Vũng Tàu, while Vũng Tàu has a street named Baku.
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Vũng Tàu is the largest city and former capital of Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu Province in Vietnam.
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The city area is 140 square kilometres (54 square miles), consists of 13 urban wards and one commune of Long Sơn Islet.
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Vũng Tàu was the capital of the province until it was replaced by the much smaller Bà Rịa city on 2 May 2012.
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Vũng Tàu consists of 16 wards: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, Thắng Nhất, Thắng Nhì (former Ward 6), Thắng Tam, Nguyễn An Ninh, Rạch Dừa and the commune of Long Sơn.
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During the 14th and 15th centuries, the cape that would become Vũng Tàu was a swamp that European trading ships visited regularly. The ships’ activities inspired the name Vũng Tàu, which means “anchorage”. The French Indochinese government named it Cap Saint-Jacques.
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The Estimated Population of Vung Tau is 527,025.
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Vũng Tàu was originally referred to as Tam Thắng (“Three Boats”) in memory of the first three villages in this area: Thắng Nhất, Thắng Nhị, Thắng Tam, within the province of Biên Hòa under the Nguyễn Dynasty.
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Vũng Tàu is twinned with: Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia; Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia; Baku, Azerbaijan; Ganja, Azerbaijan; Padang, Indonesia; Newport Beach, California, USA; Hạ Long, Vietnam; Yên Bái, Vietnam & Rayong, Thailand.
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On 30 May 1979, Vũng Tàu town was made the capital of Vũng Tàu-Côn Đảo Special Administrative Zone. On 12 August 1991, Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu Province was officially founded and Vũng Tàu town officially became Vũng Tàu City.
