Chợ Mới district, An Giang province

This article is about the rural district in An Giang Province. For other places named Chợ Mới, see Chợ Mới.

Chợ Mới is a rural district (huyện) of An Giang province in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam. Chợ Mới is the district with the largest population in An Giang province. As of 2019, the district had a population of 307,981.^[1][2] The district covers 355 km². The district's capital lies at Chợ Mới.^[2]

Chợ Mới district Huyện Chợ Mới
District
Seal
Location in An Giang province
Country	Vietnam
Province	An Giang
Capital	Chợ Mới
Population  (2019)
• Total	307,981
Time zone	UTC+07:00 (Indochina Time)

In addition to the district capital Chợ Mới, there are two other urban subdivisions, Mỹ Luông Town and Hội An Town. The rural communes are: Kiến An, Kiến Thành, Mỹ Hội Đông, Nhơn Mỹ, Long Giang, Long Điền A, Long Điền B, Tân Mỹ, Mỹ Hiệp, Bình Phước Xuân, Long Kiến, An Thạch Trung, Hòa Bình and Hoà An. The district is heavily criss-crossed by waterways in the delta, causing the district to consist of small islands. Hòa Hảo, Cao Đài, Protestantism and Roman Catholicism are the main religions.^[3]

References

1. "Chợ Mới (District, An Giang, Vietnam) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map and Location". www.citypopulation.de. Retrieved 2024-02-07.
2. "Districts of Vietnam". Statoids. Retrieved 13 March 2009.
3. Sergei A. Blagov Caodaism: Vietnamese Traditionalism and Its Leap Into Modernity 2001 Page 67 "In 1928 Lẻ Van Trung persuaded Nguyễn Van Ca, a district chief of Chợ Mới, to join the new religion. Good luck charmsr̉ religious pictures and prayer books were sold. Nguyễn Van Ca helped and more than 3,000 Conversions were made, ..."

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