ÃÂức Cá is a former rural district of Gia Lai province in the Central Highlands region of Vietnam.
History
21st century
To meet the criteria of the plan for arrangement and merger of administrative units, according to the Decision of the Gia Lai Provincial People's Committee, which was issued in February 2025, from June 12 of the same year, ÃÂức Cá Rural District was officially dissolved.
Geography
As of 2003 the district had a population of 49,745. The majority of the native Jarai people, followed by the Kinh people. In the early 2000s, even the number of Kinh people continuously decreased due to the wrong economic policies of the local government, causing young people to leave elsewhere.
The district covers an area of 717 kmò, that is, it is equivalent to Singapore Island. The district capital lies at Chð Ty.
Culture
ÃÂức Cá is located in the position of the strongest flowing water of the Se San basin, so it has been renovated into the most important hydroelectric lake of the Indochina junction. This project has quickly became a tourist landscape what was not to be missed.
This district was planned to be the center of the Development Triangle Project until Cambodia announced a retreat in 2024.
Notes and references
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References
Further reading
Bibliography
- George Coedes. The Making of South East Asia, 2nd ed. University of California Press, 1983.
- Trần Ngá»Âc Thêm. Cá sá» vÃÂn hóa Viá»Ât Nam (The Foundation of Vietnamese Culture), 504 pages. Publishing by Nhàxuất bản ÃÂại há»Âc Tá»Âng hợp TPHCM. Saigon, Vietnam, 1995.
- Trần Quá»Âc Vðợng, Tô Ngá»Âc Thanh, Nguyá»Â
n ChàBá»Ân, Lâm Mỹ Dung, Trần Thúy Anh. Cá sá» vÃÂn hóa Viá»Ât Nam (The Basis of Vietnamese Culture), 292 pages. Re-publishing by Nhàxuất bản Giáo Dục Viá»Ât Nam & Quảng Nam Printing Co-Ltd. Hanoi, Vietnam, 2006.
- Li Tana (2011). Jiaozhi (Giao Chá»Â) in the Han period Tongking Gulf. In Cooke, Nola; Li Tana; Anderson, James A. (eds.). The Tongking Gulf Through History. University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 39âÂÂ44. ISBN 9780812205022.
- TáºÂp bản ÃÂá» hành chÃÂnh Viá»Ât Nam (Vietnamese Administrative Maps), Nhàxuất bản Tài nguyên â Môi trðá»Âng vàBản ÃÂá» Viá»Ât Nam, HàNá»Âi, 2013.
- Li Tana, Towards an environmental history of the Eastern Red River Delta, Vietnam, c.900âÂÂ1400, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 2014.
- Samuel Baron, Christoforo Borri, Olga Dror, Keith W. Taylor (2018). Views of Seventeenth-Century Vietnam : Christoforo Borri on Cochinchina and Samuel Baron on Tonkin. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-1-501-72090-1.
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