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Key facts
- Country
- Vietnam
- Region
- Mekong Delta
- Provincial capital
- Bến Tre
- Body
- Bến Tre provincial Party Committee
- People s council chair
- Hồ Thị Hoàng Yến ( Communist Party of Vietnam )
- People s committee chair
- Trần Ngọc Tam
- Total
- 2,379.70 km (918.81 sq mi)
- Density
- 694.833/km (1,799.61/sq mi)
- Demonym
- People of Bến Tre
- Ethnicities
- Vietnamese , Khmer , Hoa , Chăm
- Time zone
- UTC+7 ( ICT )
- Postal code
- 86xxx
- Area codes
- 75 (until 16 July 2017), 275 (from 17 June 2017)
- Iso 3166 code
- VN-50
- Hdi 2020
- 0.683 , ( 49th )
- Website
- www .bentre .gov .vn
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Bến Tre
- Country
- Vietnam
- Located in
- Vietnam
- Contains
- Giồng Trôm
- Capital
- Bến Tre
- Population
- 1298010
- Area
- 2379.70
- Elevation
- 2
- Time zone
- UTC+07:00
- Shares border with
- Vĩnh Long
- Official website
- www.bentre.gov.vn
- Image
- CaiMonVillage.jpg
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- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2025-06-12
- topic's main category
- Category:Bến Tre province
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Bến Tre province
- Commons category
- Ben Tre
- merged into
- Vĩnh Long
- urban population
- 133040
- rural population
- 1164960
- postal code
- 86000–86999
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Encyclopedic overview
Bến Tre was a former province of Vietnam. It was one of the country's southern provinces, and was situated in the Mekong Delta. It is also famous for its coconuts and the Coconut Religion nationwide. Disconnected from the mainland, the province lies mainly on 2 river islands. It has land borders only with Vĩnh Long Province, which occupies the western tip of the southern river island.
On June 12, 2025, Bến Tre was incorporated into Vĩnh Long province.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bến Tre” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.