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Key facts
- Country
- Vietnam
- Region
- Mekong Delta
- Capital
- Sóc Trăng
- People s council chair
- Hồ Thị Cẩm Đào
- People s committee chair
- Trần Văn Lâu
- Total
- 3,298.20 km (1,273.44 sq mi)
- Density
- 516.429/km (1,337.54/sq mi)
- Ethnicities
- Vietnamese (64.83%), Khmer , Hoa
- Time zone
- UTC+7 (ICT)
- Iso 3166 code
- VN-64
- Hdi 2020
- 0.668 , ( 54th )
- Website
- www .soctrang .gov .vn
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Encyclopedic overview
Sóc Trăng (Khmer: ខេត្តឃ្លាំង, lit. 'Land of Depositories') was a former province in the Mekong Delta of Southern Vietnam, with its capital in Sóc Trăng. The province occupies an area of 3,298.20 km (1,273.44 mi) and has a population of approximately 1,213,400.
From June 12, 2025, Sóc Trăng province (with Hậu Giang province) was merged into Cần Thơ.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sóc Trăng” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.