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Key facts
- Country
- Laos
- Capital
- Muang Phôn-Hông
- Total
- 15,610 km (6,030 sq mi)
- Density
- 29.61/km (76.68/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+7 ( ICT )
- Iso 3166 code
- LA-VI
- Hdi 2022
- 0.633 , medium · 5th
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- province of Laos
- Country
- Laos
- Located in
- Laos
- Capital
- Phōnhōng
- Population
- 388833
- Area
- 15927
- Time zone
- UTC+07:00
- Shares border with
- Vientiane
- Dialing code
- 021
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- different from
- Vientiane
- topic's main category
- Category:Vientiane province
- Commons category
- Vientiane Province
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Encyclopedic overview
Vientiane province (Lao: ແຂວງວຽງຈັນ, pronounced [kʰwɛ̌ːŋ wíaŋ tɕàn]) is a province of Laos in the country's northwest. As of 2015 the province had a population of 419,090.
In the 16th century, Vientiane, under King Setthathirat's rule, became a centre of Buddhist teachings and temples were built.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vientiane Province” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.