La Gi

Lagi town Thị xã Lagi
County-level town (Class-3)
Thầy Thím palace.
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Country	Vietnam
Region	South Central Coast
Province	Bình Thuận
Establishment	October 22, 1956
Central hall	No.26, Hoàng Diệu road, Tân An ward, Lagi town
Government
• Type	Town
• People Committee's Chairman	Phạm Trọng Nhân
• People Council's Chairman	Tôn Thất Muộn
• Front Committee's Chairman	Võ Minh Vương
• Party Committee's Secretary	Nguyễn Hồng Pháp
Area
• Total	185.37 km2 (71.57 sq mi)
Population  (December 31, 2022)
• Total	108,519
• Density	585/km2 (1,520/sq mi)
• Ethnicities	Kinh Tanka Champa
Time zone	UTC+7 (Indochina Time)
ZIP code	800000–17000 [note 1]
Website	Lagi.Binhthuan.gov.vn Lagi.Binhthuan.dcs.vn

La Gi or Lagi is a town of Bình Thuận province in the South Central Coast region of Vietnam.

History

Its name La Gi or Lagi [laː˧˧:ɣi˧˧] in Kinh language was originated from ladik ^[1] [laː˧˧:ɗɨt˧˥] in Cham language, which means "swamp" to reflect the situation of this area before the 1960s.

Under the Republic of Vietnam regime, La Gi was the provincial capital of Bình Tuy province (present-day western Bình Thuận Province). After the Vietnam War, it became the capital of Hàm Tân District. It was established in 2005 with the split of La Gi away from Hàm Tân District.

Geography

Currently, Lagi town is subdivided into :

• 5 wards : Tân An, Phước Hội, Phước Lộc, Tân Thiện and Bình Tân.
• 4 communes : Tân Phước, Tân Tiến, Tân Hải and Tân Bình.

Lagi borders with Hàm Tân District in the north and west, Hàm Thuận Nam District in the east and the East Sea in the south. It is also on the coastal road from Bình Châu via Lộc An beach to Phước Hải, Đất Đỏ. ^{[note 2]}

Notes and references

Notes

1. An official code from May 1, 2024.
2. Vietnam Iain Stewart : "A beautiful road winds along the coast between Bình Châu and Long Hải, passing the upandcoming beaches of Hồ Cốc, Hồ Tràm and Lộc An, crossing through the towns of La Gi and Phước Hải, and eventually connecting Mũi Né".

References

1. Đi tìm những địa danh xưa nay của Bình Thuận

Further reading

Bibliography

Vietnamese

• Sơn Nam, Nói về miền Nam (Talk about the South), publishing by Lá Bối, Saigon, 1967.
• Sơn Nam, Văn minh miệt vườn (The Civilization of the Countryside), publishing by An Tiêm, Saigon, 1970.
• Sơn Nam, Lịch sử khẩn hoang miền Nam (History of Reclamation in the South), publishing by Đông Phố, Saigon, 1973.
• Sơn Nam, Cá tính miền Nam (The Personality of the South), publishing by Đông Phố, Saigon, 1974.
• Sơn Nam, Đồng bằng sông Cửu Long - nét sinh hoạt xưa (The Mekong Delta and Its Old Lifestyle), publishing by Hochiminh-City Publishing House, Saigon, 1985.
• Sơn Nam, Danh thắng miền Nam (Famous Landscapes of the South), publishing by Đồng Tháp P. H., Cao Lãnh, 1998.
• Sơn Nam, Tiếp cận đồng bằng sông Cửu Long (Access to the Mekong Delta), publishing by Trẻ P. H., Saigon, 2000.
• Trần Ngọc Thêm. Cơ sở văn hóa Việt Nam (The Foundation of Vietnamese Culture), 504 pages. Publishing by Nhà xuất bản Đại học Tổng hợp TPHCM. Saigon, Vietnam, 1995.

English

• George Coedes. The Making of South East Asia, 2nd ed. University of California Press, 1983.
• Li Tana (2011). Jiaozhi (Giao Chỉ) 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. 39–44. ISBN 9780812205022.
• Li Tana, Towards an environmental history of the eastern Red River Delta, Vietnam, c.900–1400 , 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.

External links

• About Lagi town of Bình Thuận (vi)

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