Cà Mau (city)

About Cà Mau (city)

Cà Mau is a former city in southern Vietnam. It was the capital of Cà Mau province, a province in the Mekong Delta region, in the southernmost part of Vietnam's inland territory (mainland). The city was characterised by its system of transport canals, and most goods are transported there by boats and barges.

The population is approximately 226,372 as of 2019. Cà Mau is accessible by road (360 km south-west of Ho Chi Minh City) via National Route 1 or by air (Cà Mau Airport). The city was administratively subdivided into eight urban phường (ward) and seven rural xã (commune).

Cà Mau is Vietnam's biggest exporter of shrimp and prawns. In 2005, Cà Mau province alone exported about $500 million of shrimp and prawns. A large petroleum project under construction, the Cà Mau Gas-Power-Fertilizer Complex, is valued at $1.4 billion. It includes:

2 thermal power plants with a total capacity of 1500 MW (equipment provided by the German company Siemens)

A fertilizer plant with production capacity at 800,000 metric tonnes of urea/year, and

A gas pipeline 18 inches in diameter to extend 298 km offshore and with 27 km onshore piping in gas from the PM3 gas field shared with Malaysia...

Overview adapted from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA. Photography via Wikimedia Commons.