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| Capital: | Muang Phôn-Hông |
| Area: | 15,927 km² |
| Inhabitants: | 373,700 (2004 est) |
| Pop. density: | 23 inh./km² |
| ISO 3166-2: | LA-VI |
| geocode: | 1000 |
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Vientiane (Lao ວຽງຈັນ) is a province of Laos, located in the northwest of the country.
1989 the province was split into two halves - the Vientiane prefecture containing the city Vientiane itself, and the remaining province.
Administrative divisions
The province is made up of the following districts:
- Feuang (10-06)
- Hinhurp (10-09)
- Hom (10-11)
- Kasy (10-04)
- Keo Oudom (10-03)
- Mad (10-08)
- Phonhong (10-01)
- Thoulakhom (10-02)
- Vangvieng (10-05)
- Viengkham (10-10)
- Xaisomboun (10-12)
- Xanakharm (10-07)
The districts Hom and Xaisomboun were added from the now dissolved special zone Xaisomboun in 2004 and 2006 respectively.
Further reading
- Ayabe, Tsuneo. The Village of Ban Pha Khao, Vientiane Province: A Preliminary Report. Laos project paper, no. 14. Los Angeles: Dept. of Anthropology, University of California, 1961.
- Kaufman, Howard Keva. Village Life in Vientiane Province (1956-1957). [S.l: s.n, 1964.
- Mukherjee, Chandan, and A. V. Jose. Report of a Survey of Rural Households in the Hat Xai Fong District in Vientiane Province of the Lao People's Democratic Republic. Bangkok: Asian Employment Programme (ILO-ARTEP), 1982. ISBN 9221032795
- Ovesen, Jan. A Minority Enters the Nation State: A Case Study of a Hmong Community in Vientiane Province, Laos. Uppsala, Sweden: Dept. of Cultural Anthropology, Uppsala University, 1995. ISBN 9150610988
- Poling, Fletcher H. Business Operations in Villages of the Vientiane Plain. [S.l: s.n, 1971.
- Wulff, Robert M. A Survey of Long-Established Villages of the Vientiane Plain. [Vientiane?]: Embassy of the United States of America, USAID Mission to Laos, 1972.
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