Soc Trang

The province of SocTrang is 230 km from Ho Chi Minh City. SocTrang is located in the Mekong Delta. It is surrounded by the provinces of Bac Lieu, Can Tho and TraVinh.

The average annual temperature is about 27°C with a rate of rain fall of 1850mm.

In Soc Trang province, bordering the river downstream of the Hau and the East Sea, the main economic sectors are agriculture, fishing, manufacturing and service delivery.

It is a center of rice production. Other agricultural products are corn, mango, durian,mangos teen, pineapple, coconut. River and seafishing and breeding pigs are developed. The province of Soc Trang is one of the regions of the Mekong Delta specializes in the treatment of seafood and food. It also exports shrimp, freshwater fish, salt and brackish meat dried buffalo, fungi. .

The province has 90 pagodas and 47 chinese Khmer pagodas, one of the most famous are the Doi Pagoda(Pagoda Bat) Pagoda Dat Set (Clay Pagoda) and the Khleang.

Doi pagoda and Dat Set and the museumon of Khmer culture found in SocTrang. Natural resources include the bird sanctuary of Thanh Tri and orchard MyPhuoc.

Khleang the pagoda in the city of Soc Trang, built in 1533.