Con Co
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Cồn Cỏ is a rural district
(huyện) of Quang Tri province
in the North Central Coastal
region of Vietnam
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It is an island and is located 27 km to the east of Mũi Lay 27 km, at 17°10' North and 107°21' East of Greenwich. Before it became its own district, the island was in the commune of Vĩnh Quang, in Vĩnh Linh District of Quảng Trị Province.
The island became a district through Decree 174/2004 NĐ-CP of October 1, 2004. Province officials held a ceremony to create the district on April 18, 2005.
As of 2003 the district had a population of 400. The district covers an area of 2 km², making one of the smallest districts in Vietnam. The district capital lies at Dao Con Co.
According to recent archaeological work, in the Bến Nghè aread of the island, there are rock artefacats believed to date to the Stone Age
, tens of thousands of years ago. In the first few centuries CE, Cham people inhabited the island.
Excavations undertaken in 1994 show that during the 17th and 18th centuries, the island was a stopover point for Vietnamese sea merchants.
During the time of the Nguyễn Dynasty, the island was used to imprison convicts, and some objects such as chains and metal clasps have been found there.
Districts of Vietnam
||The provinces of Vietnam are divided into counties , provincial cities , and county-level towns .The centrally-controlled municipalities are subdivided into rural counties , county-level towns , and urban districts , which then subdivided into wards ....
(huyện) of Quang Tri province
Quang Tri Province
Quảng Trị is a province on the North Central Coast of Vietnam, north of the former imperial capital of Huế.-Geography:Located in North Central Vietnam, Quang Tri Province is surrounded by Quang Binh Province on the north, Thua Thien-Hue Province on the south, Savannakhet Province of Laos on the...
in the North Central Coastal
Bac Trung Bo
Bắc Trung Bộ is one of the regions of Vietnam. It consists of six provinces: Thanh Hóa, Nghệ An, Hà Tĩnh, Quảng Bình, Quảng Trị, Thừa Thiên-Huế...
region of Vietnam
Vietnam
Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...
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It is an island and is located 27 km to the east of Mũi Lay 27 km, at 17°10' North and 107°21' East of Greenwich. Before it became its own district, the island was in the commune of Vĩnh Quang, in Vĩnh Linh District of Quảng Trị Province.
The island became a district through Decree 174/2004 NĐ-CP of October 1, 2004. Province officials held a ceremony to create the district on April 18, 2005.
As of 2003 the district had a population of 400. The district covers an area of 2 km², making one of the smallest districts in Vietnam. The district capital lies at Dao Con Co.
According to recent archaeological work, in the Bến Nghè aread of the island, there are rock artefacats believed to date to the Stone Age
Stone Age
The Stone Age is a broad prehistoric period, lasting about 2.5 million years , during which humans and their predecessor species in the genus Homo, as well as the earlier partly contemporary genera Australopithecus and Paranthropus, widely used exclusively stone as their hard material in the...
, tens of thousands of years ago. In the first few centuries CE, Cham people inhabited the island.
Excavations undertaken in 1994 show that during the 17th and 18th centuries, the island was a stopover point for Vietnamese sea merchants.
During the time of the Nguyễn Dynasty, the island was used to imprison convicts, and some objects such as chains and metal clasps have been found there.