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Vientiane (Lao
Lao alphabet

The Lao script is used mainly to write the Lao language.The minority languages of Laos are also written in the Lao script, and officially it is the only script to write them in Laos, but many speakers of Hmong language prefer the Latin alphabet....
 ??????) is a province of Laos
Laos

Laos , officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic, is a landlocked country in southeast Asia, bordered by Burma and People's Republic of China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the south, and Thailand to the west....
, located in the northwest of the country.

1989 the province was split into two halves - the Vientiane prefecture containing the city Vientiane
Vientiane

Vientiane is the capital city of Laos, situated in the Mekong Valley. It is also Laos's largest city. The estimated population of the city is 200,000 while the number of people living in the Vientiane metropolitan area is believed to be over 730,000....
 itself, and the remaining province.








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Vientiane (Lao
Lao alphabet

The Lao script is used mainly to write the Lao language.The minority languages of Laos are also written in the Lao script, and officially it is the only script to write them in Laos, but many speakers of Hmong language prefer the Latin alphabet....
 ??????) is a province of Laos
Laos

Laos , officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic, is a landlocked country in southeast Asia, bordered by Burma and People's Republic of China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the south, and Thailand to the west....
, located in the northwest of the country.

1989 the province was split into two halves - the Vientiane prefecture containing the city Vientiane
Vientiane

Vientiane is the capital city of Laos, situated in the Mekong Valley. It is also Laos's largest city. The estimated population of the city is 200,000 while the number of people living in the Vientiane metropolitan area is believed to be over 730,000....
 itself, and the remaining province.

Administrative divisions


The province is made up of the following districts:

  1. Feuang (10-06)
  2. Hinhurp (10-09)
  3. Hom (10-11)
  4. Kasy (10-04)
  5. Keo Oudom (10-03)
  6. Mad (10-08)
  7. Phonhong (10-01)
  8. Thoulakhom (10-02)
  9. Vangvieng (10-05)
  10. Viengkham (10-10)
  11. Xaisomboun (10-12)
  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.