Kien Giang is a province of Vietnam, located in the Mekong Delta region of southern Vietnam. It is known for fishing and rice farming. The provincial capital is Rach Gia, 155 mi (249 km) from Ho Chi Minh City. Kien Giang’s area is about 6,299 km² and its population is about 1,634,043, of which 22 percent live in urban areas.
Kien Giang is bordered with An Giang Province in the northeast, Can Tho and Hau Giang provinces in the east, Bac Lieu Province in the southeast and Ca Mau Province in the south, and Kampot Province of Cambodia (with the 33 mi (53 km) border) in the west, and the Gulf of Thailand in the southwest (with the 124 mi (200 km) coast).
According to survey results on April 1, 2009, Kien Giang province’s population is 1,683,149 people.[citation needed]
