Kon Tum Province 4.59

Kon Tum Province lies in the Central Highlands region of Vietnam and shares borders with Laos and Cambodia. It has an area of 9,934 square km and a population of approximately 330,000. The economy is primarily agricultural.NameThe name Kon Tum comes from the name of a village of the Bahnar ethnic group. In the Bahnar language, kon means "village" and tum means "pool". Prior to the adoption of the Vietnamese alphabet in the 1920s, the name was rendered as.Administrative divisionsKon Tum is subdivided into 9 district-level sub-divisions: 8 districts: Đắk Glei Đắk Hà Đắk Tô Kon Plông Kon Rẫy Ngọc Hồi Sa Thầy Tu Mơ Rông 1 provincial city: Kon Tum (capital) They are further subdivided into 6 commune-level towns (or townlets), 83 communes, and 10 wards.GeographyNeighboring provinces are Quảng Nam to the north, Quảng Ngãi to the east and Gia Lai to the south. The capital city is Kon Tum.