{{About|the city|the province|Cà Mau province|the peninsula|Cà Mau Peninsula}} {{Expand Vietnamese|topic=geo|date=April 2024}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2020}} {{Infobox settlement <!--See Template:Infobox Settlement for additional fields that may be available--> <!--See the Table at Infobox Settlement for all fields and descriptions of usage--> <!-- Basic info ---------------->| name = Cà Mau | official_name = Cà Mau City<br/>{{nobold|{{lang|vi|Thành phố Cà Mau}} }} | native_name = | settlement_type = Provincial city (Class-2)<!-- e.g. Town, Village, City, etc.--> | total_type = <!-- to set a non-standard label for total area and population rows --> | motto = <!-- images and maps -----------> | image_skyline = Embankment - bờ kè - Cà Mau (Vietnam).jpg | imagesize = 300px | image_caption = | image_seal = Seal of Cà Mau City.png | blank_emblem_type = | mapframe = yes | mapframe-zoom = 10 | pushpin_map = Vietnam <!-- the name of a location map as per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Location_map --> | pushpin_label_position = <!-- the position of the pushpin label: left, right, top, bottom, none --> | pushpin_map_caption = Location of in Vietnam | pushpin_mapsize = 300 <!-- Location ------------------>| subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = {{flag|Vietnam}} | subdivision_type1 = Province | subdivision_name1 = Cà Mau | seat = <!-- Politics -----------------> | leader_title1 = <!-- for places with, say, both a mayor and a city manager --> | established_title = <!-- Settled --> | established_date = <!-- Area ---------------------> | unit_pref = <!--Enter: Imperial, to display imperial before metric--> | area_footnotes = <ref name="NQ24"/> | area_total_km2 = <!-- ALL fields with measurements are subject to automatic unit conversion--> | area_land_km2 = 250.3<!--See table @ Template:Infobox Settlement for details on unit conversion--> | area_water_percent = <!-- Elevation --------------------------> | elevation_footnotes = <!--for references: use<ref> tags--> | elevation_min_ft = <!-- Population -----------------------> | population_as_of = 2019 census | population_note = | population_total = 226,372 | population_urban = 143,341 | population_rural = 83,031 | population_density_km2 = auto | population_density_sq_mi = <!-- General information ---------------> | timezone = Indochina Time | utc_offset = +07:00 | coor_type = <!-- can be used to specify what the coordinates refer to --> | coordinates = {{coord|9|11|N|105|9|E|region:VN|display=inline}} <!-- Area/postal codes & others -------->| postal_code_type = <!-- enter ZIP code, Postcode, Post code, Postal code... --> | blank_name = Climate | blank_info = Am | website = [http://www.camau.gov.vn Tỉnh Cà Mau] }}

'''Cà Mau''' ({{Audio|Ca Mau.ogg|listen|help=no}}) is a former city in southern Vietnam. It was the capital of Cà Mau province, a province in the Mekong Delta region, in the southernmost part of Vietnam's inland territory (mainland). The city was characterised by its system of transport canals, and most goods are transported there by boats and barges.

The population is approximately 226,372 as of 2019.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cà Mau (District-level City, Cà Mau, Vietnam) – Population Statistics, Charts, Map and Location |url=https://www.citypopulation.de/en/vietnam/admin/c%C3%A0_mau/964__c%C3%A0_mau/ |access-date=2024-02-07 |website=www.citypopulation.de}}</ref><ref name="NQ24">Nghị quyết số 24/NQ-CP ngày 04 tháng 6 năm 2009 của Chính phủ Việt Nam.</ref> Cà Mau is accessible by road (360 km south-west of Ho Chi Minh City) via National Route 1 or by air (Cà Mau Airport). The city was administratively subdivided into eight urban ''phường'' (ward) and seven rural ''xã'' (commune).<ref name="UBND">{{cite web|url=http://www.camau.gov.vn/index.php?o=modules&n=info&f=intro&root=1&idmenu=118&id=120|title=Thành phố Cà Mau|publisher=Ủy ban Nhân dân Thành phố Cà Mau (Cà Mau City People's Committee)|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081014112322/http://www.camau.gov.vn/index.php?o=modules&n=info&f=intro&root=1&idmenu=118&id=120|archive-date=14 October 2008}}</ref>

==Economy== Cà Mau is Vietnam's biggest exporter of shrimp and prawns. In 2005, Cà Mau province alone exported about $500 million of shrimp and prawns. A large petroleum project under construction, the Cà Mau Gas-Power-Fertilizer Complex, is valued at $1.4 billion. It includes: * 2 thermal power plants with a total capacity of 1500 MW (equipment provided by the German company Siemens) * A fertilizer plant with production capacity at 800,000 metric tonnes of urea/year, and * A gas pipeline 18&nbsp;inches in diameter to extend 298&nbsp;km offshore and with 27&nbsp;km onshore piping in gas from the PM3 gas field shared with Malaysia. Two billion cubic metres of gas are piped to feed these plants per year.

The project opened in December 2008.<ref>[http://english.vietnamnet.vn/social/2006/05/575619/ VietNamNet Bridge] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060720071351/http://english.vietnamnet.vn/social/2006/05/575619/ |date=20 July 2006 }}. English.vietnamnet.vn. Retrieved on 15 November 2011.</ref>

==Tourism== [[Image:CamauTurtle.jpg|thumb|left|Turtle meat is a common cuisine of Cà Mau]] Cà Mau has several attractions that draw domestic and international tourists. These include several wild bird parks, the southernmost point in Vietnam (called Mũi Cà Mau), and a number of pagodas. Near Cà Mau is the U Minh area with its famous mangrove forest and swamp cuisine: fish hot pots, Vietnamese, Chinese, and Khmer cuisines. Cà Mau also has several 1- to 3-star hotel restaurants.

==History== During the 1st millennium, the region of the present Cà Mau province was part of the Kingdom of Funan (Vietnamese: ''Phù Nam''), which included Laos, Cambodia, parts of eastern Thailand, and southern Vietnam (Vietnamese: ''Nam Bộ''). This region was later conquered by the kingdom of Chenla (Vietnamese: ''Chân Lạp'') and the Khmer Empire. In 1757, the land belonging to Cà Mau province ({{langx|km|ទឹកខ្មៅ}}, "''the black land''") was ceded by the Khmer king to the Nguyễn lord of Đàng Trong (central Vietnam) with an early settlement of Vietnamese people. During French rule, Cà Mau was only a small town. During the Republic of Vietnam, the area nearby Cà Mau was a stronghold (Vietnamese: ''Chiến khu cách mạng'') for the Việt Cộng, a Hanoi-backed guerrilla group fighting the United States Army and the South Vietnamese government during the Vietnam War. After 1975, Cà Mau was made the administrative seat and the governmental center of Minh Hải province, which included Cà Mau and Bạc Liêu province. In 1995, Cà Mau province broke off from Minh Hải province with Cà Mau as its capital. In 1999, the prime minister by a decree recognised Cà Mau as a borough (Vietnamese: ''Thị xã'') – Cà Mau Borough (3rd class urban area as per Vietnamese law).<ref name="UBND"/> In 2010, the Prime Minister further upgraded City of Cà Mau to a 2nd class urban area.<ref>[http://www.nhandan.com.vn/english/life/100810/life_cama.htm Life] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303175154/http://www.nhandan.com.vn/english/life/100810/life_cama.htm |date=3 March 2016 }}. Nhan Dan. Retrieved on 15 November 2011.</ref>

==Transportation== Cà Mau is served by Cà Mau Airport.

==Demographics== The majority of its residents is ethnic Vietnamese, in addition to 300 Khmer Krom households and 400 Hoa households.{{Citation needed|date=April 2026}}

==Climate== Cà Mau has a tropical monsoon climate with a lengthy wet season and a relatively brief dry season. The wet season lasts from April to December, and the greatest rainfall occurs in August with {{convert|366|mm|in|1|disp=or}}. The dry season lasts from January to March, the driest month being February with an average of {{convert|12|mm|in|1|disp=or}}. Temperatures are high year round, but rise noticeably before the arrival of the monsoons in April. {{Citation needed|date=April 2026}}

{{Weather box | width = auto | location = Cà Mau | metric first = Y | single line = Y | temperature colour = | Jan record high C = 35.2 | Feb record high C = 36.2 | Mar record high C = 36.8 | Apr record high C = 38.3 | May record high C = 38.2 | Jun record high C = 35.9 | Jul record high C = 34.7 | Aug record high C = 34.4 | Sep record high C = 35.2 | Oct record high C = 34.8 | Nov record high C = 33.8 | Dec record high C = 33.5 |year record high C = 38.3 | Jan high C = 30.7 | Feb high C = 31.4 | Mar high C = 32.4 | Apr high C = 33.4 | May high C = 32.8 | Jun high C = 31.7 | Jul high C = 31.2 | Aug high C = 31.0 | Sep high C = 30.8 | Oct high C = 30.8 | Nov high C = 30.7 | Dec high C = 30.2 |year high C = 31.4 | Jan mean C = 25.6 | Feb mean C = 26.2 | Mar mean C = 27.3 | Apr mean C = 28.5 | May mean C = 28.2 | Jun mean C = 27.7 | Jul mean C = 27.4 | Aug mean C = 27.3 | Sep mean C = 27.2 | Oct mean C = 27.0 | Nov mean C = 26.8 | Dec mean C = 26.0 |year mean C = 27.1 | Jan low C = 22.7 | Feb low C = 22.9 | Mar low C = 23.8 | Apr low C = 24.8 | May low C = 25.3 | Jun low C = 25.0 | Jul low C = 24.8 | Aug low C = 24.8 | Sep low C = 24.8 | Oct low C = 24.8 | Nov low C = 24.5 | Dec low C = 23.4 |year low C = 24.3 | Jan record low C = 15.3 | Feb record low C = 16.9 | Mar record low C = 18.1 | Apr record low C = 19.0 | May record low C = 21.9 | Jun record low C = 21.1 | Jul record low C = 21.2 | Aug record low C = 21.3 | Sep record low C = 21.7 | Oct record low C = 21.4 | Nov record low C = 19.7 | Dec record low C = 16.8 |year record low C = 15.3 | rain colour = green | Jan rain mm = 20.6 | Feb rain mm = 12.7 | Mar rain mm = 31.7 | Apr rain mm = 100.9 | May rain mm = 248.9 | Jun rain mm = 322.5 | Jul rain mm = 433.1 | Aug rain mm = 348.2 | Sep rain mm = 357.2 | Oct rain mm = 356.7 | Nov rain mm = 194.8 | Dec rain mm = 63.0 |year rain mm = 2394.0 | Jan rain days = 3.8 | Feb rain days = 1.6 | Mar rain days = 2.9 | Apr rain days = 6.9 | May rain days = 17.8 | Jun rain days = 20.8 | Jul rain days = 22.2 | Aug rain days = 22.2 | Sep rain days = 22.2 | Oct rain days = 22.5 | Nov rain days = 16.2 | Dec rain days = 8.6 |year rain days = 165.9 | Jan humidity = 79.8 | Feb humidity = 78.8 | Mar humidity = 78.0 | Apr humidity = 78.2 | May humidity = 82.9 | Jun humidity = 85.4 | Jul humidity = 85.9 | Aug humidity = 86.4 | Sep humidity = 86.7 | Oct humidity = 86.9 | Nov humidity = 85.1 | Dec humidity = 81.7 |year humidity = 83.0 | Jan sun = 220.6 | Feb sun = 228.3 | Mar sun = 256.4 | Apr sun = 230.3 | May sun = 173.7 | Jun sun = 142.3 | Jul sun = 153.0 | Aug sun = 148.9 | Sep sun = 136.6 | Oct sun = 146.2 | Nov sun = 171.4 | Dec sun = 187.0 | year sun = 2185.8 | source 1 = Vietnam Institute for Building Science and Technology<ref name=IBST>{{cite web|title=Vietnam Institute for Building Science and Technology|url=https://datafiles.chinhphu.vn/cpp/files/vbpq/2022/10/02-bxd.pdf }}</ref> }}

==People from Cà Mau== *Nguyễn Tấn Dũng – Prime Minister of Vietnam from 2006 to 2016.

==Gallery== <gallery> Image:Cà_Mau_city_center.jpg|The Monument in downtown Cà Mau City, surrounded with the Provincial Administrative Hall, the Central Post Office and several banks Image:Camaucitycentral.jpg|Phan Ngọc Hiển street in Cà Mau Central Image:Camaucity from air2.jpg|Cà Mau city downtown viewed from the air Image:Camaucity from air3.jpg|A main street in Cà Mau city Image:Camaucity form air4.jpg|Cà Mau city </gallery>

==References== {{Reflist|colwidth=30em}}

==External links== {{Commons category}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20060720071351/http://english.vietnamnet.vn/social/2006/05/575619/ Ground-breaking ceremony of gas-power-fertilizer project]

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