Bạc Liêu (Vietnamese: [ɓàːk liəw] ⓘ) is a provincial city and capital of the Bạc Liêu Province in the Mekong Delta region in southern Vietnam.
[2] The name Bạc Liêu is based on the Chinese pronunciation of a Khmer name[3] (Pol Leav ពលលាវ in Khmer).
In the 1950s the area was a center of Huỳnh Phú Sổ's Hòa Hảo religion after Sổ was released there.
[4] Bạc Liêu has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw).
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