BinhThuan Province:

- Area: 7,854 sq. km
- Population: 1,090,000.
- Ethnic groups: the Kinh (majority) makes up 80% of the population, then come the Cham, Hoa, Co-Ho, etc.
- Geography: BinhThuan Province is 188 km from HoChiMinh City. It borders NinhThuan Province in the north and north - east; LamDong Province in the north-west, DongNai Province in the west, BaRiaVungTau Province in the south west, and the sea in the east and south east.
- Administrative units: It has PhanThiet provincial town and eight districts of TuyPhong, BacBinh, North HamThuan, South HamThuan, HamTan, DucLinh, TanhLinh and PhuQuy.
- Terrain: BinhThuan is at the end of the TruongSon Range, which is more than 1,000 m above sea level and stretches to the sea, with high slopes. There is LaNga River and six smaller rivers. The cultivable land accounts for one-seventh of the total area. Along the coastline, there are many sandy hills and salty submerged areas.
- Climate: The Province is in the driest area nationwide, with little rainfall, about 1,000 - 1,600 mm per year (half the average rainfall in the South). The average temperature is 27oC, and the average humidity is 80%.
- National-scale projects: the group of HamThuan-DaMi hydro - electric plants, with a total capacity of 476 MW/h.

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Chairman of BinhThuan Committee of People

HuynhTanThanh.

In the control room of DaMi-HamThuan Hydro-electric Plant.

Making fish sauce.

Packing blue dragon fruits for export.

Processing cashew for export at FATIMEX Company.

The 100 years old stone lighthouse of KheGa.

4-star Novotel Hotel.

In late October 1995, thousands of domestic and foreign scientists and tourists flocked to MuiNe beach in BinhThuan Province to enjoy and study a universal wonder, i.e. a total solar eclipse, which might return in a hundred years. When visiting this land, visitors all discovered the magnificence of the local beauty - spots and its economic potential. Throughout the province, there are rice fields, luxuriant cashew farms and orchards, plentiful sea products, salt marshes, shrimp rearing ponds, fishing ports or fish drying yards, and fish sauce making factories.

BinhThuan is endowed by nature with a 192 km coastline, the island district of PhuQuy and many other smaller islands, bays and fishing grounds with different sea currents, which are home to schools of fish, shrimps, cuttlefish and other sea creatures. With a fleet of 4,600 ships, big and small, the local experienced fishermen catch annually about 130,000 tones of sea products. The most notable sea product is the cuttlefish, with an annual output of 20,000 tones, which are processed into frozen and dried products and much sought after domestically and overseas. PhanThiet fish sauce is a famous brand nationwide due to its quality and unique taste. Each year about 20 million liters of PhanThiet fish sauce are supplied to the domestic market. The area of more than 52,000 ha of salty submerged beaches provides favorable conditions for rearing prawns, making rafts to rear crabs and fish, and especially oysters, which make up 75% of the national sea produce output. These products are processed for export under the famous brand “Queen Scallop”. In recent years, the coastal districts have strongly developed the cultivation of aquatic products, especially prawns, that has greatly attracted foreign investment from different sources.

The local soil, available with much sunshine but less rainfall, is not suited to rice growing. But it is good for long-term industrial plants such as rubber, cashew, pepper, blue dragon fruits (with 25,000 tones for export annually) and cotton (an area of 10,000 ha was established for cotton growing). The State has invested hundreds of billions of Vietnamese dong in building water reservoirs and irrigation works for production and daily use.

The tourist potential of Province  was exploited only recently, but it quickly attracted the attention of both domestic and foreign investors. Along the 20 km stretch of land from PhanThiet Town to MuiNe beach and Rom Island, many tourist projects have been implemented. After a couple of years, BinhThuan has been marked on the map as the 10^th tourist destination of country, where diverse forms of tourist services are provided to the visitors, such as eco-tours,  excursions, sanitarium for disease treatment and relaxation.

Ancient architectural works have been preserved, of which there is Poshanu Tower worshipping Shiva Deity and dating back 1,200 years. It is the only Cham architectural work built with large bricks. The bricks were ground and stuck to one another in a unique way.