#cantho #vietnam #mekongCần Thơ (standard Vietnamese: [kə̂n tʰəː] (About this soundlisten), Southern: [kʌŋ˨˩ tʰəː]) is the fourth-largest city in Vietnam, and the largest city in the Mekong Delta.It is noted for its floating markets, rice paper-making village, and picturesque rural canals. It had a population of 1.2 million as of 2011, grew to 1,520,000 in June 2018, and is located on the south bank of the Hậu River, a distributary of the Mekong River. In 2007, about 50 people died when the Cần Thơ Bridge collapsed, causing Vietnam's worst engineering disaster. In 2011, Cần Thơ International Airport opened.[6]The city is nicknamed the «western capital» (Tây Đô), and is located 169 kilometres (105 miles) from Hồ Chí Minh City.