Vung Tau

Vung Tau is the biggest city and previous capital of Ba Rịa– Vung Tau Province in Vietnam. The city zone is 140 square kilometers 54 square miles, comprises of thirteen urban wards and one collective of Long Son Islet. Vung Tau was the capital of the area until the point when it was supplanted by the substantially littler Ba Ria city on 2 May 2012. The city is likewise the unrefined petroleum extraction focus of Vietnam.

Vung Tau is the main oil base of Vietnam where raw petroleum and flammable gas misuse exercises overwhelm the city's economy and contribute key salary to Vietnam's financial plan and fare volume. Vung Tau shipyard's reproduction is planned to be finished in 2008, provided with exceptional grapple dealing with supply vessels of Aker. PEB Steel works a few industrial facilities in Vung Tau, for developing steel structures to be raised around Asia. Vung Tau has broad shorelines, including Back Beach and Front Beach.

As in many territories and urban areas in Vietnam, Buddhism is the dominating religion. Mahayana Buddhism, the overwhelming type of the religion in Vietnam, was conveyed to Ba Ria-Vung Tau by the Vietnamese pioneers from the north toward the start of the seventeenth century amid the development of the Nguyen masters. When they came bringing their unique religion they constructed numerous Buddhist pagodas, sanctuaries and statues in the city.