Mộc Châu

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FieldValue
settlement_typeDistrict-level town (Class-4)
official_nameMộc Châu Town
Thị xã Mộc Châu
other_nameMường Mỗi
nickname"The White Meadowland"
Thảo nguyên trắng)
motto"The meadowland of the white milk"
(Thảo nguyên căng tràn nhựa sống)
image_skylineBetween Son La and Moc Chau.png
imagesize292px
image_captionView from the Mộc-châu Plateau to the Hòa Bình Dam.
image_sealSeal of Mộc Châu Town.png
subdivision_typeCountry
subdivision_name
subdivision_type1Region
subdivision_name1Northwest
subdivision_type2Province
subdivision_name2Sơn La
seat_typeCentral hall
seatLittle Zone 4, Mộc Châu town
government_typeTown
leader_titlePeople Committee's Chairman
leader_nameLê Trọng Bình
leader_title1Vice-Chairman
leader_name1Lê Hồng Minh
established_titleEstablishment
established_dateIX century
area_footnotes
area_total_km21,072.09
population_as_of2024
population_footnotes
population_total148,259
population_density_km2auto
timezoneIndochina Time
utc_offset+7
coordinates
postal_code_typeZIP code
postal_code34700
website

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| footnotes = Mộc Châu [mə̰ʔwk˨˩:ʨəw˧˧] is a former town of Sơn La province in the Northwest region of Vietnam.

History

Middle Ages

Its name Mộc-châu in Kinh language is originated from Muaeng Mol (Mường Mỗi, "the land of barbarians") in the Black Tai language. This word is used to refer to the Xá ethnic groups, who are the ancient owners of the land. After being expelled from Mộc Châu, they transformed into Muong people.

During the Lý-Trần dynasties, the land where Mộc Châu is now the Southern part of Đà Giang province (Đà-giang đạo) of the Annamese Empire, although it was still completely independent in reality. A leader was well known in Annamese history called Trịnh Giốc Mật.

Previously, the strip of land from Mộc Châu to Mai Châu was once considered one and had no official name. Until the end of the Early Lê dynasty, or the 17th century, this area was divided into three parts : Mộc Châu belonged to Black Tai leaders (Taydam), and Mai Châu for the White Tai ones (Taykhao), in addition to a few of villages in the southernmost became the part of Xam Neua (Muang Phuan kingdom). The situation like this was almost kept until the Nguyễn dynasty completely weakened by the pressure of the French colonialists.

XX century

During the French colonial period, Mộc Châu's leadership clans were recognized by the French government in Indochina with limited autonomy within the Tai Federation. They were allowed to have their own flags and guards. Currently, the Sơn La Provincial Museum still stores some black flags with embroidered white snakes, which are symbols of the land.

In the 1952 Nasan campaign ("cassava field" in Tai language), Mộc Châu was used by Vietminh forces as a military supply center to quickly cut off the "stomach" of the French armies (CEFEO) in the Northwest region.

XXI century

On November 14, 2025, the National Assembly Standing Committee of Vietnam issued the Resolution No.1280/NQ-UBTVQH15 on the arrangement of district and commune administrative units in Sơn La province in the period of 2023-2025. Accordingly, officially establishing Mộc-châu Town on the basis of the entire natural area is 1,072.09 km2 and the population size is 148,259 people of old Mộc-châu District. Regarding affiliated administrative units, Mộc-châu Town has 15 administrative units at commune level, including 8 wards and 7 communes. On November 25, Sơn La Provincial People's Committee held a press conference and reached agreement that it would hold the Ceremony to announce the establishment of Mộc-châu Town on January 18, 2025.

Culture

The name of Mộc-châu (Muaeng-mol) has been mentioned in the famous epics Táy pú xớc and Quắm tố mướng of White Tai people about 17th century.

According to an old legend, Mộc Châu is the venue that used to take place a horse race to divide the border between the Black Tai people and the Xá ethnic groups. The Tai men used a newly born horse to participate in the competition, and as a result, they won to chase the Xá people to step back to Hòa Bình province. Currently, grass horse racing is an annual festival held on every Lunar New Year.

Mộc Châu is popular with Vietnamese and international tourists for its hill tribes such as White & Black Thai People and Muong People, the green tea hills, Mộc Châu milk, the natural landscape of Dải Yếm waterfalls, Hill Pine and Orchid Garden flowers.

This town takes five hours driving, with a distance of 200 km from Hanoi to Mộc Châu.

Geography

Mộc Châu town (Thị-xã Mộc-châu) is 200 kilometers from the capital of Hanoi. As of 2019 it had a population of 114,460.

Moc Chau belongs to the highland landscape class in the horizontal classification system of Vietnamese landscape, with characteristics of climate, ecology and human life.

Moc Chau is distributed on the terrain with an average elevation of more than 1,050 m above the sea level. The annual average temperature of Moc Chau is 18.7 °C, it has cool climate due to lying between the Da River (northeast) and Ma River (southwest). These two river systems act as two natural air conditioning systems. At the same time, Moc Chau has a high climate division along the belt, so it has both the characteristics of the subtropical and temperate highland climate, which is very convenient for developing tourism for the whole year.

Climate

|metric first=y |single line=y |location = Mộc Châu, elevation 958 m |Jan high C = 17.2 |Feb high C = 19.0 |Mar high C = 22.8 |Apr high C = 26.3 |May high C = 27.7 |Jun high C = 27.7 |Jul high C = 27.6 |Aug high C = 27.0 |Sep high C = 25.8 |Oct high C = 23.5 |Nov high C = 20.8 |Dec high C = 18.0 |year high C = 23.6 |Jan mean C = 12.3 |Feb mean C = 13.8 |Mar mean C = 17.2 |Apr mean C = 20.6 |May mean C = 22.6 |Jun mean C = 23.3 |Jul mean C = 23.2 |Aug mean C = 22.7 |Sep mean C = 21.5 |Oct mean C = 19.2 |Nov mean C = 16.2 |Dec mean C = 13.1 |year mean C = 18.8 |Jan low C = 9.4 |Feb low C = 10.8 |Mar low C = 13.8 |Apr low C = 17.0 |May low C = 19.4 |Jun low C = 20.6 |Jul low C = 20.6 |Aug low C = 20.1 |Sep low C = 18.8 |Oct low C = 16.4 |Nov low C = 13.2 |Dec low C = 10.0 |year low C = 15.8 |Jan record high C = 29.0 |Jan record low C = -0.9 |Feb record high C = 31.4 |Feb record low C = 0.4 |Mar record high C = 33.5 |Mar record low C = 2.2 |Apr record high C = 34.2 |Apr record low C = 7.3 |May record high C = 36.3 |May record low C = 11.4 |Jun record high C = 33.3 |Jun record low C = 13.8 |Jul record high C = 33.5 |Jul record low C = 15.2 |Aug record high C = 34.5 |Aug record low C = 15.8 |Sep record high C = 31.7 |Sep record low C = 11.7 |Oct record high C = 31.1 |Oct record low C = 8.3 |Nov record high C = 29.5 |Nov record low C = 3.3 |Dec record high C = 29.2 |Dec record low C = -1.5 |year record high C = |year record low C = |rain colour = green |Jan rain mm = 21.9 |Feb rain mm = 21.3 |Mar rain mm = 49.9 |Apr rain mm = 101.9 |May rain mm = 182.6 |Jun rain mm = 231.3 |Jul rain mm = 268.0 |Aug rain mm = 318.6 |Sep rain mm = 257.2 |Oct rain mm = 132.3 |Nov rain mm = 38.0 |Dec rain mm = 18.0 |year rain mm = 1640.4 |Jan rain days = 10.9 |Feb rain days = 10.9 |Mar rain days = 12.5 |Apr rain days = 14.9 |May rain days = 17.9 |Jun rain days = 18.3 |Jul rain days = 21.0 |Aug rain days = 21.1 |Sep rain days = 16.3 |Oct rain days = 13.3 |Nov rain days = 10.1 |Dec rain days = 7.9 |year rain days = 175.5 |Jan humidity = 87.4 |Feb humidity = 86.9 |Mar humidity = 84.0 |Apr humidity = 82.9 |May humidity = 82.3 |Jun humidity = 84.6 |Jul humidity = 86.3 |Aug humidity = 88.1 |Sep humidity = 87.8 |Oct humidity = 86.4 |Nov humidity = 85.8 |Dec humidity = 85.2 |year humidity = 85.6 |Jan sun = 134.4 |Feb sun = 128.2 |Mar sun = 151.3 |Apr sun = 170.6 |May sun = 191.0 |Jun sun = 155.5 |Jul sun = 162.3 |Aug sun = 154.9 |Sep sun = 157.1 |Oct sun = 150.4 |Nov sun = 149.0 |Dec sun = 152.6 |year sun = 1851.1 |source 1 = Vietnam Institute for Building Science and Technology

Landspaces

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References

  1. [http://datafile.chinhphu.vn/file-remote-v2/DownloadServlet?filePath=vbpq/2013/06/72-nq.pdf Nghị quyết số 72/NQ-CP của Chính phủ] về việc điều chỉnh địa giới hành chính huyện Mộc Châu để thành lập huyện Vân Hồ thuộc tỉnh Sơn La.
  2. [[General Statistics Office of Vietnam]]. (2019). ""Completed Results of the 2019 Viet Nam Population and Housing Census"". Statistical Publishing House (Vietnam).
  3. [https://tienphong.vn/cong-bo-thanh-lap-thi-xa-moc-chau-post1694733.tpo Công-bố quyết-định thành-lập thị-xã Mộc-châu]
  4. "Districts of Vietnam". Statoids.
  5. "Vietnam Institute for Building Science and Technology".

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