Local role
The names of the coastal island system of Vietnam  [Về tên gọi các đảo trong hệ thống đảo ven bờ Việt Nam] / Lê Đức An // TT Khoa học và công nghệ biển . -2004. -Vol 4. -p. 10-16. -(Vietnamese)
Classification (rubrics)39.29

Key wordsIsland; Name; Coastal area;

For calling these islands in Viet Nam there are 5 common names to be used: hon, dao, con, Cu lao and da. The author introduces the characteristics on their quantity, area and distribution, and analyses also the process of transformation from the name poullo, Cu lao into hon and dao. The proper names of islands dao have many different meaning.

LocationTVKHKTTW, CVv 280


Print this


  Introduction
Infoterra Vietnam
NACESTI
You are visitor no: