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Da Lat
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Da Lat (dä lät), city (1989 pop. 87,136), S Vietnam, in the central highlands, alt. c.5,000 ft (1,520 m). Developed by the French as a health resort and hunting center, it is a modern city surrounded by mountains that rise to 7,380 ft (2,249 m). Coffee, tea, tobacco, and temperate-zone vegetables are commercially grown. Da Lat is linked by highway with Ho Chi Minh City and is on a branch rail line from the coastal city of Phan Rang. It has an airport. In the city are a college (founded 1976) and the Ethnic Minority Museum.
Da Lat 

a city in South Vietnam in Trung Bo District on the Da Lat plateau. A highway connects Da Lat with Saigon. A rural place, it has an airport and sanatoriums. In the region of Da Lat there are tea. coffee, and rubber plantations.



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DALAT, Vietnam, June 21 Kyodo Representatives of 21 nations and international organizations started a two-day meeting Thursday with Vietnamese government officials in Lam Dong Province to review Vietnam's economic development over the past six months.
DALAT, Vietnam, June 23 Kyodo Foreign donors urged Vietnam on Friday to accelerate the pace of reforms, arguing that reforms in the country are still implemented too slowly while competition from neighboring countries is growing quickly.
DALAT, Vietnam, May 25 Kyodo Authorities in Lam Dong Province in Vietnam's central highland are finding it a difficult job looking for ways to lure tourists to its capital Dalat.
 
 
 
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