Vinh

Vinh, city in northern Vietnam, on a fertile coastal plain near the mouth of the Ka Long O River. A trade centre on the coastal railway, Vinh lies in an area in which rice, corn, timber, and livestock are grown; and there are iron and manganese deposits in the vicinity. Connected with the port of Ben Thuy on the South China Sea, Vinh has rail repair shops, a fish cannery, a sawmill, and a power plant. In 1964 United States fighter planes struck targets near Vinh in an action related to the Tonkin Gulf incident during the Vietnam War. Population (1989) 110,652.