Country Vietnam Capital Trảng Bàng Area 338 km² Local time Sunday 6:14 AM | Region Southeast Time zone UTC + 7 (UTC+7) Province Tây Ninh Province | |
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Trảng Bàng is a district in Tây Ninh Province, in the Southeast region of Vietnam. It has a traditional artisan industry, and recently has opened an industrial zone for foreign investment. This town has a famous food called bánh canh Trảng Bàng, a kind of pork noodle soup and "Trảng Bàng dew-wetted rice paper" (Vietnamese: Bánh tráng phơi sương Trảng Bàng), served with boiled pork, local herbs and Vietnamese fish sauce.
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Outside Vietnam it is most famous for the iconic and Pulitzer Prize-winning image of a nude Phan Thi Kim Phuc (who had torn off her burning clothes to survive the attack) and other Vietnamese children fleeing a napalm attack on the village of Trảng Bàng alongside ARVN soldiers. The image was taken by the photographer Nick Ut.
Cuisine
A pork noodle soup dish called bánh canh Trảng Bàng is served there.
As of 2003 the district had a population of 150,716. The district covers an area of 338 km². The district capital lies at Trảng Bàng.