Bảo Lâm district, Lâm Đồng
district of Lam Dong province, Vietnam
Bảo Lâm is a district (huyện) of Lâm Đồng province in the Central Highlands region of Vietnam.
As of 2003 the district had a population of 107,279. The district covers an area of 1,457 km². The district capital lies at Lộc Thắng.
It was formed after being split out of Bảo Lộc. Apart from the district seat there are 13 communes in the district: Lộc Quảng, Lộc Ngãi, Lộc Đức, Lộc T'Lâm, Lộc Phú, Lộc Bắc, Lộc Bảo, Lộc An, Lộc Tân, Lộc Thành, Lộc Nam, B'Lá and Tân Lạc.
The main economic activity in the district is the planting of cash crops, the most prominent being tea, coffee and peppercorn as well as some forestry products.
Currently a government mining company is developing a bauxite mine in the area to produce aluminium. 11,000 billion VND (around 600 million USD) has been invested.
The majority of the people in the district are from various minority tribes: especially the Mạ people.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Bảo Lâm district, Lâm Đồng” is district of Lam Dong province, Vietnam. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through district, Đồng and Dong, not as a finished interpretation.
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