Đà Lạt

Đà Lạt Thành phố Đà Lạt
Provincial City
Da Lat Market (left) on Hoa Binh Square
Nickname(s): City of a Thousand Flowers, City of a Thousand Palms, City in the Fog, Little Paris
Đà Lạt Location of Đà Lạt
Coordinates: 11°56′30″N 108°26′18″E / 11.94167°N 108.43833°E / 11.94167; 108.43833
Country	Vietnam
Province	Lâm Đồng
Region	Central Highlands
Demonym	Dalatese
Area
• Provincial City	394.64 km2 (152.37 sq mi)
Elevation	1,500 m (4,900 ft)
Population (2011)
• Provincial City	211,696
• Density	536.4/km2 (1,389/sq mi)
• Urban	191,803
Website	http://www.dalat.gov.vn/

Đà Lạt (Vietnamese pronunciation: [ɗâː làːt]), or Dalat (pop. 206,105 as of 2009^[update], of which 185,509 are urban inhabitants), is the capital of Lâm Đồng Province in Vietnam. The city is located 1,500 m (4,900 ft) above sea level on the Langbian Plateau in the southern parts of the Central Highlands region. In Vietnam, Da Lat is a popular tourist destination.

Da Lat's specific sights are pine wood (forming the name: "City of thousands of pine trees") with twisting roads and tree marigold (Vietnamese: dã quỳ) blossom in the winter. The city’s temperate weather stands in contrast to Vietnam's otherwise tropical climate. Mist covering the valleys almost year-round leads to its name "City of Eternal Spring".

Da Lat is also known as an area for scientific research in the fields of biotechnology and nuclear physics.

With its year-round cool weather, Da Lat supplies temperate agriculture products for all over Vietnam, for example: cabbage and cauliflower. Its flower industry produces two typical flowers: hydrangea (Vietnamese: cẩm tú cầu) and golden everlasting (Vietnamese: hoa bất tử). The confectionery industry offers a wide range of mứt, a kind of fruit preserve that closely resembles varenie, made from strawberry, mulberry, sweet potato, and/or rose.