Cantho

a city in southern Vietnam, in the Mekong Delta on the Bassac River; administrative center of Can Tho Autonomous Municipality (Nam Phan Region). Population, 110, 000 (1969). Can Tho is the center of a rice-growing area. Rice is processed and coconut oil is manufactured in the city; a soap-making factory and tobacco enterprises are also there. Can Tho has an experimental agricultural station. It is a river port.