Phu Quoc Island in Vietnam

Phú Quốc is the largest island in Vietnam. Phú Quốc and nearby islands, along with distant Thổ Chu Islands, is part of Kiên Giang Province as Phú Quốc District, the district has a total area of 574 sq. kilometres (222 sq mi) and a permanent population of roughly 103,000.

 Located in the Gulf of Siam, the district of Phú Quốc includes the island proper and twenty one smaller islets. The district seat, Dương Đông, is located on the geographic area, and is also the biggest city on the island. The economy is centered on fishing, agriculture and a fast-growing business enterprise sector.

From March 2014, Vietnam allows all foreign tourists to visit Phú Quốc visa-free for a amount of up to thirty days.

Phú Quốc lies south of the Cambodian coast, west of Kampot, and 40 kilometre west of HA Tien, the nearest coastal town in Vietnam. Roughly triangular in shape the island is fifty kilometres (31 mi) long from north to south and twenty five kilometres (16 mi) from east to west in the north at its widest. It is also settled sixty two shipping miles (115 km; seventy one mi) from Rạch Giá and nearly 290 shipping miles (540 km; 330 mi) from Laem Chabang, Thailand.

A mountainous ridge known as "99 Peaks" runs the length of Phú Quốc, with Chúa Mountain being the tallest at 603 metres (1,978 ft).

Phu Quoc Island is mainly composed of substance rocks from the Mesozoic era and geological era age, including heterogeneous conglomerate composition, layering thick, quartz pebbles, silica, limestone, riolit and felsit. The Mesozoic rocks square measure classified in Phu Quoc Formation (K pq). The Cenozoic sediments square measure classified in formations of Long Toan (middle - higher Pleistocene), Long My, (upper Pleistocene), Hau Giang (lower - middle Holocene), upper Recent epoch sediments, and undivided Quaternary (Q).

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