Former provincial city and capital of the former Long An province, Vietnam

Tân An

Tân An is a former provincial city and capital of the former Long An province in Mekong Delta region of Vietnam.

Plan a trip to Tân An→From Ho Chi Minh City

Every way there

Ho Chi Minh City → Tân An
40 km · quickest by road, 1h · ₫45,900–61,200
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Can Tho → Tân An
88 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · ₫114,000–152,000
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Phu Quoc Island → Tân An
265 km · quickest by air, 5h 32m · ₫1,462,980–2,251,370
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Tân An, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Tân An has

YScheduled flightsHo Chi Minh City (SGN), 41 km
NTrains and coachesno timetable feed known for this country
YFerriesĐò, 16 km; sailings estimated
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Mỹ Tho, 20 km.

10.533°, 106.417°

It was upgraded from town status to city status on 26 August 2009. The population of Tân An is 165,214 as of 2009, with an area of 81.79 km2.

How locals move

Getting around Tân An the local way

Get aroundOnly cruises/ferries between Cai Be and Can Tho, as well as Ben Tre and My Tho exist.
Get aroundYou can also usually rent bikes in each town for day trips, or maybe even for a few days at a time.
Go nextMost travellers visit the Mekong Delta as a two or three-day trip from Ho Chi Minh City.

From Wikivoyage: Southern Vietnam, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-04.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Slaunger (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.