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Châu Đốc treats Châu Đốc, on the Cambodian border in north-western An Giang Province, as a historical cannabis growing area: the place where Marie Alexandrine Martin reported cultivation as important in 1973. It has no parent growing region. The town and ward of Châu Đốc as administrative units are not covered here.

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Why the area is on the map

Martin, Ethnobotanical Aspects of Cannabis in Southeast Asia (1975), p. 67: "In Vietnam, it is important in Chaudec, a Cambodian border region." This is her only statement about where cannabis was grown in Vietnam.
On the Cambodian side, p. 66: "along the river and closer to Vietnam, cultivation of these plants is of greater importance."
No accession or news item comes from the area. No other source read places cannabis growing at Châu Đốc.

Growing status

The status is Historical: the one account of growing there describes the early 1970s. Martin's chapter gives exchange rates "in April 1973" and calls the Phnom Penh Bureau of Narcotics, created in July 1972, "created last year", so it describes the situation in 1973. Searches of the Vietnamese press for cannabis grown in An Giang, Châu Đốc, Tịnh Biên and Tri Tôn found reports of smuggling across the border but none of growing, and nothing read says that growing ended. Martin gives no year, so the infobox carries no years of growing.

How the border is drawn

The border is a proxy. Martin calls Chaudec a region, not a town. When she wrote, Châu Đốc was a province of the Republic of Vietnam on the Cambodian border, re-created in 1964 with five districts (Châu Phú, Tân Châu, Tri Tôn, Tịnh Biên and An Phú) and merged into An Giang in 1976.
The border is drawn on the units that held that province until 2025: An Phú, Tân Châu, Phú Tân, Châu Đốc city, Châu Phú, Tịnh Biên and Tri Tôn (OpenStreetMap historic boundary relations 7147162, 7147170, 7147176, 7147138, 7147133, 7146822 and 7146980, as they stood until 30 June 2025), about 2,214 km², the figure in the infobox rounded.
It is approximate. The 1964 province included a small area now in Kiên Giang Province, which the border leaves out, and the border takes in the whole of the later Châu Phú district, whose Bình Thủy commune lay outside the province.
The coordinates in the infobox are a point inside the proxy, not a place Martin names.
The border is not drawn from accession or news points. None exists.

The neighbouring region

Across the border lies the Southern Cambodia growing region, whose Bayong Kor range in Takéo Province lies on the Vietnamese border. Martin describes the two sides in separate passages, so the page is not placed in that region.

The name

The page takes the Vietnamese name with its diacritics. Martin spells it Chaudec; Chau Doc is the unaccented form.

Sources

Martin's chapter was read in full (pp. 63–75). Jeremy Kuzmarov's article on the drug war in Vietnam (Journal of Policy History 20, 2008, pp. 344–378) cites United States Public Safety files on marijuana destruction and suppression in South Vietnam and a 1969 assessment of the "Hoa-Hao problem"; its full text could not be reached and it is not used. The province's districts, dates and later units are from the Vietnamese Wikipedia article Châu Đốc (tỉnh), read on 19 October 2026.