Fansipan Mountain

Fansipan (Vietnamese: Phan Xi P?ng, listen) is a mountain in Vietnam. The height of the mountain was 3,143 metres (10,312 ft) in 1909, but now the height of the mountain is 3,147.3 metres (10,326 ft). It is the highest mountain in the Indochinese Peninsula (comprising Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia), hence its nickname "the Roof of Indochina". It is located in the Lào Cai Province of the Northwest region of Vietnam, 9 km (5.6 mi) southwest of Sa Pa in the Hoang Lien Son mountain range. Administratively, it is shared between Tam ???ng district, Lai Châu and Sa Pa town, Lào Cai.

The origin of the name Phan Xi P?ng is unclear. The most accepted theory is that it evolved from H?a Xi Pan (the tottering giant rock) ? the name that the locals called the mountain based on its shape. Another theory suggested that the name came from the Hmong people, as it means Azalea Mountain in their language due to the prevalence of azalea and other species of Rhododendron genus on the mountain.[2]