Peninsula · Van Ninh
Hon Gom Peninsula
Bán đảo Hòn Gốm
Hon Gom Peninsula (Bán đảo Hòn Gốm) shelters Van Phong Bay on its west side while facing the open East Sea to its east, in Dai Lanh commune, in the north of Khanh Hoa province, Vietnam[1]. The independent travel guide Vietnam Coracle describes it as projecting almost 30 km into the East Sea[6]; no official government figure for its length was found. OpenStreetMap places the peninsula at about 12.648° N, 109.425° E[7]. Mui Doi, the easternmost point of the Vietnamese mainland, lies at its tip and is covered in its own article[2].
The peninsula's base holds Dam Mon, a natural area of 128 km² with about 20 islands, named by Vietnamese Wikipedia as including Hon Ong, Hon Lon, Hon Do and Hon Sang, and areas of primary forest, organised into the hamlets of Dam Mon Ha, Dam Mon Thuong and Xuan Dung[1]. Dam Mon's own water surface is under 1,000 ha, against 80,000 ha for the whole of Van Phong Bay, and is sheltered by the peninsula from the wind[1]. Beyond fishing, the same source describes the farming of lobster, cobia and oysters[1].
The peninsula lies within the Van Phong Economic Zone, established across the bay's shore by Prime Ministerial Decision 92/2006/QĐ-TTg of 25 April 2006[4]. In June 2025 the Prime Minister approved a Dam Mon new urban area on the peninsula, at an estimated cost of about 25,645 billion VND, alongside a separate Tu Bong new urban area of about 43,000 billion VND on the mainland shore of the bay[5].
Geography
Hon Gom Peninsula runs almost 30 km from its base near Dam Mon to its tip at Mui Doi, according to the independent travel guide Vietnam Coracle, whose author gives no further source for the figure beyond the guide's own description[6]; no official government length figure was found. OpenStreetMap's search index places the peninsula at about 12.648° N, 109.425° E[7]. The peninsula shelters Van Phong Bay to its west and faces the open East Sea to its east[1].
The peninsula's base holds Dam Mon, a natural area of 128 km² with about 20 large and small islands, including Hon Ong, Hon Lon, Hon Do and Hon Sang, and areas of primary forest, organised into the hamlets of Dam Mon Ha, Dam Mon Thuong and Xuan Dung[1]. Dam Mon's own water surface is under 1,000 ha, against 80,000 ha for the whole of Van Phong Bay, and is sheltered by the peninsula from the wind[1]. A flat, sandy beach about 2 km long at Dam Mon is described by Vietnamese Wikipedia as the area best suited to port infrastructure, the rest of the shore being mountain and rock[1].
Economy
Beyond fishing, Vietnamese Wikipedia describes the farming of lobster, cobia and oysters at Dam Mon[1]. The peninsula lies within the Van Phong Economic Zone, established across the bay's shore by Prime Ministerial Decision 92/2006/QĐ-TTg of 25 April 2006[4]. In June 2025 the Prime Minister approved a Dam Mon new urban area on the peninsula, at an estimated cost of about 25,645 billion VND, alongside a separate Tu Bong new urban area of about 43,000 billion VND on the mainland shore of the bay[5].
Administration
Since Vietnam's 1 July 2025 administrative reform the peninsula has formed part of Dai Lanh commune, which Resolution 1667/NQ-UBTVQH15 of 16 June 2025 arranged out of the whole of the former Van Thanh, Van Tho and Dai Lanh communes as a new commune of the same name, operating from 1 July 2025[9], with an area of 171.04 km² and a 2025 population of 25,644[3]. Before the reform the peninsula was administered as part of Van Ninh district, an area of 550 km² with a population of 134,820 and forest cover of about 75 per cent, according to Vietnamese Wikipedia's now-superseded district-level article[8].
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Sources
Every figure in this article is cited to one of these pages, listed in order of first use, with the date it was read.
See also
- Van Phong BayBay
- Mui DoiCape
- Van Phong Economic ZoneEconomic zone
- Hon OngIsland
- Diep Son IslandIsland
- Cam Ranh BayBay