Canal network
Waterways branch from the river through town and countryside, giving the map its defining pattern of thin, curving lines and frequent small bridges.
Minimalist map poster · Vietnam
A Mekong Delta river town laced with canals, where streets follow the water and flower gardens fill the edges.
10.2909° N / 105.7563° E





One city, five moods
Tap a style to see it on the wall. Every style is included in the same $9 price.
Actual pixels · 24 × 36″ HD filePrint-sharp
This is a crop of the real HD file at 100%. The paid download is rendered on our servers at 300 DPI, up to 7,200 × 10,800 pixels, so even the smallest lanes stay crisp on a 24 × 36″ print.
The map
Sa Dec lies close to the Tien River, a main branch of the Mekong, in Dong Thap province. Its map is organised by water. A river channel runs through the centre, smaller canals feed off it in every direction, and many streets run parallel to the banks rather than to any grid. Bridges knit the quarters together at short intervals, giving the plan a stitched appearance.
The town was an important trading post in the nineteenth century, and its riverfront still carries colonial-era shophouses. One house, that of the Huynh Thuy Le family, is known worldwide as the home of the man at the centre of Marguerite Duras's novel The Lover. Duras herself spent part of her childhood here, where her mother ran a school.
Just outside the centre, the Tan Quy Dong flower village supplies plants and cut flowers across the south, especially before Tet, and its fields appear on the map as fine, regular plots between canals. A Sa Dec map poster gathers river, streets and gardens into one calm image of delta life.
Waterways branch from the river through town and countryside, giving the map its defining pattern of thin, curving lines and frequent small bridges.
Older streets run along the banks, lined with shophouses, so the historic core follows the shape of the water rather than a planned grid.
Narrow garden beds and nurseries outside the centre form a fine striped texture, one of the most recognisable agricultural patterns in the delta.
Make it yours
Add a date, a name or a line of your own, switch style, size or orientation.
Free preview is low-resolution with a watermark. The HD version is 7,200 × 10,800 px, 300 DPI, no watermark.
Why Sa Dec
Readers of Duras, travellers who crossed the delta by boat and families with roots in Dong Thap all find something personal in this map. It shows a town best understood from the water, and it holds that view on the wall.
Put a name, a trip date or a line from a favourite book in the subtitle, and choose one of five styles. Blueprint makes the canals stand out clearly, while Paper and Sand give the delta a gentler, warmer feel.
Get the Sa Dec poster — $9| Print size | Resolution | Files |
|---|---|---|
| 30 × 40 cm | 3,543 × 4,724 px | PNG · PDF |
| 50 × 70 cm | 5,906 × 8,268 px | PNG · PDF |
| A3 · 29.7 × 42 cm | 3,508 × 4,961 px | PNG · PDF |
| A2 · 42 × 59.4 cm | 4,961 × 7,016 px | PNG · PDF |
| 18 × 24" | 5,400 × 7,200 px | PNG · PDF |
| 24 × 36" | 7,200 × 10,800 px | PNG · PDF |
For comparison, the free preview is 900 px wide, watermarked and meant for screens. The HD files have up to 8× the resolution in each direction and print cleanly at full poster size.
Yes. Drag and zoom the map in the editor — centre it on your neighbourhood, the old town or the whole metro area. The text updates independently.
The HD purchase includes 30×40 cm, 50×70 cm, A3, A2, 18×24″ and 24×36″, each as a 300 DPI PNG and a print-ready PDF.
You can download a free 900 px preview with a watermark. The paid HD files have no watermark and are sharp enough for large prints.
Send the PDF to any local print shop or online printing service and ask for the matching paper size. Matte paper and a thin black or oak frame suit this style best.
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