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District 10 ( Vietnamese: Quận 10) is an urban district ( quận) of Ho Chi Minh City, the largest city in Vietnam . As of 2017, the district had a population of 239,053 and an area of 5.7181 km 2, occupying 0.24% of the city's total land area. [1] It is divided into 15 small subsets which are called wards (phường), numbered from Ward 1 to ...
Madame Nhu. Trần Lệ Xuân (22 August 1924 [ 2] – 24 April 2011), more popularly known in English as Madame Nhu, was the de facto First Lady of South Vietnam from 1955 to 1963. She was the wife of Ngô Đình Nhu, who was the brother and chief advisor to President Ngô Đình Diệm. As Diệm was a lifelong bachelor and because she and ...
Quảng Trị ( Vietnamese: [kwaːŋ˧˩ ʈi˧˨ʔ] ⓘ) is a coastal province near the southernmost part of the North Central Coast region, the Central of Vietnam, north of the former imperial capital of Huế. It borders Quảng Bình to the north, Thừa Thiên Huế to the south, Savannakhet of Laos to the west and the East Sea to the east ...
Quảng Bình province. / 17.500°N 106.333°E / 17.500; 106.333. Quảng Bình ( Vietnamese: [kwaːŋ˧˩ ʔɓïŋ˨˩] ⓘ) is a southern coastal province in the North Central Coast region, the Central of Vietnam. It borders Hà Tĩnh to the north, Quảng Trị to the south, Khammouane of Laos to the west and the East Sea ( Gulf of ...
t. e. The provinces of Vietnam are subdivided into second-level administrative units, namely districts ( Vietnamese: huyện ), provincial cities ( thành phố trực thuộc tỉnh ), and district-level towns ( thị xã ). The centrally-controlled municipalities (the other first-level division, in addition to provinces) are subdivided into ...
Vietnam holds the second-highest number of World Heritage Sites in Southeast Asia, after Indonesia with ten sites. [3] The Complex of Huế Monuments was the first site in Vietnam to be inscribed on the list at the 17th session of the World Heritage Committee held in Colombia in 1993. [4]
The Vietnamese government often groups the various provinces and municipalities into three regions: Northern Vietnam, Central Vietnam, and Southern Vietnam.These regions can be further subdivided into eight subregions: Northeast Vietnam, Northwest Vietnam, the Red River Delta, the North Central Coast, the South Central Coast, the Central Highlands, Southeast Vietnam, and the Mekong River Delta.
Huế ( Vietnamese: [hwě] ⓘ) is the capital of Thừa Thiên Huế province in the North Central Coast region of Vietnam, located near the center of Vietnam. The original site was a Cham city known as Kandarpapura and later as Amarendrapura and was the capital of the Champa Kingdom from 192 to 605. Following the conquest of city in 1307 by ...