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Central Vietnam ( Vietnamese: Trung Bộ or miền Trung ), also known as Middle Vietnam or The Middle, formerly known as Trung Phần by South Vietnam, Trung Kỳ and Annam under French Indochina, is one of the three geographical regions within Vietnam . The name Trung Bộ was used by the emperor Bảo Đại when he established ...
Tịnh Xá Trung Tâm Pagoda. Tịnh Xá Trung Tâm is a Buddhist temple in Ho Chi Minh City, the largest city in Vietnam. It was founded in 1965 and is the spiritual birthplace of the khất sĩ tradition of Vietnamese Buddhism that attempts to recreate the original tradition of the Buddhist sangha by walking barefoot and begging for alms.
100,820. • Density. 820.3/km 2 (2,125/sq mi) Climate. Cwa. Bỉm Sơn is a district-level town ( thị xã) of Thanh Hóa province in the North Central Coast region of Vietnam. As of 2003 the district had a population of 54,084. [ 1] The district covers an area of 67 km². The district capital lies at Bỉm Sơn.
Bắc Ninh (Vietnamese: [ʔɓak̚˧˦ nïŋ˧˧] ⓘ) is a province of Vietnam, located in the Red River Delta of the northern part of the country. It is the smallest province of Vietnam by area and is situated to the east of the nation's capital, Hanoi, and borders Bắc Giang province, Hưng Yên province, Hải Dương province and Hanoi.
Saigon Central Post Office. Coordinates: 10°46′48″N 106°42′0″E. The Saigon Central Post Office ( Vietnamese: Bưu điện Trung tâm Sài Gòn, French: Poste centrale de Saïgon ), is a post office in downtown Ho Chi Minh City, near Saigon Notre-Dame Basilica, the city's cathedral.
Thanh Hóa (Vietnamese: [tʰajŋ̟˧˧ hwaː˧˦] ⓘ) is the northernmost coastal province in the North Central Coast region of Central Vietnam.It borders Sơn La, Hòa Bình, and Ninh Bình to the north, Nghệ An to the south, the Laotian province of Houaphanh to the west with a boundary of over 192 kilometres (119 mi) long, and the South China Sea (Gulf of Tonkin) to the east.
The Hoa had constituted the largest ethnic minority group in the mid 20th century and its population had previously peaked at 1.2 million, or about 2.6% of Vietnam's population in 1976 a year following the end of the Vietnam War. Just 3 years later, the Hoa population dropped to 935,000 as large swathes of Hoa left Vietnam.
On the first tier, Vietnam is divided into fifty-eight provinces (tỉnh) and five municipalities under the command of the central government (Vietnamese: thành phố trực thuộc trung ương). Municipalities are the highest-ranked cities in Vietnam. [1] Municipalities are centrally-controlled cities and have special status equal to the ...