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Independence Palace. Ho Chi Minh City. Hanoi. 1976 – present. Vietnam. Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Presidential Palace. current capital. Some secondary unofficial capitals also existed throughout Vietnamese history.
Ho Chi Minh City ( HCMC; Vietnamese: Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh ), commonly referred to by its former name Saigon (Vietnamese: Sài Gòn ), is the most populous city in Vietnam, with a population of around 10 million in 2023. [7] The city's geography is defined by rivers and canals, of which the eponymously-named Saigon River is the largest.
Hanoi[a](Vietnamese: Hà Nộiⓘ) is the capitaland second-most populous cityof Vietnam. As evident by the literal translation of its name – 'inside the river'[17]– portions of Hanoi's border are delineated by the Redand Black Rivers. As a municipality, Hanoi consists of 12 urban districts, 17 rural districts, and one district-level town.
Vietnam, [d] [e] officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam ( SRV ), [f] is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about 331,000 square kilometres (128,000 sq mi) and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country.
A Hanoian by birth, Nga, 44, is one of many residents of Vietnam's capital whose daily routine is altered by heavy air pollution, which a global report released on Tuesday said is worsening.
The party chief of Vietnam's capital city Hanoi, Dinh Tien Dung, has resigned, the government said on Wednesday, marking the latest top official to exit as the ruling Communist Party carries out a ...
On September 2, 1945, at Duc Anh Ba Đình Square, Ho Chi Minh, leader of the Viet Minh organization, declared Vietnam's independence under the new name of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRVN) in a speech that invoked the United States Declaration of Independence and the French Revolution 's Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.
The history of Vietnam can be traced back to around 20,000 years ago. The first modern humans to arrive and settle in the area of modern-day Vietnam are known as the Hoabinhians, who can be traced as the ancestors of modern-day Negritos. Archaeological findings from 1965, which are still under research, show the remains of two hominins closely ...