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Nam Định (listen ⓘ) is a city in the Red River Delta of northern Vietnam. It is the capital of Nam Định Province. The city of Nam Định is 90 km southeast of Vietnam's capital, Hanoi. From August 18–20 of each year, there is a festival held in Nam Định called the Cố Trạch.
Lê Đức Thọ. Lê Đức Thọ ( Vietnamese: [lē ɗɨ̌k tʰɔ̂ˀ] ⓘ; English: Lay-Duhk-Toh; 14 October 1911 – 13 October 1990), born Phan Đình Khải in Nam Dinh Province, was a Vietnamese revolutionary general, diplomat, and politician. [ 2] He was the first Asian to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, jointly with United States ...
Cần Thơ, also written as Can Tho or Cantho ( standard Vietnamese: [kən˨˩ tʰəː˧˧], Southern: [kʌŋ˨˩ tʰəː] ), is the fourth-largest city in Vietnam, and the largest city along the Mekong Delta region in Vietnam. [ 6 ][ 7 ] It is noted for its floating markets, rice paper -making village, and picturesque rural canals. [ 7 ]
The least populous is Bắc Kạn, a mountainous province in the remote northeast with 338,000 people. In land area, the largest province is Nghệ An, which runs from the city of Vinh up the wide Sông Cả valley. The smallest is Bắc Ninh, located in the populous Red River Delta region.
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 ...
A traditional Tho dress. The Thổ people are a heterogeneous mix of different Vietic peoples. Around the end of the 17th century, Vietnam experienced multiple social upheavals that caused multiple migrations of Viet and Muong peoples into territory of other Vietic speaking ethnic minorities such as the Cuối and intermixed with the local populations.
Vietnamese Martyrs (Vietnamese: Các Thánh Tử đạo Việt Nam; French: Martyrs du Viêt Nam), or in the current Roman Missal as Saint Andrew Dung-Lac and Companions (Vietnamese: Anrê Dũng-Lạc và các bạn tử đạo), also known as the Martyrs of Annam, Martyrs of Tonkin and Cochinchina, collectively Martyrs of Indochina, are saints on the General Roman Calendar who were canonized ...
The Ho Chi Minh City–Cần Thơ express railway ( Vietnamese: Đường sắt cao tốc Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh - Cần Thơ) is a proposed high speed railway in Vietnam. The line would begin in Ho Chi Minh City, crossing provinces and municipalities of Ho Chi Minh City, Long An, Tiền Giang, Vĩnh Long, Cần Thơ. The rail line would ...