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Geography of Vietnam. Vietnam is located on the eastern margin of the Indochinese peninsula and occupies about 331,211.6 square kilometres (127,881.5 sq mi), of which about 25% was under cultivation in 1987. It borders the Gulf of Tonkin, Gulf of Thailand, and Pacific Ocean, along with China, Laos, and Cambodia.
Hanoi [a] ( Vietnamese: Hà Nội ⓘ) is the capital and second-most populous city of Vietnam. As evident by the literal translation of its name – 'inside the river' [17] – portions of Hanoi's border are delineated by the Red and Black Rivers. As a municipality, Hanoi consists of 12 urban districts, 17 rural districts, and one district ...
The President Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum ( Vietnamese: Lăng Chủ tịch Hồ Chí Minh) is a mausoleum which serves as the resting place of Vietnamese revolutionary leader and President Ho Chi Minh in Hanoi, Vietnam. [1] [2] It is a large building located in the center of Ba Dinh Square, where Ho, Chairman of the Workers' Party of Vietnam from ...
Google Street View covers most regencies and cities in Sumatra (except Aceh ), Java, Nusa Tenggara Islands, Borneo, Sulawesi, and parts of North Maluku (includes Ternate, Tidore, and parts of Halmahera ). In October 2019, Google excluded and removed most of the Street View images of Aceh due to a controversial incident. [18]
Cổ Loa Citadel ( Vietnamese: Thành Cổ Loa) is an important fortified settlement and archaeological site in present-day Hanoi 's Đông Anh district, roughly 17 kilometers north of present-day Hanoi, in the upper plain north of the Red River. [1] Various relics of the Bronze Age Phùng Nguyên culture and Đông Sơn culture have been found ...
The Imperial Citadel of Thăng Long ( Vietnamese: Hoàng thành Thăng Long; chữ Hán: 皇城 昇龍) is a complex of historic buildings associated with the history of Vietnam located in the centre of Hanoi, Vietnam. Its construction began in 1010 and was completed in early 1011 under the reign of Emperor Lý Thái Tổ of the Lý dynasty .
The reddish-brown heavily silt-laden water gives the river its name. The Red River is notorious for its violent floods with its seasonally wide volume fluctuations. Intense seasonal floods are made worse by erosion, development, and pollution. The delta is a major agricultural area of Vietnam with vast area devoted to rice.
The National Assembly Building of Vietnam ( Vietnamese: Tòa nhà Quốc hội Việt Nam ), officially the National Assembly House ( Nhà Quốc hội) [6] and also known as the New Ba Đình Hall ( Hội trường Ba Đình mới ), is a public building located on Ba Đình Square across from the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi, Vietnam.