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District 11 (Vietnamese: Quận 11) is an urban district of Ho Chi Minh City, the largest city in Vietnam. As of 2010, the district had a population of 232,536 and an area of 5 km². [ 1 ] It is divided into 16 small subsets which are called wards (phường) , numbered from Ward 1 to Ward 16.
It borders Phú Nhuận and District 3 to the east, Tân Phú to the west, District 10 and District 11 to the south, District 12 and Gò Vấp to the north. Most of the district landscape is flat. The average terrain height is 4–5 m (13–16 ft) with the highest natural elevation being around 8–9 m (26–30 ft) in the area of Tân Sơn ...
On 11 November 1960, Colonels Vương Văn Đông and Nguyễn Chánh Thi launched a coup attempt against President Ngô Đình Diệm, but after surrounding the palace, they stopped attacking and decided to negotiate a power-sharing agreement. Diệm falsely promised reform, allowing time for loyalists to come to the rescue.
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng is married to Trần Thanh Kiệm and has three children: [29] [30] Nguyễn Thanh Nghị (born 1976) is a George Washington University alumnus. Nghị is currently the Minister of Construction. [31] Nguyễn Thanh Phượng (born 1981) is the founder and Chairwoman of VietCapital Securities and VietCapital Asset Management ...
Bình Thạnh is a district of Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam.As of 2017, the district had a population of 490,618 and a total area of 21 km 2. [1]The name of the district was formed from the names of two wards in the old Gò Vấp district, Bình Hòa and Thạnh Mỹ Tây.
Phạm Duy (5 October 1921 – 27 January 2013) was one of Vietnam's most prolific songwriters with a musical career that spanned more than seven decades through some of the most turbulent periods of Vietnamese history and with more than one thousand songs to his credit, [1] he is widely considered one of the three most salient and influential figures of modern Vietnamese music, along with ...
Tân Phú is an urban district of Hồ Chí Minh City, Vietnam.As of 2010, the district has a population of 407,924 [1] and covers an area of 16 km². [1] The district is divided into 11 small subsets which are called wards.
In May, in the heavily Buddhist central city of Huế – the seat of Diệm's elder brother as the local Catholic archbishop – the Buddhist majority was prohibited from displaying Buddhist flags during Vesak celebrations commemorating the birth of Gautama Buddha when the government cited a regulation prohibiting the display of non-government ...