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During the existence of the General Headquarters of the Vietnam People's Army (Bộ Tổng tư lệnh Quân đội Nhân dân Việt Nam), which had been the supreme commanding organ of the armed forces from 1946 to 1975, the General Staff was directly under the General Headquarters and acted as staff of the General Headquarters according to ...
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).
Map of Thăng Long. Atlas of Hồng Đức, known in Vietnamese as Hồng Đức bản đồ sách (chữ Hán: 洪德版圖冊), sometimes called the Geography of Hồng Đức is a set of geographic maps of Dai Viet issued during the reign of Lê Thánh Tông, the 21st year of Hồng Đức era (1490). [1]
In the early Lý dynasty, in 545, the emperor Lý Nam Đế settled his encampment, and built a wooden raft on the Tô Lịch River to defend against invasion of the Liang dynasty. During the Nguyễn dynasty , Emperor Minh Mạng established the province of Hanoi in Hoàn Kiếm in 1831.
Vietnam, [e] [f] officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, [g] [h] 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.
Hòa Bình or Hoà Bình (see tone marks) is a mountainous province of Vietnam, located in the nation's Northwest region. It borders Phú Thọ province and Sơn La province to the northwest, Hanoi to the northeast, Hà Nam province to the east, Ninh Bình province to the southeast and Thanh Hóa province to the south.
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A large part of Đồng Nai Biosphere Reserve, include Nam Cát Tiên, is located in Dong Nai province. [19] Tri An Dam provides electricity, reduces flooding, and produces drinking water. As a result of the Vietnam War, some areas around Bien Hoa Air Base were dioxin pollution. The authorities are trying to clean up these areas. [20]