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Panoramic view of the bridge The bridge, not long after completion Long Biên Bridge in 2010 The constructor panel of Daydé & Pillé, Paris. Long Biên Bridge (Vietnamese: Cầu Long Biên) is a historic cantilever bridge across the Red River that connects two districts, Hoàn Kiếm and Long Biên of the city of Hanoi, Vietnam.
Between 1872 and 1889, many bridges were designed by the Eiffel company, created in 1863 by Gustave Eiffel, when Vietnam was part of the French Indochina.However, some works are inadvertently attributed to the Eiffel company, the Truong Tien Bridge was designed by the company Schneider et Cie and Cie de Letellier while the Long Biên Bridge was designed by Daydé et Pillé [], the latter ...
Long Biên is an urban district (quận) of Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. [3] The district currently has 14 wards , covering a total area of 59.82 square kilometres (23.10 sq mi). [ 1 ] As of 2019, [ 2 ] there were 322,549 people residing in the district, the population density is 5,400 inhabitants per square kilometer.
Long Biên is sometimes given as the provincial capital instead, [8] but this did not occur until the time of Shi Xie in the transition between the Han dynasty and Three Kingdoms period. [note 1] Long Biên was the capital of Jiaozhi Commandery and Longbian County, but it was not named before the erection of its citadel in AD 208. [3]
Long Biên station is a railway station in Hoàn Kiếm District, Hanoi, Vietnam, at the western end of Long Biên Bridge.It is one of the two main railway stations of Hanoi, the other being the Hanoi central station which mostly serves the north-south route (to Ho Chi Minh City) and the north-west route (to Lao Cai).
Long Biên later gave its name to the famed Long Biên Bridge, built during French colonial times, and more recently to a new district to the east of the Red River. Several older names of Hanoi feature long (龍, transl. dragon), linked to the curved formation of the Red River around the city, which was symbolized as a dragon. [17] [14] [18]
Category: Bridges in Hanoi. ... Thăng Long Bridge; Thanh Trì Bridge; V. Vĩnh Tuy Bridge This page was last edited on 19 May 2023, at 08:59 (UTC). ...
Thăng Long Bridge seen from Dong Ngac street The Thăng Long Bridge ( Cầu Thăng Long , completed 1978) is a bridge in Hanoi , Vietnam, which connects the city with Noi Bai Airport . [ 1 ]