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Hanoi Capital Region or Hanoi Metropolitan Area (Vietnamese: Vùng thủ đô Hà Nội) is a metropolitan area currently planned by the government of Vietnam. This metropolitan area was created by decision 490/QD-TTg dated May 5, 2008 of the Prime Minister of Vietnam .
Thanh Xuân is an urban district (quận) of Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam. [3] The district currently has 11 wards , covering a total area of 9.09 square kilometres (3.51 sq mi). [ 1 ] As of 2019, [ 2 ] there were 293,524 people residing in the district, the population density is 32,000 inhabitants per square kilometer.
The legislative branch of a province is the People's Council (Hội đồng Nhân dân or HDND for short). The People's Council votes on the policy, regulations and orders for development of the province.
This list contains the names of Vietnamese provinces and province-level municipalities in Quốc ngữ script and the (now obsolete) Hán-Nôm characters. For geographic and demographic data, please see Provinces of Vietnam.
Hanoi has had various names throughout history. It was known first as Long Biên (龍編, lit. ' dragons interweaving '), then Tống Bình (宋平, lit. ' Song pacification ') and Long Đỗ (龍肚, lit.
ISO 3166-2:VN is the entry for Vietnam in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.
Hoàn Kiếm is the downtown and commercial center of Hanoi. Most of the largest Vietnamese public corporations and bank headquarters are located here, but the central government offices are located in Ba Đình district. The Hanoi Metropolitan People's Committee is located on Đinh Tiên Hoàng street, adjacent to the Hoàn Kiếm lake.
Phú Thọ province, due to its strategic location, is often called the "West Gate of Hanoi". Its location is at the confluence of two large rivers namely, the Red and Da Rivers; this province links the northern provinces of the Red River delta with the country's mountainous provinces and also the two Chinese provinces of Guangxi and Yunnan. [5]