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District 6 (Vietnamese: Quận 6) is an urban district of Ho Chi Minh City, the largest city in Vietnam. As of 2010, the district had a population of 253,474 and an area of 7 km². [ 1 ] It is divided into 14 small subsets which are called wards (phường) , numbered from Ward 1 to Ward 14.
Trần Bạch Đằng (born Truong Gia Trieu) (1926 – April 16, 2007) was a key figure in planning the 1968 Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War, and was the leader of Communist forces in Saigon, the South Vietnamese capital, during that offensive.
In 2011, she was one of two winners of the Kovalevskaya Prize, an annual award to promote women in the sciences in Vietnam. [2] [3] [4] [6] The award is named after Russian mathematician Sofia Kovalevskaya and was established in 1985 by mathematician Neal Koblitz and his wife Ann Hibner Koblitz, based on the profits from Ann Koblitz' biography of Kovalevskaya.