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Administration map of Dien Ban District. Điện Bàn (listen ⓘ) is a district-level town of Quảng Nam Province in the South Central Coast region of Vietnam. As of 2015 the district had a population of 229,907. [1] The district covers an area of 214.71 km². The district capital lies at Vĩnh Điện. [1]
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).
In the 9th and 10th centuries, the Lự in Mường Thanh were the most developed in the area and controlled Sìn Hồ, Mường Lay, and Tuần Giáo. In the 11th and 12th centuries, Tai people (not to be confused with the Thai people of Thailand) from Mường Ôm and Mường Ai occupied Mường Lò in Nghĩa Lộ and Mường Thanh in ...
Điện Biên Phủ lies in Mường Thanh Valley, a 20 km (12 mi) long and 6 km (3.7 mi) wide basin sometimes described as "heart-shaped." It is on the western edge of Điện Biên Province, of which it is the capital, and is only about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from the border with Laos .
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Điện Biên (listen ⓘ) is a district of Vietnam's Điện Biên province.As of 2019, it had a population of 93,850 people, covering an area of 1395.99 km², [1] making it the most populous district in the province.
The district lies in the southeastern part of Điện Biên Province, to the immediate southeast of Điện Biên Phủ City, south of Tuần Giáo district, east of Điện Biên district, north/northwest of Sốp Cộp district and west of Sông Mã district and Thuận Châu district in Sơn La province.
Điện Biên Phủ Airport was established in 1954 as Mường Thanh Airfield. The main purpose of it is to serve the French HQ in Điện Biên Phủ at the time of the First Indochina War . 4 years after the French left Điện Biên Phủ, in 1958, commercial flights to the airport started, operated by the Air Force , but only for a while ...