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West Lake (Vietnamese: Hồ Tây) is the biggest freshwater lake of Hanoi, Vietnam, located northwest of the city center.With a shore length of 17 kilometres (11 mi) and 500 hectares (5.0 km 2) in area, this is the largest lake of the capital and a popular place for recreation with many surrounding gardens, hotels and villas.
Trúc Bạch Lake (Vietnamese: Hồ Trúc Bạch) is one of the many lakes in the city of Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam.It is known outside Vietnam as the site where future United States politician John McCain landed during the Vietnam War after being shot down.
Phúc Thọ rural district is bordered by Đan Phượng district to the east, Sơn Tây town to the west, Thạch Thất district to the south, Quốc Oai district and Hoài Đức district to the southeast, Vĩnh Phúc province to the north.
Tây Hồ (West Lake) is an urban district (quận) located on the north side of central Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam. [5] The district wraps around the West Lake (hồ Tây), one of the largest natural lakes of Vietnam.
Đầm Sen Lake. Dam Sen Cultural Park (Vietnamese: Công viên Văn hóa Đầm Sen) is an amusement park located in District 11, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The park has an area of 50 hectares, of which 20% comprises lakes and 60% trees and gardens.
Its name Hà Tây was grafted from "Hà Đông" and "Sơn Tây", two old provinces in the Gulf of Tonkin. The province was dissolved and both Hà Tây and Hòa Bình reverted into separate provinces on August 12, 1991. On May 29, 2008 the decision was made to subsume Hà Tây into the city of Hanoi. The merger took place on August 1, 2008. [1]
This article may need to be rewritten to comply with Wikipedia's quality standards, as rather than this GNIS "community" crapola, it was a private vacation resort — hotel, rentable cottages, and beach on the Ohio — operated by Joseph Rogers and family in the 1920s according to the very same cited book Murray 2011, pp. 47, 57, 60.
Xuân La is an archaeological site in Tây Hồ District of Hanoi, near ancient Hà Đông in the Red River Delta in northern Vietnam. Excavations there yielded a number of coffins containing relics of the Bronze Age Đông Sơn culture. [1] [2] Xuan La is located only a short distance of 10 km from Châu Can, both formerly in Hà Tây Province.