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A world capital of music, Vienna played host to composers such as Johannes Brahms, Anton Bruckner, Gustav Mahler, and Richard Strauss. The city's cultural contributions in the first half of the 20th century included, among many, the Vienna Secession movement in art, the Second Viennese School , the architecture of Adolf Loos , the philosophy of ...
Đà Lạt at Lâm Đồng Province during French colonial era as summer capital of Indochinese Federation, existed along with Hanoi capital; Việt Bắc at northern Vietnam during First Indochina War as Việt Minh's headquarter and de facto capital of Democratic Republic of Vietnam, existed along with de jure Hanoi capital
Vietnam, [e] [f] officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, [g] is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about 331,000 square kilometres (128,000 sq mi) and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country.
Almaty was the capital of Kazakhstan from 1991 to 1997 and its predecessor the Kazakh SSR from 1929 to 1991. Asunción Paraguay: South America: Athens Greece: Europe: Avarua Cook Islands: Oceania: Self-governing in free association with New Zealand. The capital is sometimes incorrectly stated as Rarotonga, the island on which Avarua is located ...
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).
Hanoi is the only capital of Southeast Asia with a subtropical climate. The region has a positive water balance (i.e. the precipitation exceeds the potential evapotranspiration). [72] [73] Hanoi averages 1,612 millimetres (63.5 in) of rainfall per year, the majority falling from May to October. There are an average of 114 days with rain. [70]
Capital of the exiled government Governor-general Simon de Anda during the Seven Years' War. Moved back to Manila Manila: Spanish East Indies: Philippines: 1764 1901 Ceded to the United States via Treaty of Paris: Jolo: Sulu Sultanate: Philippines: c. 1450 1899 Annexed by the United States Chiang Mai: Lan Na: Thailand: 1259 1775 Annexed by ...
Vinh (Vietnamese: ⓘ) is the capital of Nghệ An province and an economic and cultural center of North-Central Vietnam. [1] A key point in the East–West economic corridor linking Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam, the city is situated in the Southeast of the province, alongside the Lam River and is located on the main North–South transportation route of Vietnam, making it accessible by ...