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District 1 (Quận 1, Quận Một, Quận Nhất or Quận Nhứt) is the central urban district of Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), the largest city in Vietnam. With a total area of 7.7211 km 2 (2.9811 sq mi) the district has a population of 204,899 people as of 2010. [1] The district is divided into 10 small subsets which are called wards ...
Kunyu Wanguo Quantu, printed in Ming China at the request of the Wanli Emperor in 1602 by the Italian Catholic missionary Matteo Ricci and Chinese collaborators, the mandarin Zhong Wentao, and the technical translator Li Zhizao, is the earliest known Chinese world map with the style of European maps. [1]
The centrally-controlled municipalities (the other first-level division, in addition to provinces) are subdivided into rural districts (huyện), district-level towns, and urban districts (quận) that are further subdivided into wards (phường). The district (huyện) unit dates from the 15th century.
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. The district currently has 8 wards, covering a total area of 24.39 square kilometres (9.42 sq mi). [1]
National Route 1 (Vietnamese: Quốc lộ 1 (or abbrv.QL.1) or Đường 1), also known as National Route 1A, is the trans-Vietnam highway.The route begins at km 0 at Hữu Nghị Quan Border Gate near the China-Vietnam border, [1] runs the length of the country connecting major cities including Hanoi, Da Nang and Ho Chi Minh City, and ends at km 2301.34 [citation needed] at Năm Căn township ...
District 3 (Vietnamese: Quận 3) is an urban district of Ho Chi Minh City, the largest city in Vietnam. Together with District 1, District 3 is considered the bustling heart of the city, with a multitude of businesses, religious sites, historical buildings and tourist attractions.
Phú Nhuận is one of the nineteen urban districts in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.It is densely populated, with 180,100 inhabitants in an area of just 4.88 km 2.Phú Nhuận district is sometimes considered the center of Ho Chi Minh City due to its central location from all of the surrounding districts.
The Kunyu Quantu, 1672 version (Biblioteca Marciana Venice) The Kunyu Quantu, 1674 version. The Kunyu Quantu (simplified Chinese: 坤舆全图; traditional Chinese: 坤輿全圖; pinyin: Kūnyú Quántú), or Full Map of the World, was a map of the world developed by Jesuit father Ferdinand Verbiest during his mission in China in 1674. [1]