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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 ...
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.
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 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]
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.
Tân Bình is situated within the urban core of Ho Chi Minh City. It borders Phú Nhuận and District 3 to the east, Tân Phú to the west, District 10 and District 11 to the south, District 12 and Gò Vấp to the north.
District 12 (Vietnamese: Quận 12) is an urban district of Ho Chi Minh City, the largest and most populous city in Vietnam. As of 2010, the district had a population of 427,083. [1] The district covers an area of 53.0 km². [1] The district is divided into 11 small subsets which are called wards.
Map depicting the military regions of South Vietnam including II Corps. The II Corps (Vietnamese: Quân đoàn II) was a corps of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), the army of the nation state of South Vietnam that existed from 1955 to 1975.