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The Vietnamese name Chợ Lớn literally means "big" (lớn) "market" (chợ). The Chinese (and original) name is 堤 岸 (In Cantonese, tai4 ngon6 , which is occasionally rendered in Vietnamese orthography as Thầy Ngòn or Thì Ngòn , [ 4 ] and in Mandarin, Dī'àn ), [ 1 ] [ 2 ] which means "embankment" (French: quais ).
This is a list of district-level subdivisions (Vietnamese: đơn vị hành chính cấp huyện) of Vietnam. This level includes: district-level cities (thành phố thuộc Thành phố trực thuộc trung ương, thành phố thuộc Tỉnh), towns , rural districts and urban districts .
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).
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE, Vietnamese: Bộ Tài nguyên và Môi trường) is a government ministry in Vietnam responsible for: land, water resources; mineral resources, geology; environment; hydrometeorology; climate change; surveying and mapping; management of the islands and the sea.
The Vietnamese Wikipedia initially went online in November 2002, with a front page and an article about the Internet Society.The project received little attention and did not begin to receive significant contributions until it was "restarted" in October 2003 [3] and the newer, Unicode-capable MediaWiki software was installed soon after.
Map showing the official extent of the Old Quarter. The official extent of the Hanoi Old Quarter has been fixed by a 1995 decision from the Vietnamese Ministry of Construction: [1] in the north it is limited by Hàng Đậu street, in the west by Phùng Hưng street, in the south by Hàng Bông street, Hàng Gai street, Cầu Gỗ street, and Hàng Thùng street, and in the east by Trần ...
Sino-Vietnamese: Peaceful and Prosperous: Named after the two former districts of Bình Hòa [note 4] and Thạnh Mỹ Tây, [note 5] which were merged into the new Bình Thạnh in June 1976. [7] [8] Gò Vấp: Vietnamese: Mound of Vấp: Named after "vấp" tree (Mesua ferrea), which used to be abundant in the area. [9] [10] Phú Nhuận ...
In 2004, the population was predominantly ethnic Vietnamese with 93.33%.The second-largest ethnic group was the Chinese with 6.38%.Other ethnic groups included Khmer with 0.11%, Tày with 0,05%, Nùng with 0,03%, Mường with 0,02%, Chăm with 0,02% and Thái with 0,01% of the population.