Haiphong

Haiphong
Hải Phòng
City of Haiphong
Thành phố Hải Phòng
From top, left to right: Downtown Haiphong, Haiphong seen from Haiphong Opera House, Lê Chân statue, Nguyen Binh Khiem overpass, Hai Phong Port, Đồ Sơn.
Nickname: 
Flamboyant City (Thành phố hoa phượng đỏ)
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Provincial location in Vietnam
Provincial location in Vietnam
Coordinates: 20°51′54.5″N 106°41′01.8″E / 20.865139°N 106.683833°E / 20.865139; 106.683833
Country Vietnam
RegionRed River Delta
SeatHồng Bàng
Subdivision7 urban districts, 8 rural districts
Government
 • TypeMunicipality
 • BodyHaiphong People's Council
 • Secretary of the PartyTrần Lưu Quang
 • Chairman of People's CouncilPhuong Giang Hồ
 • Chairman of People's CommitteeNguyễn Văn Tùng
Area
 • Municipality (Class-1)1,526.52 km2 (589.39 sq mi)
Population
 (2022)[2]
 • Municipality (Class-1)2,088,000
 • Density1,400/km2 (3,500/sq mi)
 • Urban
951,723
Ethnic groups
 • Vietnamese99.6%
 • Others0.4%
Time zoneUTC+07:00 (ICT)
Postal code
04000 - 05000
Area codes225
License plate15, 16
GRP (Nominal)2020[4][5]
- TotalUS$12 billion
- Per capitaUS$5.863
HDI (2020)0.782 (4th)[6]
ClimateCwa
International airportCat Bi International Airport
WebsiteHaiphong.gov.vn

Haiphong (Vietnamese: Hải Phòng) is the third-largest city in Vietnam and is the principal port city of the Red River Delta.[7] The municipality has an area of 1,526.52 km2 (589.39 sq mi)[1], consisting of 8 urban districts and 7 rural districts. Two of the rural districts cover islands in the South China Sea: Bạch Long Vĩ and Cát Hải. It has a population of 2,359,000 in 2021. The city's economy has strength in manufacturing, as evident by large industrial parks and numerous smaller traditional handicraft villages.

In the imperial era of Đại Việt, the Bạch Đằng River in Haiphong was a place of many legendary victories, led by now-legendary commanders Ngô Quyền and Trần Hưng Đạo. In the 16th century, Mạc dynasty has promoted the coastal settlement as a secondary capital, growing to become an important port town of Đàng Ngoài. After the French conquest of Vietnam, in 1888, the president of the French Third Republic, Sadi Carnot, promulgated a decree to establish Haiphong as one of the principal cities of the French Indochina. From 1954 to 1975, Haiphong served as the most important maritime city of North Vietnam. It was one of directly-controlled municipalities of a reunified Vietnam with Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City in 1976. In the 21st century, Haiphong is under active land reclamation, the most recent effort being the construction of South Đình Vũ dike in 2022.[8]

Haiphong is a popular seaside vacation spot and known for biological reservations in Cát Bà Island. For its extensive port, the city hosts the headquarter of Vietnam People's Navy. Phoenix flowers are commonly associated with Haiphong in Vietnamese culture.

  1. ^ a b "Phê duyệt và công bố kết quả thống kê diện tích đất đai năm 2022" [Approve and announce the results of land area statistics in 2022] (PDF). Table 4.2, Decision No. 3048/QĐ-BTNMT of 18 October 2023 (in Vietnamese). Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (Vietnam). – the data in the report are in hectares, rounded to integers
  2. ^ General Statistics Office of Vietnam (2023). Niên giám Thống kê Việt Nam năm 2022 [Statistical Yearbook of Vietnam 2022] (PDF). Statistical Publishing House (Vietnam). p. 105. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2024-04-03. Retrieved 2024-04-03.
  3. ^ General Statistics Office of Vietnam (2019). "Completed Results of the 2019 Viet Nam Population and Housing Census" (PDF). Statistical Publishing House (Vietnam). ISBN 978-604-75-1532-5.
  4. ^ "Kinh tế - xã hội thành phố Hải Phòng giai đoạn 2016-2020 tạo đà và bứt phá" (in Vietnamese). Con số và sự kiện. 2021-03-22.
  5. ^ "Thu nhập người Hải Phòng: 11.800 USD/năm vào 2025". Tuổi Trẻ. 15 October 2020.
  6. ^ General Statistics Office of Vietnam (2021). Báo cáo Chỉ số phát triển con người Việt Nam giai đoạn 2016 – 2020 [Vietnam's Human Development Index (2016-2020)] (PDF) (Report). pp. 29–30. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-10-08. Retrieved 2023-03-10.
  7. ^ "DEEP C - Living and Working in Vietnam". Archived from the original on 2020-06-25. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
  8. ^ "Hơn 2.200 tỉ đồng xây dựng đê biển Nam Đình Vũ, Hải Phòng". TUOI TRE ONLINE (in Vietnamese). 2022-11-17. Retrieved 2024-01-09.

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