Friday 31 December 2010

Hanoi city

Natural conditions

Geographical location: Hanoi is located in the Red River Delta, adjacent to the provinces of Thai Nguyen, Vinh Phuc in the north, south, Ha Nam and Hoa Binh provinces east of Bac Giang, Bac Ninh and Hung Yen west of Hoa Binh and Phu Tho provinces.

Hanoi is located on the right bank of Da river and both sides of Red River, the location and favorable terrain for a political, economic, cultural, scientific and important traffic hub of Vietnam.

Climate:

From November to March is winter after years of dry weather. Winter temperatures average 15.2 ยบ C. Between the two seasons it has two transition period (April and October) to Hanoi should have four seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter. Four seasons change makes weather season Hanoi has its own beauty. Sightseeing season best is autumn in Hanoi. Part of the Ha Tay terrain (old) merged with Hanoi, has specific characteristics should form the sub-climatic regions: mountainous, hilly and plain. But in general the weather differences and disparities between the local temperature of Hanoi now are not large.

Topography:

Hanoi has two types of terrain is hilly and plain. Mainly plain terrain belongs to the old Hanoi and some eastern districts of Ha Tay (old), about 3 / 4 natural area, located on the right bank of Da river, Red River and two tributaries of River. Most of hilly terrain in the territory of the district of Soc Son, Ba Vi, Quoc Oai, German American. Some peaks, such as Ba Vi 1.281m; Racks for 707m, 462m Chim Chan, Thanh Lanh 427m; Thien Tru 378m, 334m Ba statue, Soc Son 308m, 245m Mount Boc; Education Spirit 294m ...

Rivers:

Hanoi is located next to the two major rivers in the north: the Da River and Red River. 1.183km long Red River from Yunnan (China) down. Then through Hanoi Red River 163km long (about 1 / 3 length on the ground in Vietnam, about 550km. Besides the two major rivers, the area of Hanoi there are rivers: Duong, Cau, Ca Lo, Day, Nhue , Tich, To Lich, Taurus, Bui.

Lake marshes in the area of Hanoi there. The famous lake in Hanoi such as West Lake, Truc Bach, Hoan Kiem, Thien Quang, Bay Mau. Dozens of lake marsh belongs to the old Hanoi: Ho Kim Lien, Lien Dam Lake, Van Tri swamp ... and several large lakes in the territory of Ha Tay (old): Ngai Son - Dong Mo, Suoi Hai, Cat Gu, Xuan Khanh, Tuy Lai, Quan Son ...

Population:

Tet flower market

04.01.1999 According to the data resident in Hanoi and Ha Tay (old) mainly ethnic Vietnamese (Kinh) account for 99.1%, other ethnic groups: Dao, Muong, Tay accounting for 0.9 %. In 2006 also in Hanoi and Ha Tay (old) of urban residents accounted for 41.1% and the proportion of rural residents was 58.1%, accounting for 50.7% rate of women and men is 49.3 %. The average population density across the city today is persons/km2 1875, residents of the agricultural production of about 2.5 million people.

Transportation:

From Hanoi, can travel across the country by other means of transport are convenient.

-Air: Noi Bai International Airport (located in the territory of Soc Son district, Hanoi center approximately 35 km). Gia Lam Airport, which is the main airport in Hanoi from 70 years before the 20th century. Now is the heliport for air services, including travel services.

-Roads: Automobiles inter-provincial bus station from the South, Gia Lam, Luong Yen, groundwater, My Dinh radiate throughout all parts of the country by the National Highway 1A through North - South; highway 2 to Vinh Phuc, Phu Tho, Tuyen Quang, Ha Giang, Thai Nguyen travel Highway 3, Cao Bang, National Highway 5 to Hai Phong, Quang Ninh Highway 6 to Hoa Binh, Son La, Lai Chau ...

-Railway: Hanoi is the traffic hub of five railroads in the country. There are railway to Beijing (China), to many European countries.

- Waterway: Hanoi is an important transport hub for ferry travel Hung Yen, Nam Dinh, Thai Binh, Vietnam Tri; Ben Ham Tu Quan went Pha.
Culture - Tourism

Hanoi now has over 4,000 relics and landscapes, which ranked 900 countries around the relics and scenic spots (hundreds of relics and scenic spots will be merged from Ha Tay and Me Linh) with hundreds of temples, temples, architecture, famous landscapes.

Hanoi is a big tourism center in Vietnam. Guests have the opportunity to explore many cultural structures - the art of construction over many generations, throughout the process of national construction and defense. The natural scenic beauty and charm; the craft villages existed for hundreds of years, these traditional festivals - cultural product crystallized many spiritual values ... will be the attractive tourism product.

Not Hanoi in late 20th century there were so many conditions that have long, from the days of King Ly Thai To moved his capital from Hoa Lu (Ninh Binh) to Dai La to Thang Long capital established in July Canh Tuat (1010), in "Screening moved his capital," the enlightened king Ly dynasty (1010-1225) at the same time enlighten Thang Long - Hanoi has shown.

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