Hà Tĩnh province
Hà Tĩnh Province
Tỉnh Hà Tĩnh | |
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Area codes | 239 |
ISO 3166 code | VN-23 |
Website | www |
Hà Tĩnh (Vietnamese:
Hà Tĩnh together with neighbouring
Geography
Hà Tĩnh is about 340 km (211 miles) south of Hanoi.
Climate
The climate is
Administrative divisions
Hà Tĩnh is subdivided into 13 district-level sub-divisions:
- 10 districts:
- Cẩm Xuyên
- Can Lộc
- Đức Thọ
- Hương Khê
- Hương Sơn
- Kỳ Anh
- Lộc Hà
- Nghi Xuân
- Thạch Hà
- Vũ Quang
- 2 district-level towns:
- 1 provincial city:
- Hà Tĩnh (capital)
They are further subdivided into 12 commune-level towns (or townlets), 235 communes, and 15 wards.
Tourism and notables
Hà Tĩnh has many locations of historical and cultural interest that are popular with tourists. It is home to national figures such as
Transport
Hà Tĩnh has 130 km (82 miles) of Highway 1A stretching from Bến Thủy Bridge (Vinh City) to Đèo Ngang Pass linking Hà Tĩnh and Quảng Bình. The Ho Chi Minh Route is the second most important route of the province. Hà Tĩnh also contains Road 8 which runs from Hồng Lĩnh town to Laos and the Viet-Lao highway from Vũng Áng Harbour (Kỳ Anh District) to Laos. In 2007, a railway link to Laos was proposed from Hà Tĩnh province.
Economy
Agriculture, forestry and fishery takes up 35.5 percent of total GDP and the province's GDP accounts for 0.7 percent of Vietnam's GDP. Hà Tĩnh has taken slow steps in economic reforms though better signs in recent times are incentive. Vũng Áng harbour with some plants, factories and a thermal power station is becoming the most active economic hub. Vietnam Steel operates an iron mine in Thạch Khê District,[6] with reserves of 544 million tonnes of iron, which is one of the largest mines in southeast Asia.[7]
A US$10 billion iron and steel plant was built in Vũng Áng in the 2010s (see
History
In
References
- ^ a b Statistical Handbook of Vietnam 2014 Archived July 6, 2015, at the Wayback Machine, General Statistics Office Of Vietnam
- ^ "Tình hình kinh tế, xã hội Hà Tĩnh năm 2018". Cục Thống kê tỉnh Hà Tĩnh. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
- ^ Thê ́Anh Nguyêñ, Alain Forest Guerre et paix en Asie du Sud-Est Page 110 1998 " ... the regional way of speaking in the southern part of Thanh Nghệ, the so-called Nghệ Tĩnh (Nghệ An and Hà Tĩnh) dialect, ..."
- ^ Jonathan D. London Education in Vietnam 2011 Page 186 "A teacher from Hà Tĩnh province acknowledged this issue, quipping that his distinctive and “heavy” Hà Tĩnh accent would be tough even for most Việt teachers, let alone students."
- ^ "To beat the heat, Vietnam rice farmers resort to planting at night". VNExpress International. Reuters. 26 June 2020. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
- ^ Geological Survey (U.S.), Minerals Yearbook: Area Reports: International 2008: Asia and the Pacific, pp. 22-12, 26-9.
- ^ "Vung Ang economic zone grows into national industrial centre -- Vietnam+ (VietnamPlus)". Archived from the original on 2013-07-23.
- ^ "Up to 21 dead, doctor says, as anti-China riots spread in Vietnam". Reuters. Archived from the original on 2023-06-08.
- ^ Steve Mullman (30 June 2016). "A Taiwanese Steel Plant Caused Vietnam's Mass Fish Deaths the Government Says". Quartz. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
- ^ Patricia M. Pelley Postcolonial Vietnam: New Histories of the National Past 2002 Page 196 "In September 1930, the first Vietnamese soviet (in the village of vi:Võ Liệt) was formed, and soon it encompassed the three provinces of Nghệ An, Hà Tĩnh, and Quảng Ngãi. By this point, a number of Vietnamese students were already attending ..."
- ^ Nguyen Công LuanNationalist in the Viet Nam Wars: Memoirs of a Victim Turned Soldier 2011 "... "Soviet" style that led farmers from several villages in Nghệ An and Hà Tĩnh provinces to stage mass protests for months after May 1930"
External links
- Hà Tĩnh province People's Committee Archived 2011-05-15 at the Wayback Machine
- Poverty alleviation in Hà Tĩnh Province, Vietnam: A public archive of development project documents