Thái Bình province

Coordinates: 20°30′N 106°20′E / 20.500°N 106.333°E / 20.500; 106.333
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Thái Bình province
Tỉnh Thái Bình
Province
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Area codes227
ISO 3166 codeVN-20
Websitewww.thaibinh.gov.vn

Thái Bình (Vietnamese: [tʰaːj˧˦ ʔɓïŋ˨˩] ⓘ) is a coastal eastern province in the Red River Delta region of northern Vietnam. Its name is chữ Hán (太平) for "great peace." It is about 18 km from Nam Định, 70 km from Haiphong, and 110 km from Hanoi. As of 2021, it had a population 2,196,442.

Administrative divisions

Thái Bình is subdivided into eight district-level sub-divisions:

  • 7 districts:
    • Đông Hưng
    • Hưng Hà
    • Kiến Xương
    • Quỳnh Phụ
    • Thái Thụy
    • Tiền Hải
    • Vũ Thư

They are further subdivided into nine commune-level towns (or townlets), 267 communes, and 10 wards.

People and culture

Map of Thai Binh province in 1909

Although situated in the centre of the

Đông Hưng District).[5][6][7]
Thái Bình people are noted for their practical and clever character.

Thái Bình is the homeland of the most prolific and famous Vietnamese savant in the Middle Ages:

Hưng Hà District. Bùi Viện, the founder of Haiphong city, was a famous reformer in the 19th century. He was the first Vietnamese known to have visited the United States and also served as ambassador to the United States under the Nguyễn dynasty
.

The first Vietnamese to travel into

Nhân Văn affair
– a movement for a movement for political and cultural freedom of Vietnamese intellectuals. This affair is one of the most tragic events in modern Vietnamese history.

Some Thái Bình people are among the richest in Vietnam, including

Hanoi University of Technology, authored the first successfully commercial domestic software: BKED
(Bach khoa Editor) – a system for processing Vietnamese text, in the 1980s.

Etymology

The province's name derives from Sino-Vietnamese 太平 meaning "great peace".

Geography

The province includes the Tien Hai Nature Reserve, which is part of the Red River Delta Biosphere Reserve. Much of this is being considered for development.[9]

See also

  • Đồng Xâm a silvercraft village in the northern province of Thái Bình's Kien Xuong District

References

  1. ^ "Tình hình kinh tế, xã hội Thái Bình năm 2018". Cục Thống kê tỉnh Thái Bình. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
  2. ^ "Culture-Religion". Thaibinhtrade.gov.vn. Retrieved 2010-06-15.[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ "Trang tin bài". Nhan Dan. 2007-09-29. Archived from the original on June 14, 2008. Retrieved 2010-06-15.
  4. ^ Thứ 4 ngày 16 tháng 06 năm 2010. "Chao mung cac ban den voi Website UBND Tinh Thai Binh". Thaibinh.gov.vn. Archived from the original on 2012-08-05. Retrieved 2010-06-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ Librios Semantic Environment (2006-08-02). "Việt Nam: Puppetry". Culturalprofiles.net. Retrieved 2010-06-15.
  6. ^ "Words on a wire: a water puppet troupe in northern Vietnam has survived nasty spells of cold weather, intense local competition and even war. So what's the secret of their success? Special agent Bich Ngoc slips on her waders and heads down to the local pond. (History & Culture)". Goliath.ecnext.com. 2002-11-25. Retrieved 2010-06-15.
  7. ^ "Trang tin bài". Nhan Dan. 2008-01-29. Archived from the original on June 14, 2008. Retrieved 2010-06-15.
  8. ^ [1] Archived January 13, 2005, at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^ Michael Tatarski (22 September 2023). "Tien Hai Nature Reserve latest battleground in Vietnam's push for development". Mongabay. Retrieved 2 October 2023.

External links

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