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The three main avenues in the district, Lạc Long Quân, Âu Cơ, and An Dương Vương, were names of leaders of early Vietnamese civilization.The smaller streets in the district are named after renowned Vietnamese poets, artists and music composers, such as Xuân Diệu, Tô Ngọc Vân, Trịnh Công Sơn, Nguyễn Đình Thi and Đặng Thai Mai.
Centrally controlled cities (thành phố trực thuộc trung ương) or municipalities are cities with significant importance in terms of politics, economy and culture of Vietnam that are under direct control of the Vietnamese Central government. There are currently six centrally controlled municipalities.
On the first tier, Vietnam is divided into 57 provinces (Vietnamese: tỉnh) and 6 municipalities (Vietnamese: thành phố trực thuộc trung ương). Municipalities are the highest-ranked cities in Vietnam. [1] Municipalities are centrally-controlled cities and have special status equal to a province.
After the end of the Tây Sơn had expanded further south, the city was named Bắc Thành (北城, lit. ' northern citadel '). [15] [19] [22] Minh Mạng renamed the city Hà Nội (河內) in 1831. This has remained its official name until modern times. [15] [19] [22] Several unofficial names of Hanoi include: Kẻ Chợ (仉𢄂, lit.
Hoàng Mai is an urban district (quận) of Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam. [3] The district currently has 14 wards, covering a total area of 40.32 square kilometres (15.57 sq mi). [1]
The district has been witness to the long history of Hanoi. In the early Lý dynasty, in 545, the emperor Lý Nam Đế settled his encampment, and built a wooden raft on the Tô Lịch River to defend against invasion of the Liang dynasty.
Hai Bà Trưng district is divided into 18 wards [1] (Bách Khoa, Bạch Đằng, Bạch Mai, Cầu Dền, Đống Mác, Đồng Nhân, Đồng Tâm, Lê Đại Hành, Minh Khai, Nguyễn Du, Phạm Đình Hổ, Phố Huế, Quỳnh Lôi, Quỳnh Mai, Thanh Lương, Thanh Nhàn, Trương Định, Vĩnh Tuy).
The Old Quarter (Vietnamese: Phố cổ Hà Nội) is the name commonly given to the historical civic urban core of Hanoi, Vietnam, located outside the Imperial Citadel of Thăng Long. This quarter used to be the residential, manufacturing and commercial center, where each street was specialized in one specific type of manufacturing or commerce.