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Hanoi [a] (Vietnamese: Hà Nội ⓘ) is the capital and second-most populous city of Vietnam. The name "Hanoi" translates to "inside the river", [15] – Hanoi is bordered by the Red and Black Rivers. As a municipality, Hanoi consists of 12 urban districts, 17 rural districts, and one district-level town.
After the liberation of the capital, from 1956, it was part of District VI. In 1961, when Hà Nội expanded its boundaries, the city abolished the urban districts and established four inner-city districts and four suburban districts, with Từ Liêm district being reinstated, incorporating the land of Districts V and VI. [7]
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. During the Nguyễn dynasty , Emperor Minh Mạng established the province of Hanoi in Hoàn Kiếm in 1831.
Among the structures related to the Imperial City is the Hanoi Flag Tower (Cột cờ Hà Nội). Rising to a height of 33.4 m (41 m with the flag, 60 m including the base), it is a culturally significant landmark and frequently used as a symbol of the city.
Hà Đông (lit. ' east of the river ') is an urban district (quận) of Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam. [3] The district has 17 wards, covering a total area of 49.64 square kilometres (19.17 sq mi). [1] As of 2019, [2] there were 397,854 people residing in the district, the third highest of all districts in Hanoi, after Hoàng Mai.
Front entrance. The Vietnam National Museum of History (Vietnamese: Viện Bảo tàng Lịch sử Việt Nam) is in the Hoan Kiem district of Hanoi, Vietnam.The museum building was an archaeological research institution of the French School of the Far East under French colonial rule (Louis Finot École Française d'Extrême-Orient EFEO) of 1910, was extensively refurbished in 1920.
Trấn Quốc Pagoda (Vietnamese: chùa Trấn Quốc, chữ Nôm: 𫴶鎭國; Sino-Vietnamese: Trấn Quốc tự, chữ Hán: 鎮國寺), the oldest Buddhist temple in Hanoi, is located on a small island near the southeastern shore of Hanoi's West Lake, Vietnam.