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Before the 19th century, the name Hạ Long Bay had not been recorded in the old books of the country. It has been called other names such as An Bang, Lục Thủy, and Vân Đồn. In the late 19th century, the name Hạ Long Bay appeared on the Maritime Map of France. The French-language Hai Phong News reported "Dragon appears on Hạ Long Bay".
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English: Ha Long Bay (Halong Bay) in North Vietnam. Ha Long in Vietnamese means “descent of the dragon”. Ha Long in Vietnamese means “descent of the dragon”. Many legends are built around the name.
Cát Bà Island is the largest of the 367 islands spanning 262.41 km 2 (101.32 sq mi) [1] [a] that comprise the Cat Ba Archipelago, which makes up the southeastern edge of Lan Ha Bay in Northern Vietnam and maintains the dramatic and rugged features of Ha Long Bay.
It is common practice in Cantonese communities to change and swap Chinese characters of similar pronunciations because of misinterpretation by different ruling governments over time or visitors from foreign villages and cities, illiteracy of local villages before the economic boom, seeking of good fortune and to replace 'bad sounding' words by using characters with a more positive meaning.
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The name "Sha Tau Kok" first appeared in 1863, in the genealogy of the Ng (Chinese: 吳) Clan of Sha Lan Ha/Sha Lan Xia (Chinese: 沙欄吓). According to the Ngs, Sha Tau Kok was originally the name of the bay. [8] it was also used as a general name for the Northwestern part of Mirs Bay in Volonteri's map of Sun On District in 1866. [11]
Being a coastal city, Hạ Long bears unique potentials of tourism and seaport due to its land lies along the shore of Hạ Long Bay by 50 km. Hạ Long is 160 km to the north-east from Hà Nội, 60 km to the East from Hải Phòng, 180 km to the south-west from Móng Cái international border gate, and bounded by the Gulf of Tonkin to the ...