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Rail travel from Haiphong with connections to the rest of the Vietnamese railway network is via Hanoi. Passenger trains run daily from 6AM until 6PM from Haiphong city to the capital Hanoi and back. The travel time between the two cities by rail is approximately three hours.
The provinces of Vietnam are subdivided into second-level administrative units, namely districts (Vietnamese: huyện), provincial cities (thành phố trực thuộc tỉnh), and district-level towns (thị xã).
The executive branch of a province is the People's Committee (Uỷ ban Nhân dân or UBND for short). The People's Committee is responsible for implementing policy and executing laws and orders. The People's Committee is equivalent to the executive Government of Vietnam.
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.
Ngô Quyền is an urban district (quận) of Hai Phong, the third largest city of Vietnam.It is named after King Ngô Quyền who defeated the Chinese at the famous Battle of Bạch Đằng River north of modern Haiphong and ended 1,000 years of Chinese domination dating back to 111 BC under the Han dynasty.
Ba Đình is one of the four original urban districts (quận) of Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam. [4] The district currently has 14 wards, covering a total area of 9.21 square kilometres (3.56 sq mi). [1]
Long Biên district is located at 21° 1′ 58.08″ N, 105° 54′ 47.88″ E, in Hanoi. It is surrounded by Tây Hồ district, Gia Lâm district, Ba Đình district, Hoàn Kiếm district, Hai Bà Trưng district, Hoàng Mai district, Đông Anh district.
At 650 hectares, Noi Bai is the second-largest airport in Vietnam, behind the 800 hectare Tan Son Nhat International Airport. Terminal 1, completed in 2001, used to be the sole terminal handling both domestic and international flights. However, with the opening of the second terminal, it is now reassigned to handle domestic flights only.