Hà Giang (city)
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 Vietnam
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| Province : | Ha Giang | ||
| ISO 3166-2: VN : | VN-03 | ||
| Coordinates : | 22 ° 50 ′ N , 104 ° 59 ′ E | ||
| Height : | 700 m | ||
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| City residents : | 30,000 () | ||
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| Vehicle registration number : | 23 | ||
| Time zone : | UTC +7: 00 | ||
Hà Giang is a city in Vietnam and the capital of the province of the same name . As the northernmost city in the country, it is located on the Sông Lô at around 700 m above sea level and has around 30,000 inhabitants. Tourists like to use it as a starting point for trips to the Sunday minority markets, especially those of Đồng Văn and Mèo Vạc .
After the severe destruction in the Sino-Vietnamese war , the Chinese penal campaign after the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia in 1979, the post-socialist architecture of the 1990s prevails in the city.
The Hà Giang culture
Along with May Pha or Ha Long, Hà Giang belonged to the late Neolithic cultures in northern Vietnam. The Hà Giang culture was named after the city of the same name and was distributed along the Song Lo , Chay and Gam rivers . The culture dates between 3000 and 2000 BC. Chr. During this time, a veritable emerged craft industry . Axes and shovels as well as bracelets are known as legacies. They often had D- or T-shaped cross-sections. Furthermore, the Hà Giang culture emphasized cutting tools, which consisted of bark cloth and were provided with square incisions.
Ceramics, on the other hand, were very rare in this culture. As far as they existed, they consisted of thick and coarse forms, mixed with quartz and mica components . Nevertheless, the vessels showed a variety of shapes. They were produced with different base and ring feet. The outside of the vessels was also decorated in a variety of ways, including lacing elements, comb-like incisions, punctiform patterns, leaf-veined cutting patterns and the like.
Individual evidence
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- Bühler / Kothmann, Vietnam, Reise Know How, ISBN 978-3-8317-1720-0