Thái Bình (Province)

Tỉnh Thái Bình
Provincial capital:	Thái Bình
Region:	Đồng Bằng Sông Hồng
Surface:	1,546.5 km²
Residents:	1,790,000 (2016) {{{proof}}}
Population density :	1,157 inhabitants / km²
Chairman d. People's Council:	Bùi Tiến Dũng
Chairman d. People's Committees:	Nguyễn Hnh Phúc
Post Code:	33
Telephone code:	+84 (0) 36
License plate :	17th
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Tỉnh Thái Bình is one of the smaller provinces of Vietnam . It is located in the Red River Delta . The capital is Thái Bình , approx. 110 km southeast of Hanoi and 70 km southwest of Hải Phòng . The average temperature is 23.5 ° C. It is bordered by the five provinces Hải Dương , Hưng Yên , Hải Phong , Hà Nam and Nam Định . The province borders the Gulf of Tonkin to the east .

The province is traversed by four larger rivers: northeast of the 35 km long Sông Hóa, northwest of the Sông Luộc, 53 km long, south of a 67 km long lower reaches of the Red River (Sông Hồng) and the Sông Trà Lý, a 65 km long Sidewalk of the Sông Hồng.

Demographics

Different ethnic groups live in the province, the majority of which are Việt / Kinh . Smaller groups of the Hoa , Mường and Tày also live there .

Administrative structure

The ISO 3166-2 code for Ninh Bình is VN-20 . The province is divided into eight districts, including the provincial town of Thái Bình and the following seven districts ( huyện ):

• Ðông Hưng
• H Hng Hà
• Kiến Xương
• Quỳnh Phụ
• Thái Thụy
• Tiền Hải
• Vũ Thư

Daughters and Sons of the Province

• Thích Quảng Độ (1928–2020), Buddhist monk and human rights activist
• Phạm Tuân (born February 14, 1947 in Quốc Tuấn) engineer and cosmonaut, the first and so far only Vietnamese who was in space.
• Joseph Vu Duy Thông (1952–2017), Roman Catholic clergyman, Bishop of Phan Thiết

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  Cathedral of An Lập

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  Cathedral of the Diocese of Thái Bình

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  Chùa (pagoda) Keo

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  Chua Keo

Web links

Commons : Thái Bình (Province)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Administration website in Vietnamese

Individual evidence

1. ↑ [1]
2. ↑ Article in vnexpress.net

Coordinates: 20 ° 30 '  N , 106 ° 20'  E