Thai Binh Province
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Thái Bình is a coastal eastern province
in the Red River Delta
region of northern Vietnam
, named after the Vietnamese
name for the Pacific Ocean
: Thái Bình Dương. It is about 18 km from Nam Dinh
, 70 km from Haiphong
, and 110 km from Hanoi
.
) and seven districts:
, in the past, Thai Binh was considered an island bounded by three larger rivers, and is the only province never to have been merged or separated. This position gives the people of Thai Binh a quite distinct culture. Thai Binh is the homeland of hát chèo
opera (in Khuốc village, Phong Châu commune, Đông Hưng
district ) and water puppet (in Nguyên Xá commune, Đông Hưng
district
). Thai Binh people are noted for their practical and clever character.
Thai Binh is the homeland of the most prolific and famous Vietnamese savant in the Middle Ages: Lê Quý Đôn. Tran Thu Do, the founder of the Trần Dynasty, was born in Hưng Hà
district.
Bùi Viện, the founder of Haiphong
city, was a famous reformer in the 19th century. He was the first Vietnamese known to have visited the United States and also served as ambassador to the United States
under the Nguyễn Dynasty.
The first Vietnamese to travel into outer space
was the cosmonaut Phạm Tuân, a native of Thai Binh. Two other natives of Thai Binh are the ones who finalized the two infamous wars in Vietnam: Tạ Quốc Luật, who captured Christian de Castries
and raised the victory flag in the Battle of Dien Bien Phu
(the First Indochina War
) and Bùi Quang Thận, who led a group of Northern tanks and entered the headquarters of South Vietnam's government to make president Dương Văn Minh
unconditionally surrender (the second Indochina War
). Thai Binh is also the homeland of several famous Vietnamese political dissidents and humanitarians. Thích Quảng Độ is a Vietnamese Buddhist leader and critic of the Vietnamese government. In 2006, he was awarded the Thorolf Rafto Memorial Prize
, and was also a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize
. Dương Thu Hương
, arguably the most famous postwar Vietnamese writer, whose novel Paradise of the Blind
(Những thiên đường mù, 1988) became the first Vietnamese novel ever published in the United States in English, is also a famous political dissident. Nguyễn Hữu Đang, born in Kiến Xương
district, was the leader and prominent victim of the Nhân Văn affair
- a movement for a movement for political and cultural freedom of Vietnamese intellectuals. This affair is one of the most tragic events in modern Vietnamese history.
Some Thai Binh people are among the richest in Vietnam, including Vu Quang Hoi who is the founder of Bitexco group (who owns The Financial Tower
in Ho Chi Minh City
, The Manor
luxury building in Hanoi
, etc.), Vu Van Tien, founder of Geleximco - the largest private company in Hanoi
and AB Bank, a large private bank. Quách Tuấn Ngọc, a native of Đông Hưng
, while a professor of computer science
in Hanoi University of Technology
, authored the first successfully commercial domestic software: BKED (Bach khoa Editor) - a system for processing Vietnamese text, in the 1980s.
Provinces of Vietnam
Vietnam is divided into 58 provinces and five centrally governed cities existing at the same level as provinces ....
in the Red River Delta
Red River Delta
The Red River Delta is the flat plain formed by the Red River and its distributaries joining in the Thai Binh River in northern Vietnam. The delta measuring some 15,000 square km is well protected by a network of dikes. It is an agriculturally rich area and densely populated...
region of northern Vietnam
Vietnam
Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...
, named after the Vietnamese
Vietnamese language
Vietnamese is the national and official language of Vietnam. It is the mother tongue of 86% of Vietnam's population, and of about three million overseas Vietnamese. It is also spoken as a second language by many ethnic minorities of Vietnam...
name for the Pacific Ocean
Pacific Ocean
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: Thái Bình Dương. It is about 18 km from Nam Dinh
Nam Dinh
Nam Định is a big city in the Red River Delta of northern Vietnam. It is the capital of Nam Dinh Province and capital of the South of Red River Delta. Nam Dinh province was, at one time, part of Ha Nam Ninh province until it was split up again in 1996 to return to being two separate provinces,...
, 70 km from Haiphong
Haiphong
, also Haiphong, is the third most populous city in Vietnam. The name means, "coastal defence".-History:Hai Phong was originally founded by Lê Chân, the female general of a Vietnamese revolution against the Chinese led by the Trưng Sisters in the year 43 C.E.The area which is now known as Duong...
, and 110 km from Hanoi
Hanoi
Hanoi , is the capital of Vietnam and the country's second largest city. Its population in 2009 was estimated at 2.6 million for urban districts, 6.5 million for the metropolitan jurisdiction. From 1010 until 1802, it was the most important political centre of Vietnam...
.
Districts
Thai Binh is divided into one city (Thái Bình cityThai Binh City
Thái Bình is a city in the Red River Delta of northern Vietnam. It is the capital of Thai Binh province. It is located 110 km from Hanoi. The city area is 67.7 square km, with a population of 210,000 people . Before the prime minister declared it a city in June of 2004, it was officially a town....
) and seven districts:
- Ðông HưngDong HungDong Hung is a district of Thai Binh Province in the Red River Delta region of Vietnam.Ðong Hung is the homeland of hát chèo, a traditional Vietnamese music genre and water puppet. The district is also well known for Cay cake....
- Hưng Hà
- Kiến XươngKien XuongKiến Xương is a rural district of Thai Binh province in the Red River Delta region of Vietnam. As of 2003 the district had a population of 240,253. The district covers an area of 213 km²...
- Quỳnh Phụ
- Thái ThụyThai ThuyThái Thụy is a rural district of Thai Binh Province in the Red River Delta region of Vietnam. As of 2003 the district had a population of 267,012. The district covers an area of 257 km². The district capital lies at Diem Dien.-References:...
- Tiền Hải
- Vũ Thư
People and culture
Although situated in the centre of the Red River DeltaRed River Delta
The Red River Delta is the flat plain formed by the Red River and its distributaries joining in the Thai Binh River in northern Vietnam. The delta measuring some 15,000 square km is well protected by a network of dikes. It is an agriculturally rich area and densely populated...
, in the past, Thai Binh was considered an island bounded by three larger rivers, and is the only province never to have been merged or separated. This position gives the people of Thai Binh a quite distinct culture. Thai Binh is the homeland of hát chèo
Hat cheo
Chèo is a form of generally satirical musical theatre, often encompassing dance, traditionally performed by Vietnamese peasants in northern Vietnam...
opera (in Khuốc village, Phong Châu commune, Đông Hưng
Dong Hung
Dong Hung is a district of Thai Binh Province in the Red River Delta region of Vietnam.Ðong Hung is the homeland of hát chèo, a traditional Vietnamese music genre and water puppet. The district is also well known for Cay cake....
district ) and water puppet (in Nguyên Xá commune, Đông Hưng
Dong Hung
Dong Hung is a district of Thai Binh Province in the Red River Delta region of Vietnam.Ðong Hung is the homeland of hát chèo, a traditional Vietnamese music genre and water puppet. The district is also well known for Cay cake....
district
). Thai Binh people are noted for their practical and clever character.
Thai Binh is the homeland of the most prolific and famous Vietnamese savant in the Middle Ages: Lê Quý Đôn. Tran Thu Do, the founder of the Trần Dynasty, was born in Hưng Hà
Hung Ha
Hưng Hà is a rural district of Thai Binh province in the Red River Delta region of Vietnam. As of 2003 the district had a population of 252,912. The district covers an area of 200 km². The district capital lies at Hung Ha.-References:...
district.
Bùi Viện, the founder of Haiphong
Haiphong
, also Haiphong, is the third most populous city in Vietnam. The name means, "coastal defence".-History:Hai Phong was originally founded by Lê Chân, the female general of a Vietnamese revolution against the Chinese led by the Trưng Sisters in the year 43 C.E.The area which is now known as Duong...
city, was a famous reformer in the 19th century. He was the first Vietnamese known to have visited the United States and also served as ambassador to the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
under the Nguyễn Dynasty.
The first Vietnamese to travel into outer space
Outer space
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was the cosmonaut Phạm Tuân, a native of Thai Binh. Two other natives of Thai Binh are the ones who finalized the two infamous wars in Vietnam: Tạ Quốc Luật, who captured Christian de Castries
Christian de Castries
Christian Marie Ferdinand de la Croix de Castries was the French commander at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954. Castries was born into a distinguished military family and enlisted in the army at the age of 19. He was sent to the Saumur Cavalry School and in 1926 was commissioned an officer but...
and raised the victory flag in the Battle of Dien Bien Phu
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was the climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist revolutionaries. The battle occurred between March and May 1954 and culminated in a comprehensive French defeat that...
(the First Indochina War
First Indochina War
The First Indochina War was fought in French Indochina from December 19, 1946, until August 1, 1954, between the French Union's French Far East...
) and Bùi Quang Thận, who led a group of Northern tanks and entered the headquarters of South Vietnam's government to make president Dương Văn Minh
Duong Van Minh
Minh was born on 16 February 1916 in Mỹ Tho Province in the Mekong Delta, the son of a wealthy landowner who served in a prominent position in the Finance Ministry of the French colonial administration...
unconditionally surrender (the second Indochina War
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of...
). Thai Binh is also the homeland of several famous Vietnamese political dissidents and humanitarians. Thích Quảng Độ is a Vietnamese Buddhist leader and critic of the Vietnamese government. In 2006, he was awarded the Thorolf Rafto Memorial Prize
Thorolf Rafto Memorial Prize
The Professor Thorolf Rafto Memorial Prize is a human rights award established in the memory of the Norwegian human right activist, Thorolf Rafto.-Organization:...
, and was also a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize
Nobel Peace Prize
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. Dương Thu Hương
Duong Thu Huong
Dương Thu Hương is a Vietnamese author and political dissident. Formerly a member of Vietnam's Communist party, she was expelled from the party in 1989, and has been denied the right to travel abroad, and was temporarily imprisoned for her writings and outspoken criticism of corruption in the...
, arguably the most famous postwar Vietnamese writer, whose novel Paradise of the Blind
Paradise of the Blind
Paradise of the Blind is a novel by Duong Thu Huong, published in 1988. It was the first Vietnamese novel published in English in the United States . It is now banned in Vietnam because of the political view and potential bias of the novel....
(Những thiên đường mù, 1988) became the first Vietnamese novel ever published in the United States in English, is also a famous political dissident. Nguyễn Hữu Đang, born in Kiến Xương
Kien Xuong
Kiến Xương is a rural district of Thai Binh province in the Red River Delta region of Vietnam. As of 2003 the district had a population of 240,253. The district covers an area of 213 km²...
district, was the leader and prominent victim of the Nhân Văn affair
Nhân Van affair
The Nhân Văn affair was a political controversy in North Vietnam in the late 1950s. Following a loosening of political restrictions with some similarities to the Chinese Hundred Flowers Campaign, there was a hardening of attitudes...
- a movement for a movement for political and cultural freedom of Vietnamese intellectuals. This affair is one of the most tragic events in modern Vietnamese history.
Some Thai Binh people are among the richest in Vietnam, including Vu Quang Hoi who is the founder of Bitexco group (who owns The Financial Tower
The Financial Tower (Ho Chi Minh City)
Bitexco Financial Tower is a skyscraper in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, owned by Bitexco Group, a Vietnamese company. With 68 floors above ground and three basements, the building has a height of , making it the 124th tallest building in the world. It was designed by Carlos Zapata Studio, and is...
in Ho Chi Minh City
Ho Chi Minh City
Ho Chi Minh City , formerly named Saigon is the largest city in Vietnam...
, The Manor
The Manor
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luxury building in Hanoi
Hanoi
Hanoi , is the capital of Vietnam and the country's second largest city. Its population in 2009 was estimated at 2.6 million for urban districts, 6.5 million for the metropolitan jurisdiction. From 1010 until 1802, it was the most important political centre of Vietnam...
, etc.), Vu Van Tien, founder of Geleximco - the largest private company in Hanoi
Hanoi
Hanoi , is the capital of Vietnam and the country's second largest city. Its population in 2009 was estimated at 2.6 million for urban districts, 6.5 million for the metropolitan jurisdiction. From 1010 until 1802, it was the most important political centre of Vietnam...
and AB Bank, a large private bank. Quách Tuấn Ngọc, a native of Đông Hưng
Dong Hung
Dong Hung is a district of Thai Binh Province in the Red River Delta region of Vietnam.Ðong Hung is the homeland of hát chèo, a traditional Vietnamese music genre and water puppet. The district is also well known for Cay cake....
, while a professor of computer science
Computer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
in Hanoi University of Technology
Hanoi University of Technology
Hanoi University of Science and Technology , founded 1956, is the first and largest technical university in Vietnam.- History :...
, authored the first successfully commercial domestic software: BKED (Bach khoa Editor) - a system for processing Vietnamese text, in the 1980s.