Vĩnh Phúc is a province in the Red River Delta of northern Vietnam.
Vĩnh Phúc | |
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       Post Office Vĩnh Phúc • Zen Monastery Trúc Lâm Tây Thiên • Tam Đảo Mountain • Lake Đại Lải • Tam Đảo National Park • Buffalo fighting festival • Bình Sơn Pagoda | |
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| Nickname: Fortune | |
 Location of Vĩnh Phúc within Vietnam | |
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| Coordinates: 21°18′N 105°36′E / 21.300°N 105.600°E | |
| Country |  Vietnam |
| Region | Red River Delta |
| Capital | Vĩnh Yên |
| Government | |
| • People's Council Chair | Trịnh Đình Dũng |
| • People's Committee Chair | Nguyễn Ngọc Phi |
| Area | |
• Total | 1,236.00 km2 (477.22 sq mi) |
| Population (2023) | |
• Total | 1,511,300 |
| • Density | 1,200/km2 (3,200/sq mi) |
| Demographics | |
| • Ethnicities | Vietnamese, Sán Dìu, Sán Chay, Tày |
| GDP[2] | |
| • Total | VND 94.498 trillion US$ 4.104 billion |
| Time zone | UTC 7 (ICT) |
| Area codes | 211 |
| ISO 3166 code | VN-70 |
| HDI (2020) |  0.778[3](8th) |
| Website | www |
Administrative divisions
editVĩnh Phúc is subdivided into 8 district-level sub-divisions:
- 7 districts:
They are further subdivided into 12 commune-level towns (or townlets), 112 communes, and 13 wards.
Specialty
editTay Dinh banh gio: also known as sun cake, is a famous Vinh Phuc specialty for a long time. This is an indispensable dish in traditional Tet holidays and some other holidays of the people of Tay Dinh - Vinh Phuc like banh chung. With long-standing accumulated experience, accompanied by the creativity of Tay Dinh villagers, they have created a specialty with bold flavors and unique features of Tay Dinh banh gio. The cake has a beautiful golden brown color. When eating, we can feel the aroma of rice and the chewiness of the cake, combined with sugar or molasses to create a characteristic sweet and cool taste.[4]
Events
editClosure of Sơn Lôi Commune during the COVID-19 pandemic
editOn February 13, 2020, Vĩnh Phúc province has decided to lock down Sơn Lôi Commune - a rural community of over 10,600 in Bình Xuyên District - for fourteen days as an effort to contain the disease caused by the Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV 2) virus. Seven of the total of sixteen people contracted the virus in Vietnam are residents of Sơn Lôi Commune - including a three-month-old girl. Authorities have established mobile shops and provided food and face masks to the community.[5]
References
edit- ^ Biểu số 4.2: Hiện trạng sử dụng đất vùng Đồng Bằng Sông Hồng năm 2022 [Table 4.2: Current land use status in the Red River Delta in 2022] (PDF) (Decision 3048/QĐ-BTNMT) (in Vietnamese). Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (Vietnam). 18 October 2023. – the data in the report are in hectares, rounded to integers
- ^ "Tình hình kinh tế - xã hội năm 2018 Vĩnh Phúc". Cục Thống kê tỉnh Vĩnh Phúc. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
- ^ "Human Development Index by province(*) by Cities, provincies and Year". General Statistics Office of Vietnam. Retrieved September 28, 2024.
- ^ "Bánh Gio Tây Đình – Đặc sản nổi tiếng của Vĩnh Phúc - Trung tâm Xúc tiến Du lịch Vĩnh Phúc – Sở VHTTDL Vĩnh Phúc". dulichvinhphuc.gov.vn (in Vietnamese). 2023-10-17. Retrieved 2024-01-13.
- ^ Dinh, Tat. "Vietnam province isolates commune with seven coronavirus patients". VnExpress International.
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