Nha Trang ( or ; ) is a coastal city and capital of Khánh Hòa Province, on the South Central Coast of Vietnam. It is bounded on the north by Ninh Hoà town, on the south by Cam Ranh city and on the west by Diên Khánh District. The city has about 392,000 inhabitants, a number that is projected to increase to 560,000 by 2015 and 630,000 inhabitants by 2025. An area of of the western

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of Diên An and Diên Toàn is planned to be merged into Nha Trang which will make its new area based on the approval of the

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in September 2012. Nha Trang is well known for its beaches and

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and has developed into a popular destination for international tourists, attracting large numbers of backpackers, as well as more affluent travelers on the south-east Asia circuit; it is already very popular with Vietnamese tourists, with Nha Trang Bay widely considered as among the world's most beautiful bays. Tourists are welcomed to participate in the Sea Festival, held biennially. Historically, the city was known as Kauthara under rule of the

Kingdom of Champa Champa ( Cham: ꨌꩌꨛꨩ; km, ចាម្ប៉ា; vi, Chiêm Thành or ) were a collection of independent Cham polities that extended across the coast of what is contemporary central and southern Vietnam from approximately the 2nd ...

. The city is still home to the famous Po Nagar Tower built by the Champa. Being a coastal city, Nha Trang is a centre for marine science based at the

Nha Trang Oceanography Institute The Nha Trang Oceanography Institute or Institute of Oceanography in Nha Trang is an oceanography institute located at 1 Cau Da St., next to Cau Da Wharf, about 6 km from the center of Nha Trang, Khánh Hòa Province, Vietnam Vietnam ...

. The Hon Mun marine protected area is one of four first

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s in the world admitted by the

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Etymology

According to some researchers, the name ''Nha Trang'' derives from a Vietnamese spelling of the

Cham language Cham (Cham: ꨌꩌ) is a Malayo-Polynesian languages, Malayo-Polynesian language of the Austronesian languages, Austronesian family, spoken by the Cham people, Chams of Southeast Asia. It is spoken primarily in the territory of the former Kingdo ...

name of the site ''Ea Dran'' (literally "Reed River"), the name of the Cai River as referred to by the

Cham people The Cham (Cham: ''Čaṃ'') or Champa people (Cham: , ''Urang Campa''; vi, Người Chăm or ; km, ជនជាតិចាម, ) are an Austronesian ethnic group. From the 2nd century to 1832 the Cham populated Champa, a contiguous territor ...

. From the name of this river, the name was adopted to call what is now Nha Trang, which was officially made Vietnam's territory in 1698. Ea Dran is a common Cham and Montagnard place name, same as

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. As far as the recorded naming of ''Nha Trang'' is concerned, in ''Toàn tập Thiên Nam Tứ Chí Lộ Đồ Thư'', a geographical book written by a Vietnamese scholar with the family of Đỗ Bá in the second half of the 18th century, the name ''Nha Trang Môn'' ("Nha Trang gate") was mentioned.Hồng Đức bản đồ, bản dịch của Bửu Cầm và cộng sự, Viện Khảo cổ Sài Gòn xuất bản 1962. In another map dating to the 17th century, known as ''Giáp Ngọ Niên Bình Nam Đồ'' by a noble called Đoan Quận công Bùi Thế Đạt, the name ''Nha Trang Hải môn'' (Nha Trang Sea Gate) was also cited. In Vietnamese recorded historic bibliographies, these books are perhaps the earliest ones that mentioned this place name. In a work by

Lê Quý Đôn Lê Quý Đôn (; 1726–1784) was an 18th-century Vietnamese poet, encyclopedist, and government official. His pseudonym was Quế - Đường. He was a native of Duyen Ha village in present-day Thái Bình Province. He is considered one of the ...

called ''Phủ biên tạp lục'' (1776), many Nha Trang-related names were mentioned, such as ''đầm Nha Trang, dinh Nha Trang, nguồn Nha Trang, and đèo Nha Trang''.

History

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s) and was a part of Hà Bạc, Vĩnh Xương County, Diên Khánh Province. After just two decades in the early 20th century, Nha Trang underwent a rapid change. On August 30, 1924, the

Governor-General of French Indochina European (as well as Japanese and Chinese) colonial administrators had historically been responsible for the territory of French Indochina, an area equivalent to modern-day Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and the Chinese city of Zhanjiang. List of ...

decreed Nha Trang as a townlet (urban centre). Nha Trang Townlet was established from the ancient villages of Xương Huân, Phương Câu, Vạn Thạnh, Phương Sài, and Phước Hải. During

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, Nha Trang was seen as

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capital of Khánh Hòa Province. The colonial administration offices (like Envoy Office, Commanding Office, Trade Office, Post Office) were situated in Nha Trang. Local royal offices like Province Chief, Provincial Judge, Military Commander are in

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city (a walled military city 10 km south-west of Nha Trang). On 7 May 1937, the

by another decree upgraded Nha Trang Townlet to town. At this time, Nha Trang Town had five wards based on the ancient villages merged to make the town: Xương Huân, Phương Câu, Vạn Thạnh, Phương Sài, and Phước Hải. On 27 January 1958, the president of the

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by Decree 18-BNV abrogated the town status of Nha Trang and divided Nha Trang into two rural communes: Nha Trang Đông (Eastern Nha Trang) and Nha Trang Tây (Western Nha Trang), under the administration of Vĩnh Xương County. During the late 1960s, the U.S. Army's First Field Force, Vietnam (1FFV) was headquartered in Nha Trang. 1FFV was a corps-level major subordinate command of the U.S. Army Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV). On 22 October 1970, the government of the Republic of Vietnam by Decree 132-SL/NV reestablished Nha Trang Town on the ground of Nha Trang Đông and Nha Trang Tây and other rural communes. Following that establishment, the government by Decree 357-ĐUHC/NC/NĐ dated 5 June 1971 divided Nha Trang into 11 urban zones. On 2 April 1975, communist (

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/ PRG/ VPA) forces captured the city. On 4 April 1975, Khánh Hòa Military Commission (''Ủy ban Quân quản Khánh Hòa'') divided Nha Trang into three administrative districts: District 1, District 2 and Vĩnh Xương District. In September 1975, the districts were merged to become one entity, the town of Nha Trang. On 30 March 1977, the Council of the Government (now the cabinet) of the

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by Decision 391-CP/QĐ upgraded Nha Trang to city status, a county-level city under the administration of Phú Khánh Province (a province created by merger of now Phú Yên Province and Khánh Hòa Province). Seven communes of former Vĩnh Xương County, namely Vĩnh Thái, Vĩnh Ngọc, Vĩnh Hiệp, Vĩnh Lương, Vĩnh Trung, Vĩnh Thạnh, Vĩnh Phương was split from Khánh Xương County to become Nha Trang City territory. On 27 March 1978, the provincial government by Decision 54-BT founded Phước Đồng Commune under Nha Trang City. On 1 July 1989, Khanh Hoa was split from Phu Khanh Province to become Khánh Hòa Province as it was before, Nha Trang was made the capital of Khánh Hòa Province. On April 22, 1999,

Phan Văn Khải Phan Văn Khải (; 25 December 1933 – 17 March 2018) was a Vietnamese politician who served as the fifth Prime Minister of Vietnam from 25 September 1997 to 27 June 2006. Life and career Phan Văn Khải was born on 25 December 1933 in Tan ...

by Decision 106/1999 recognized Nha Trang City as a second-class municipal city. On April 22, 2009, former Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng recognized Nha Trang City as a first-class municipal city.

Geography

Nha Trang city has a metropolitan area of and population of about 500,000. It borders

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town in the north, Cam Ranh city in the south,

town in the west and the East Sea to the east. The city is on the beautiful Nha Trang Bay, which was chosen by ''

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'' in two succeeding years as one of 29 most beautiful bays in the world. Nha Trang is surrounded on all three sides by mountains and a large island and four smaller ones on the fourth side (in the ocean directly in front of the city's main area), blocking major storms from potentially damaging the city.

Climate

Nha Trang has a

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(

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: ''As'') with a lengthy dry season from January to August and a shorter wet season from September to December, when of the city's total annual rainfall of about is received from the north-east monsoon. During the wet season extremely heavy rainfall from

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s is not uncommon, though the city is shielded from the worst winds.

Administrative divisions

Khanh Hoa Center of Political and Cultural Events

Nha Trang is subdivided into 27 wards and communes, of which 19 are urban wards: Vĩnh Hải, Vĩnh Phước, Vĩnh Thọ, Xương Huân, Vạn Thắng, Vạn Thạnh, Phương Sài, Phương Sơn, Ngọc Hiệp, Phước Hòa, Phước Tân, Phước Tiến, Phước Hải, Lộc Thọ, Tân Lập, Vĩnh Nguyên, Vĩnh Trường, Phước Long (founded in November 1998), Vĩnh Hòa (founded in April 2002); and 8 suburban communes: Vĩnh Phương, Vĩnh Trung, Vĩnh Thạnh, Vĩnh Thái, Vĩnh Hiệp, Vĩnh Ngọc, Vĩnh Lương, and Phước Đồng. Since 1998, due to the high pace of urbanization, many urban planned zones have been built: Hòn Rớ, Bắc Việt, Thánh Gia, Đường Đệ, and Nam Hòn Khô.

Education

Nha Trang is home to the

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Nha Trang University Nha Trang University is a university in Nha Trang, Khánh Hòa Province, in Vietnam's South Central Coast South Central Coast ( vi, Duyên hải Nam Trung Bộ, links=no) or (South Central Region) is one of the regions of Vietnam. It consi ...

(formerly Nha Trang Fishery University); the Naval and Aviation Academy; a teachers' training college; Khanh Hoa University, as well as the

a unique institute of oceanography in Vietnam and the Pasteur Institute of Nha Trang, one of the many famous

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Nha Trang Pasteur Institute

The French-Swiss bacteriologist

Alexandre Yersin Alexandre Emile Jean Yersin (22 September 1863 – 1 March 1943) was a Swiss-French physician and bacteriologist. He is remembered as the co-discoverer of the bacillus responsible for the bubonic plague or pest, which was later named in his ...

, discoverer of the ''

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'' bacterium lived in Nha Trang for 50 years and was affectionately known as ''Ông Năm''. He established the Indochinese Pasteur Institute (now known as the Pasteur Institute of Nha Trang), devoted to researching the

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. Yersin died in Nha Trang on 1 March 1943. A street in the city is named after him, and a shrine has been built over his tomb. There is a Yersin Museum dedicated to his achievements.

Economy

Nha Trang's economy relies largely on tourism. In the suburban areas around the city, the shipbuilding industry has developed and contributed significantly to the local economy. Fishery and services are also important to the city. Khanh Hoa Province in general and Nha Trang is particular are among the largest contributors to Vietnam's annual budget revenues. Lobster farming on the sea is an important industry for the people living in suburban areas. To the south of the city, by Cam Ranh Bay, several industrial parks are under construction and have been partly available for investors. Once the construction of the deep-water port on Vân Phong Bay has been completed, this area will become the third important economic zone in the province (besides Nha Trang and Cam Ranh). Nha Trang, Khánh Hòa

Tourism

Nha Trang is one of the most important tourist hubs of Vietnam, thanks to its beaches with fine and clean sand and the clear ocean water with mild temperatures all year round. There are several resorts — such as Vinpearl, Diamond Bay and Ana Mandara — and amusement and water parks, in the city and on islands off the coast. The possibly most beautiful street of Nha Trang is Tran Phu Street along the seaside, sometimes referred to as the Pacific Coast Highway of Vietnam. Lying off Nha Trang is the Hon Tre Island (Bamboo Island), with a major resort operated by the Vinpearl Group. The

Vinpearl Cable Car Vinpearl Cable Car is a 3,320-metre-long gondola lift, which links Hon Tre Island with Nha Trang in Vietnam. It has been called the longest cable car over the sea. It was built by POMA Poma, incorporated as Pomagalski S.A., and sometimes ...

, a

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system, links the mainland to the five-star resort and theme park on Hon Tre Island. Nha Trang is a stopover for annual yacht races starting in Hong Kong. In recent years, the city has welcomed many five-star sea cruises. In addition to sailboat racing, Nha Trang provides a rich variety of tourist activities for visitors. Island hopping, scuba diving, water sports and other sporting activities can be enjoyed. The Nha Trang Tourist Information Center (a non-governmental organisation), located near the Cho Dam Market has been set up to provide information for visitors.NhaTrang live info center The local cuisine is most famous for fresh seafood and barbecued pork rolled in rice paper. The area's

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is deemed one of the best in Vietnam. Bird's nests are collected in the wild, on bird farms on the islands off the coast and even in some houses in the inner city. The farmed bird in question belongs to the

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group, popularly referred to as ''yến hàng'' ('' Aerodramus fuciphagus'' and '' A. germani'').

Tourist attractions

Scuba diving and kite boarding are available, as are catamaran sailboats. Winds are steady. * Alexandre Yersin Museum * Pasteur Institute of Nha Trang *

, the largest of its kind in

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where thousands of oceanic life samples, exhibits are on display. It is home to the largest oceanic library in Vietnam. *Chánh Tọa Church (or Mountain Church) * Long Son Pagoda, and its statue of

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. *Tong Lam Lo Son Pagoda, and its statue of Amitabha Buddha. *Magical Mystery Tour Nha Trang *Boat tour on Cai River, visiting islands off the coast and Ba Hồ Waterfall *Palace of Emperor

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*Thap Ba Hot Spring (Lady Tower hot spring) *Nha Phu Lagoon *Hoa Lan Stream (Orchid Flower stream) *Monkey Island *Sạn Beach *Hòn Tằm Island (Silkworm island) *Hòn Mun Island (Ebony island) *Hòn Con Sẻ Tre Island (Bamboo Sparrow island) *Hòn Ông Island *Đảo Yến Island (Swiftlet island) *Hòn Tre Island (Bamboo island) *Suối Đổ Stream *Suối Tiên Stream (Fairy stream) *Hòn Bà Mountain *Cai River Minigolf & Restaurant & Marina *Yangbay Waterfall *Tháp Bà Pô Nagar Nha Trang (a Champa Tower) *Chùa Long Sơn (Long Son Pagoda, literally "The Dragon Mountain Pagoda" — or White Buddha Pagoda) *Trí Nguyên Aquarium (an aquarium where hundreds of rare oceanic species are fed) *

Culture

Cuisine

Local culinary specialities that attract people are bánh canh chả cá (

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with fish paddies), bún cá sứa (rice vermicelli with jelly fish) and bánh xèo mực (squid pancakes).

Nightlife

The nightlife is known as superior to other coastal towns such as Mui Ne and

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It is usually busiest around the

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and can be worth visiting most of the year, with the possible exception of the rainy period (especially November). Many tourists enjoy the Nha Trang River Cai boat ride (locally known as ''Song Cai'', as "song" means "river" in the Vietnamese language).

Transportation

When

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used to be an important naval base, Nha Trang Airport was the main airport of the city. This airport was used by the

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and Republic of Vietnam Air Force during the

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. When part of Cam Ranh Bay was made an economic development zone by the Vietnamese government, Cam Ranh International Airport (also a military airport built by the United States during Vietnam War) was made the new civilian airport of the city. This airport is located by Cam Ranh Bay, south of the city and was (as of 2007) the fourth busiest airport in passenger traffic in Vietnam serving more than 683,000 passengers in 2008. As of 2016, the airport has domestic connections to

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, Hồ Chí Minh City, Hải Phòng,

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. The city is next to the National Route 1, the backbone north–south road of the country. The Reunification Railway crosses the city and stops at Nha Trang Railway Station. The construction work of Vân Phong Port, north of the city, a deep-water project capable of handling ships up to 100,000 tonnes, and with a capacity of 100 million tonnes of cargo per annum, is under progress by a consortium of Japanese corporations. The estimated investment capital for this port-city complex project is expected to reach US$15 billion.

Gallery

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Sister cities

* Đà Lạt,

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, Malaysia

References

External links

Official website of the provincial government
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