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Đông Nam Bộ
Đông Nam Bộ (literally "Southeast region") is a region in Southern Vietnam. This region includes one municipality, Ho Chi Minh City; and five provinces: Đồng Nai, Bình Dương, Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province, Bình Phước and Tây Ninh. The two south central provinces Ninh Thuận and Bình Thuận are sometimes seen as part of the Southeast region. This region is the most economically developed region in Vietnam. In 2006, this region contributed 148,000 billion VND (equal to $9.25 billion) out of 251,000 billion VND to the state budget.Official fiscal report in 2006 by the Ministry of Finance of Vietnam at its official websit/ref> This region is also the most highly urbanized in the country with more than 50% people living in urban areas (while the equivalent figure for Vietnam is just 25%). Provinces Principal cities *Ho Chi Minh City is the largest city of Vietnam, with a population of more than 9.3 million; it has the highest population in the Ho Chi M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Human Development Index
The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistical composite index of life expectancy, Education Index, education (mean years of schooling completed and expected years of schooling upon entering the education system), and per capita income indicators, which is used to rank countries into four tiers of Human development (humanity), human development. A country scores a higher level of HDI when the life expectancy at birth, lifespan is higher, the education level is higher, and the gross national income GNI (PPP) per capita is higher. It was developed by Pakistani economist Mahbub ul-Haq and was further used to measure a country's development by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)'s Human Development Report Office. The 2010 Human Development Report introduced an List of countries by inequality-adjusted Human Development Index, inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI). While the simple HDI remains useful, it stated that "the IHDI is the actual level of huma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General Statistics Office Of Vietnam
The General Statistics Office of Vietnam (GSO; ) is an agency under the Ministry of Finance, performing the function of the state management for statistics; conducting statistical activities and providing social and economic information to organizations and individuals domestically and internationally in accordance with the law. Organizational structure and finance The General Statistics Office is headed by the Director General, overseeing multiple departments, 63 provincial statistical offices, and 480 district statistical offices. Departments #System of National Accounts Department; #Statistical Methodology Standard and IT Department; #Integrated Statistics Department; #Industrial Statistics Department; #Agricultural, Forestry & Fishery Statistics Department; #Trade and Services Statistics Department; #Population & Labor Statistics Department; #Social and Environmental Statistics Department; #Foreign Statistics and International Cooperation Department; #Human Resources Depa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Long Thanh International Airport
Long Thanh International Airport is an international airport under construction in Long Thành district, Đồng Nai province, Vietnam, approximately east of Ho Chi Minh City. It will be the second airport to serve the Ho Chi Minh City metropolitan area, after the existing Tan Son Nhat International Airport. It is being built as an alternative to the existing airport, in order to relieve its increasing traffic, demand and congestion, as it could not be further expanded due to urban growth around it. The Government of Vietnam approved its construction on 4 January 2021. Construction began the next day on 5 January, and its first phase was scheduled to be finished by September 2025, but now it is expected to be finished by the first half of 2026. The airport will serve over 100 million passengers and five million tonnes of cargo annually when built to the maximum designed capacity, making it the largest airport in Vietnam, Southeast Asia and one of the largest in the world. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tan Son Nhat International Airport
Tan Son Nhat International Airport is an international airport serving Ho Chi Minh City, the List of cities in Vietnam, most populous city in Vietnam. The airport is located in the Tân Bình district within the Ho Chi Minh City metropolitan area. It is the List of the busiest airports in Vietnam, busiest airport in Vietnam, with 32.5 million passengers in 2016, 38.5 million passengers in 2018, and about 41 million passengers in 2023. As of December 2023, it is the List of busiest airports by passenger traffic, 50th-busiest airport in the world, and the fourth-busiest in Southeast Asia. As of April 2025, it has a total capacity of approximately 50 million passengers following the opening of Terminal 3. Previous capacity limits of approximately 30 million passengers had caused constant and increasing traffic and congestion, leading to the construction of a Long Thanh International Airport, new airport as an alternative, scheduled to be completed by the first half of 2026. Of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caodaism
Caodaism (; ; ; ) or Cao Đài is a Vietnamese Monotheism, monotheistic Religious syncretism, syncretic religion that retains many elements from Vietnamese folk religion such as Veneration of the dead, ancestor worship, as well as "ethical precepts from Confucianism, occult practices from Taoism, theories of Karma in Buddhism, karma and Rebirth (Buddhism), rebirth from Buddhism, and a Hierarchy of the Catholic Church, hierarchical organization from Roman Catholicism". It was officially established in the city of Tây Ninh in Southern Vietnam in 1926. The full name of the religion is ( 'The Great Faith [for the] Third Universal Redemption'). Adherents engage in practices such as prayer, veneration of ancestors, nonviolence, and vegetarianism with the goal of union with God and freedom from saṃsāra. Estimates of the number of Caodaists in Vietnam vary; government figures estimate 4.4 million Caodaists affiliated to the Cao Đài Tây Ninh Holy See, with numbers rising up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vũng Tàu
Vũng Tàu (''Hanoi accent:'' , ''Saigon accent:'' ) is an important port city in southern Vietnam. It serves as the maritime port of Ho Chi Minh City, the largest city in Vietnam. Vũng Tàu covers of area and consists of 16 urban wards and one commune of Long Sơn Island. Vũng Tàu was the capital of the province until it was replaced by the much smaller Bà Rịa city on 2 May 2012. The city is also the crude oil extraction center of Vietnam. Administrative divisions Since April 2015, Vũng Tàu consists of 16 wards (phường): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, Thắng Nhất, Thắng Nhì (formerly Ward 6), Thắng Tam, Nguyễn An Ninh, Rạch Dừa, and the commune (xã) of Long Sơn. The wards are divided into quarters (khu phố), which are divided into smaller groups (tổ dân phố). The commune is divided into hamlets (thôn). History According to archeological excavations in 2002 and 2005 in Giồng Lớn, a coastal sandbank in Long Sơn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bien Hoa Air Base
Bien Hoa Air Base (Vietnamese language, Vietnamese: ''Sân bay Biên Hòa'') is a Vietnam People's Air Force (VPAF) military airfield located in South-Central southern Vietnam about from Ho Chi Minh City, across the Dong Nai river in the northern ward of Tân Phong, Biên Hòa, Tân Phong, and within the city of Biên Hòa within Đồng Nai Province. The boomburb city is densely populated and rings the base, despite significant levels of Agent Orange toxins simply left there for decades. Cleanup and remediation began in 2019. During the Vietnam War the base was used by the Republic of Vietnam Air Force (RVNAF). The United States used it as a major base from 1961 through 1973, stationing United States Army, Army, United States Air Force, Air Force, United States Navy, Navy and United States Marine Corps, Marine units there. Origins Bien Hoa is located on flat grounds in a rural area northeast of Saigon. The French Air Force established an air base, the ''Base aérienne tactiqu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
