Ý Yên
˧˥:iən˧˧is a former
rural district
A rural district was a type of local government area – now superseded – established at the end of the 19th century in England, Wales
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of
Nam Định province in the
Red River Delta
The Red River Delta or Hong River Delta () is the flat low-lying plain formed by the Red River and its distributaries merging with the Thái Bình River in Northern Vietnam. ''Hồng'' (紅) is a Sino-Vietnamese word for "red" or "crimson". T ...
region of
Vietnam
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.
Geography
As of 2003 the district had a population of 241,689.
The district covers an area of 240 km². The district capital lies at Lâm.
Notes and references
Notes
References
Further reading
Bibliography
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Khiếu Năng Tĩnh,
Tân biên Nam Định tỉnh địa dư chí lược', 1880.
*Nguyễn On Ngọc,
Nam Định tỉnh địa dư chí', 1893.
*
George Coedes. ''The Making of South East Asia'', 2nd ed.
University of California
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Press, 1983.
*
Trần Ngọc Thêm. ''Cơ sở văn hóa Việt Nam'' (The Foundation of Vietnamese Culture), 504 pages. Publishing by Nhà xuất bản Đại học Tổng hợp TPHCM.
Saigon
Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) ('','' TP.HCM; ), commonly known as Saigon (; ), is the most populous city in Vietnam with a population of around 14 million in 2025.
The city's geography is defined by rivers and canals, of which the largest is Saigo ...
,
Vietnam
Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's List of countries and depende ...
, 1995.
*
Li Tana (2011). ''Jiaozhi (Giao Chỉ) in the Han period Tongking Gulf''. In Cooke, Nola ; Li Tana ; Anderson, James A. (eds.). The Tongking Gulf Through History. University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 39–44. ISBN 9780812205022.
*
Li Tana,
Towards an environmental history of the eastern Red River Delta, Vietnam, c.900–1400',
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 2014.
*
Samuel Baron,
Christoforo Borri,
Olga Dror,
Keith W. Taylor (2018). ''Views of Seventeenth-Century Vietnam : Christoforo Borri on Cochinchina and Samuel Baron on Tonkin''. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-1-501-72090-1.
External links
Let Ý Yên become a western economic district of our province(vi)
Ý Yên implemented many solutions to create jobs for workers(vi)
Districts of Nam Định province
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