township
A township is a form of human settlement or administrative subdivision. Its exact definition varies among countries.
Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, this tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Canad ...
Hà Giang Province
Hà Giang (, ) was formerly a Provinces of Vietnam, province in the Northeast (Vietnam), Northeast region of Vietnam. It was located in the far north of the country, and contains Vietnam's northernmost point. It shared a 270 km long China-Vi ...
Its name Cốc Pài was originally formed from the wrong writing of the French tourist maps in the early 20th century, that is, the time when this township was not yet established but still a deserted valley. Meanwhile, it was called as Cốc Phẩy by local residents. This is a
Hmong
Hmong may refer to:
* Hmong people, an ethnic group living mainly in Southwest China, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand
* Hmong cuisine
* Hmong customs and culture
** Hmong music
** Hmong textile art
* Hmong language, a continuum of closely related ...
word but source from the Kinh language, a rare phenomenon in Annam or Vietnam before, because most of the residents here are descendants of the low-level merchants from 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 ...
to settlement after French victory to the
Qing Dynasty
The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing, was a Manchu-led Dynasties of China, imperial dynasty of China and an early modern empire in East Asia. The last imperial dynasty in Chinese history, the Qing dynasty was preceded by the ...
. It means Gốc Phay, or "the
duabanga
''Duabanga'' is a small genus of lowland evergreen rainforest trees in southeast Asia, comprising two or three species.
''Duabanga'' was traditionally included in the ditypic family Sonneratiaceae, but it is now classified in its own monotypic s ...