Phúc Yên is a city in
Vĩnh Phúc Province
Vĩnh Phúc was a former province in the Red River Delta of northern Vietnam.
Administrative divisions
Vĩnh Phúc is subdivided into 8 district-level sub-divisions:
* 7 districts:
** Sông Lô
** Bình Xuyên
** Lập Thạch
** Tam Đả ...
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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.
Atlas of the World
', Oxford University Press, 2011, p. 226. As of 2003 the district had a population of 83,352.
The district covers an area of 120 km
2. The district capital lies at Phúc Yên.
The city is on
National Route 2 heading North-West out of Hanoi to the town of
Vĩnh Yên.
[Tim Doling ''North East VietNam: mountains and ethnic minorities'' 2000 Page 52 "Leaving the capital, National Road 2 heads through Phúc Yên to the town of Vĩnh Yên, 53 kilometres north west of Hà Nội."]
References
Populated places in Vĩnh Phúc province
Districts of Vĩnh Phúc province
Cities in Vietnam
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