Äiện Biên Province
Dien Bien ( Listen? / I ) is a province of Vietnam. It lies in the northwest of the country in the Northwest region. The province was formed in 2004 from part of the province of Lai Chau. The provincial capital is Dien Bien Phu.
Geography
The landscape of the province is mostly mountainous. The highest peak of the massif in the center of Dien Bien is 2179 meters high. The river Ma ( Sông Mã ) originates in the province. The Black River ( Sông Da ) forms the border with the province of Dien Bien Lai Chau. In addition, adjacent to Dien Bien Sơn La, the Laotian provinces Phongsali and Luang Prabang and the Chinese province of Yunnan.
History
To today's provincial capital of Dien Bien Phu was anciently the principality Muang Theng (or Müang Thaeng ) of the Tai Dam ( "Black Tai" ). The Khun Borom - legend ( kind creation myth of the Tai peoples a ) According Muang Theng was the original home of the Tai, which subsequently split into several tribes and then Laos, Thailand, populated areas in eastern Burma and in the far south of China.
Muang Theng and several other chiefdoms ( Müang / Muong ), mainly the Tai Dam and Tai Don ( "White Tai" ), joined together to form the Confederacy Sipsong Chuthai (or Sip Song Chau T (h ) ai; translated as " twelve principalities the Tai " ) together. Their areas encompassed roughly the modern provinces of Dien Bien, Lai Châu, Sơn La, the southwestern parts of Lào Cai and Yen Bai.
The Tai principalities had a long time to pay far reaching autonomy in internal affairs, but had temporarily tribute to overlords in China, Vietnam, Lan Xang or Luang Prabang (now Laos) and Siam (Thailand) to their zones of influence overlap (Mandala ) they belonged. Despite the greater ethnic and cultural ties with Laos Sipsong Chuthai was incorporated in 1888 in the French protectorate of Tonkin and thus part of French Indochina. However, the colonial masters left the Tai chieftains of the Pays Taï on their thrones, and allowed them to regulate their own affairs largely independently.
In Indochina War ( 1946-54 ) the area between French colonial forces and the Việt Minh and the People's Army of the People's Democratic Republic of Vietnam was fought. The latter added the French in the very heavy losses for both sides battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954 to a decisive defeat. In the following years they moved many members of the local Tai ethnic groups drawn from the war- affected area in the U.S., France and Australia.
The DVR Vietnam taught in 1955 in the predominantly inhabited by ethnic minorities, the Autonomous Region Northwest area a. This was 1975, however, divided into several provinces. Then Dien Bien belonged until 2004 to the province of Lai Chau, before it was separated from it and set up as an independent province.
Districts
Dien Bien is divided into 6 districts:
- Dien Bien
- Dien Bien Dong
- Muong Chà (formerly Muong Lay )
- Muong Nhe
- Tua Chùa
- Tuan Giao
Dien Bien Phu ( provincial capital ) and Muong Lay are own communities.
Regions: North West | North East | Red River Delta | North Coast Region | South Coast Region | Central Highlands | South East | Mekong Delta
Major cities: Can Tho | Da Nang | Haiphong | Hà Nội | Thành Pho Hồ Chí Minh
Provinces: An Giang | Bắc Giang | Bắc Kan | Bac Lieu | Bắc Ninh | Ba Ria- Vung Tau | Bến Tre | Bình Định | Bình Dương | Bình Phước | Bình Thuận | Cà Mau | Cao Bằng | Đắk Lak | Đắk Nong | Dien Bien | Đồng Nai | Dong Thap | Gia Lai | Hà Giang | Hải Dương | Hà Nam | Hà Tinh | Hòa Bình | Hau Giang | Hưng Yên | Khánh Hòa | Kiên Giang | Kon Tum | Lai Châu | Lâm Đồng | Lạng Sơn | Lào Cai | Long An | Nam Định | Nghe An | Ninh Binh | Ninh Thuận | Phú Thọ | Phú Yên | Quảng Bình | Quang Nam | Quang Ngai | Quảng Ninh | Quang Tri | Sóc Trăng | Sơn La | Tây Ninh | Thái Bình | Thái Nguyên | Thanh Hóa | Thua Thien Hue - | Tiền Giang | Trà Vinh | Tuyen Quang | Vinh Long | Vĩnh Phúc | Yen Bai
- Province in Vietnam