Thái Bình Province

Thái Bình Tỉnh one of the smaller provinces of Vietnam. It is located in the Red River Delta. The capital is Thái Bình, about 110 km southeast of Hanoi and 70 km south-west of Haiphong. The average temperature is 23.5 ° C. Bounded it is from the five provinces Hải Dương, Hưng Yên, Haiphong, Ha Nam and Nam Định. In the east, the province bordering the Gulf of Tonkin.

The province is of four major rivers flowing through it: northeast of the 35 km long Sông Hóa, northwest of the Sông Luoc, 53 km long, south of a 67 km long lower reaches of the Red River ( Song Hong ) and the Sông Trà Ly, a long 65 km run page of the Sông Hồng.

Demography

In the province of different ethnic groups, the majority of which represent the Việt / Kinh live. Continue living there in smaller groups of Hoa, Muong and Tay.

Administrative Divisions

The ISO 3166-2 code for Ninh Binh is UN 20th The province is divided into the city Thái Bình and in the following seven districts: Ðông Hưng, Hưng Ha, Kien Xuong, Phu Quỳnh, Thái Thuy, Tiền Hải and Vu Thu. The telephone prefix is 84 ( 0) 36 33 Postal code and the license plate number 17

Daughters and sons of the province

• Phạm Tuan ( born February 14, 1947 in Quốc Tuấn ) engineer and cosmonaut, the first and only Vietnamese who was in space.

Gallery

The diocese Thái Bình Cathedral

Chùa ( Pagoda) Keo

Chùa Keo