Quy Nhon
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Quy Nhon
Thành phố Quy Nhơn | |
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| City of Quy Nhơn | |
 Quy Nhon | |
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  Quy Nhon Location of in Vietnam | |
| Coordinates:13°46′N109°14′E/ 13.767°N 109.233°E | |
| Country |  Vietnam |
| Province | Bình Định |
| Established city | 1986 |
| Area | |
| • Total | 286 km2(110 sq mi) |
| Population (2022) | |
| • Total | 481.110[1] |
| • Density | 1.682/km2(4.36/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+7(Indochina Time) |
| Postal code | 55100–55199 |
| Area codes | 256 |
| License plate | 77 |
| Climate | As |
Quy Nhon(Vietnamese:Quy NhơnVietnamese:[kwiɲəːŋ]) is a coastal city inBình Định provincein centralVietnam.It is composed of 16wardsand five communes with a total of 286 km2(110 sq mi). Quy Nhon is the capital of Bình Định province. As of 2022 its population was 481.110.[1]Historically, the commercial activities of the city focused on agriculture and fishing. In recent years, however, there has been a significant shift towards service industries and tourism. There is also a substantial manufacturing sector.
History
[edit]The origins of human settlement stretch back to the 11th-centuryChampaculture, theTây Sơn dynastyas well as the 18th-centuryseaport of Thị Nại.The city was subject to a Mongol invasion in theBattle of Thị Nại Bay (1283)during theMongol invasions of Vietnam.During theMing treasure voyagesof the 15th century, the Chinese fleet led by AdmiralZheng Hewould always make port at Quy Nhon in Champa as their first destination after leaving China.[2]During the 1620s the town was host to Portuguese Jesuits who called the place Pulo Cambi.
The town of Quy Nhon was officially founded in the late 19th century by EmperorThành Thái.It was also the site of theBombardment of Qui Nhơnin 1861, and more recently, it had a large American and Korean military presence, especially theCapital Mechanized Infantry Divisionof theRepublic of Korea Armyduring theVietnam War.[3]
Today the city is recognized as a first class city with a geo-economic priority and an urbanized infrastructure. The government describes it as one of the three commercial and tourism centres of the central southern coastal region (withDa NangandNha Trang).
Geography
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Quy Nhon has a varied topography, being extremely diversified with mountains and forests, hills, fields, salt marshes, plains, lagoons, lakes, rivers, shorelines, peninsulas and islands. Its coastline is 42 kilometres or 26 miles long with sandy beaches, abundant seafood resources and other natural products of economic value.Hà Thanh Riverflows through city.
The city has sixteen wards: Trần Hưng Đạo, Lê Lợi, Lê Hồng Phong, Trần Phú, Lý Thường Kiệt, Nguyễn Văn Cừ, Đống Đa, Thị Nại, Hải Cảng, Ngô Mây, Ghềnh Ráng, Quang Trung, Nhơn Bình, Nhơn Phú, Bùi Thị Xuân and Trần Quang Diệu. It has five villages: Nhơn Lý, Nhơn Hội, Nhơn Châu, Nhơn Hải and Phước Mỹ (which was spun off from Tuy Phước district and merged into Quy Nhon city in 2006) with a total area of 284.28 square kilometres or 109.76 square miles and a population of about 284,000 people.
Climate
[edit]Quy Nhon has atropical monsoon climate(Am), very close to being classified as atropical savanna climate(KöppenAs), with year round very warm to hot temperatures and distinct wet and dry seasons. The city is occasionally hit by the tail-end of typhoons hitting further up the coast.[4][5]
| Climate data for Quy Nhon | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 34.6 (94.3) |
37.9 (100.2) |
39.8 (103.6) |
42.1 (107.8) |
41.7 (107.1) |
41.4 (106.5) |
42.1 (107.8) |
40.9 (105.6) |
39.0 (102.2) |
37.3 (99.1) |
34.6 (94.3) |
33.0 (91.4) |
42.1 (107.8) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 26.6 (79.9) |
27.7 (81.9) |
29.3 (84.7) |
31.3 (88.3) |
33.1 (91.6) |
34.2 (93.6) |
34.3 (93.7) |
34.3 (93.7) |
32.8 (91.0) |
30.2 (86.4) |
28.3 (82.9) |
26.7 (80.1) |
30.7 (87.3) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 23.3 (73.9) |
24.1 (75.4) |
25.6 (78.1) |
27.6 (81.7) |
29.2 (84.6) |
30.0 (86.0) |
30.0 (86.0) |
29.9 (85.8) |
28.6 (83.5) |
26.9 (80.4) |
25.6 (78.1) |
24.0 (75.2) |
27.1 (80.8) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 21.2 (70.2) |
21.7 (71.1) |
23.1 (73.6) |
25.0 (77.0) |
26.4 (79.5) |
27.1 (80.8) |
27.0 (80.6) |
27.0 (80.6) |
25.8 (78.4) |
24.6 (76.3) |
23.6 (74.5) |
22.1 (71.8) |
24.6 (76.3) |
| Record low °C (°F) | 15.2 (59.4) |
15.7 (60.3) |
15.8 (60.4) |
19.4 (66.9) |
19.1 (66.4) |
21.7 (71.1) |
20.6 (69.1) |
20.7 (69.3) |
20.5 (68.9) |
17.9 (64.2) |
15.0 (59.0) |
15.5 (59.9) |
15.0 (59.0) |
| Average rainfall mm (inches) | 66.8 (2.63) |
28.2 (1.11) |
33.0 (1.30) |
33.8 (1.33) |
85.2 (3.35) |
62.1 (2.44) |
44.2 (1.74) |
77.2 (3.04) |
230.6 (9.08) |
521.0 (20.51) |
464.3 (18.28) |
205.5 (8.09) |
1,851.8 (72.91) |
| Average rainy days | 13.6 | 6.6 | 5.4 | 4.7 | 8.6 | 7.8 | 7.2 | 9.5 | 15.7 | 21.4 | 21.9 | 19.1 | 141.4 |
| Averagerelative humidity(%) | 80.9 | 81.6 | 82.5 | 82.2 | 79.5 | 73.5 | 71.7 | 70.8 | 77.8 | 82.5 | 83.2 | 81.8 | 79.0 |
| Mean monthlysunshine hours | 154.8 | 187.4 | 237.7 | 261.4 | 273.2 | 248.2 | 249.4 | 235.7 | 199.3 | 163.1 | 123.2 | 111.4 | 2,444.6 |
| Source 1: Vietnam Institute for Building Science and Technology[6] | |||||||||||||
| Source 2: The Yearbook of Indochina (1932-1933)[7] | |||||||||||||
Transportation
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Quy Nhon is served byVietnam Airlines,Bamboo Airways,VietJet AirandPacific AirlinesthroughPhu Cat Airport,with flights toHanoiandHo Chi Minh City.[8]
Quy Nhơn railway stationcould be reached by a branch off the main line of theNorth–South railway,[9]but this line was suspended in May 2016. Reunification express trains stop only inDiêu Trì railway station,which is around 10 kilometres or 6 miles west of Quy Nhon.
Economy
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Quy Nhon is one of the main industrial centres of theSouth Central Coast,behind only Da Nang and Nha Trang.[10]It is also the major industrial and service centre ofBình Định Province,including its largest industrial facilities atPhu Tai Industrial ParkandNhơn Hội Economic Zone.The city's economic activities include industries, export-imports, seaport services, aquatic product husbandry and tourism. Theeconomic trend,at present, is increasingly service-based at the expense of agriculture, forestry andpisciculture.
Cereals are cultivated on 2548 ha of Quy Nhon's land with an output of 13,021 tons as of 2009, just 2% of the province's total.[11]Other crops included 10,891 tons of vegetables, 2,795 tons of sugar-cane, as well as smaller amounts of coconuts, peanuts and cashew nuts.[11]
Much of the city's industry is concentrated in and around Phu Tai Industrial Park in the west of the city along National Route 1A. Quy Nhon is a major centre of garden furniture manufacturing. It has traditionally been relying on access to wood from Bình Định's forests as well as theCentral Highlandsprovinces ofGia LaiandKon Tumand even as far asCambodia'sRatanakiriandLaos'Attapeu province.Most of the furniture factories are located in Phu Tai Industrial Park. Several chemical enterprises that supply the furniture andwood processingindustry have been set up in the vicinity of the industrial park.[12]
Other industries in Quy Nhon process agricultural and aquatic products, or produce construction materials and paper products.[10]Bidipharis a pharmaceutical company headquartered in Quy Nhon that is an exception to the city's general focus on basic andwood processingindustries.Nhơn Hội Economic Zoneis central to the city's and province's industrial development plans. However, as of late 2010 it was still in the early stages of development, with few factories completed.
Quy Nhon has seen only limited foreign investment. As of 2008, thirteen foreign companies employed 1119 people in the city.[11]
Currently the economic structure of Quy Nhon is a shift towards increasing the proportion of service industries, reducing the rate of agriculture, forestry and fisheries in GDP. The shares of agriculture, forestry and fisheries – industrial and construction – services in GDP in 2006 reached 36.7%, 28% and 35.3%, respectively, while in 2005 it was at 38.4%, 26.7% and 34.9%, respectively.
The income per capita in 2018 was US$6,025 per person.
Education
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Quy Nhon has two universities:Quy Nhon UniversityandQuang Trung University.As of 2009 they had a total teaching staff of 601 and 23,383 students, 13,704 of whom were female.[11]There were 19,900 primary school students and 28,500 secondary school students.[11]
Cuisine
[edit]Quy Nhon is home to multiple domestically famous Vietnamese dishes:
- Bánh xèo tôm nhảy(jumping-shrimps fried pancake): These pancakes are made with special formulas and each restaurant has its own way of making distinguished dipping fish sauce for this dish.
- Bánh hỏi cháo lòng:The dish composes of two sub-dishes: "Bánh hỏi"(a type of rice cake in Vietnam) and" cháo lòng "(pig's internal organs porridge).
- Bún chả cá(fish-cake rice vermicelli).
- Chả ram tôm đất(shrimp spring roll).
Notable people
[edit]- Xavier Le Pichon(1937-), French geophysicist
Sister cities
[edit]- Hà TĩnhCity
- Quảng NgãiCity
Attapeu- Champasack
- Saravane
- Sekong
Yongsan-gudistrict,Seoul
Gallery
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Quy Nhon landscape -
Quy Nhon city seen from above -
The boat docked at Quy Nhơn port -
Quy Nhơn Beach -
Statue of Quang Trung, Quy Nhơn -
A corner of Quy Nhơn city in the early morning -
Trần Hưng Đạomonument in Hải Minh, Quy Nhon. -
Quy Nhon train station. -
Fishing boats anchor at the port in Quy Nhon. -
Quy Nhon in 2008.
Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ab"Tổng điều tra dân số và nhà ở Việt Nam năm 2009: Kết quả toàn bộ".Ban chỉ đạo Tổng điều tra dân số và nhà ở trung ương. p. 23.
- ^Dreyer, Edward L.(2007).Zheng He: China and the Oceans in the Early Ming Dynasty, 1405–1433.New York: Pearson Longman. p. 52.ISBN9780321084439.
- ^Larsen, Stanley; Collins, Lawton (1985).Allied Participation in Vietnam.Department of the Army. p. 130.ISBN9781410225016.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in thepublic domain.
- ^Kottek, Markus; Grieser, Jürgen; Beck, Christoph; Rudolf, Bruno; Rubel, Franz (2006)."World Map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification updated"(PDF).Meteorologische Zeitschrift.15(3): 259–263.Bibcode:2006MetZe..15..259K.doi:10.1127/0941-2948/2006/0130.
- ^Peel, M. C.; Finlayson B. L. & McMahon, T. A. (2007)."Updated world map of the Köppen–Geiger climate classification"(PDF).Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci.11(5): 1633–1644.Bibcode:2007HESS...11.1633P.doi:10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007.ISSN1027-5606.
- ^"Vietnam Institute for Building Science and Technology"(PDF).
- ^The Yearbook of Indochina (1932-1933)
- ^"Domestic flights in Vietnam".Indochina Travel Service(in Vietnamese and English). Dong Duong Co. 2012.Retrieved15 October2012.
- ^"Vietnam Railways".Archived fromthe originalon April 18, 2010.RetrievedNovember 21,2009.
- ^abAtlat Dia li Viet Nam (Geographical Atlas of Vietnam). NXB Giao Duc, Hanoi: 2010
- ^abcdeBình Định Statistics Office (2010): Bình Định Statistical Yearbook 2009. Statistical Publishing House, Hanoi
- ^People's Committee Bình Định (2007):Yearbook of Information on Enterprises in Bình Định Province.Labour Publishing House, Hanoi: 162–165
External links
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Quy Nhontravel guide from Wikivoyage
13°46′N109°14′E/ 13.767°N 109.233°E
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