hanoi

     

Hanoi (Vietnamese: Hà Nội, Hán Tự: 河内) pronunciation (help·info), estimate population 3.398.889 (2007) , is the capital of Vietnam. From 1010 until 1802, it was the political centre of an independent Vietnam with a few brief interruptions. It was eclipsed by Huế during the Nguyen Dynasty as the capital of Vietnam, but served as the capital of French Indochina from 1887 to 1954. From 1954 to 1976, it was the capital of North Vietnam.

Trivia about hanoi

  • Ho Chi Minh is buried in this capital city
  • In Vietnam, it's second to Ho Chi Minh City
  • Haiphong near the Gulf of Tonkin serves as this city's main port
  • John McCain was shot down over this capital in 1967
  • Following college, Anderson Cooper studied Vietnamese at the University of this Asian capital city
  • (Hi, I'm Anderson Cooper of CNN.) A few years after I graduated from Yale, I spent 5 months studying Vietnamese at the University of this world capital
  • Air Force vet Sam Johnson, ranked in 2011 as most conservative congressman, spent 7 years as a P.O.W. in this city
  • When North & South Vietnam were reunited in 1976, this city was designated the capital
  • Hilton's first hotel in this city opened in 1999; the earlier "Hilton" there was actually a prison
  • Ho Chi Minh's remains are on display in a mausoleum in Ba Dinh Square in this Vietnamese city
  • In 1831 the city of Thang Long changed its name to this, a capital idea by the Vietnamese
  • Make a resolution to tell us the name of this Vietnamese capital that lies on the Red River in the Tonkin Delta
  • A book on "the Vietnam War in American film" is titled "From" this city "to Hollywood"
  • Hanoi,Phnom Penh,Rangoon,Vientiane

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