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City in Bình Định, Vietnam

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City in Bình Định, Vietnam

Quy Nhon Thành phố Quy Nhơn
City (Class-1)
City of Quy Nhơn
Quy Nhon
Seal
Quy NhonLocation of in Vietnam
Coordinates: 13°46′N 109°14′E / 13.767°N 109.233°E / 13.767; 109.233
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 Nhơn Vietnamese: [kwiɲəːŋ] ⓘ) is a coastal city in Bình Định province in central Vietnam. It is composed of 16 wards and 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

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The origins of human settlement stretch back to the 11th-century Champa culture, the Tây Sơn dynasty as well as the 18th-century seaport of Thị Nại. The city was subject to a Mongol invasion in the Battle of Thị Nại Bay (1283) during the Mongol invasions of Vietnam. During the Ming treasure voyages of the 15th century, the Chinese fleet led by Admiral Zheng He would 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 Emperor Thành Thái. It was also the site of the Bombardment of Qui Nhơn in 1861, and more recently, it had a large American and Korean military presence, especially the Capital Mechanized Infantry Division of the Republic of Korea Army during the Vietnam 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 (with Da Nang and Nha 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 River flows 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

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Quy Nhon has a tropical monsoon climate (Am), very close to being classified as a tropical savanna climate (Köppen As), 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
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
Average relative 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 monthly sunshine 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 by Vietnam Airlines, Bamboo Airways, VietJet Air and Pacific Airlines through Phu Cat Airport, with flights to Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.[8]

Quy Nhơn railway station could be reached by a branch off the main line of the North–South railway,[9] but this line was suspended in May 2016. Reunification express trains stop only in Diêu 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 the South Central Coast, behind only Da Nang and Nha Trang.[10] It is also the major industrial and service centre of Bình Định Province, including its largest industrial facilities at Phu Tai Industrial Park and Nhơn Hội Economic Zone. The city's economic activities include industries, export-imports, seaport services, aquatic product husbandry and tourism. The economic trend, at present, is increasingly service-based at the expense of agriculture, forestry and pisciculture.

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 the Central Highlands provinces of Gia Lai and Kon Tum and even as far as Cambodia's Ratanakiri and Laos' Attapeu province. Most of the furniture factories are located in Phu Tai Industrial Park. Several chemical enterprises that supply the furniture and wood processing industry 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] Bidiphar is a pharmaceutical company headquartered in Quy Nhon that is an exception to the city's general focus on basic and wood processing industries. Nhơn Hội Economic Zone is 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 University and Quang 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

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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

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• Xavier Le Pichon (1937-), French geophysicist

Sister cities

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• Hà Tĩnh City
• Quảng Ngãi City
• Attapeu
• Champasack
• Saravane
• Sekong
• Yongsan-gu district, 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 Đạo monument in Hải Minh, Quy Nhon.
• Quy Nhon train station.
• Fishing boats anchor at the port in Quy Nhon.
• Quy Nhon in 2008.

Notes

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References

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1. ^ a b "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.
2. ^ Dreyer, Edward L. (2007). Zheng He: China and the Oceans in the Early Ming Dynasty, 1405–1433. New York: Pearson Longman. p. 52. ISBN 9780321084439.
3. ^ Larsen, Stanley; Collins, Lawton (1985). Allied Participation in Vietnam. Department of the Army. p. 130. ISBN 9781410225016. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
4. ^ 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.
5. ^ 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. ISSN 1027-5606.
6. ^ "Vietnam Institute for Building Science and Technology" (PDF).
7. ^ The Yearbook of Indochina (1932-1933)
8. ^ "Domestic flights in Vietnam". Indochina Travel Service (in Vietnamese and English). Dong Duong Co. 2012. Retrieved 15 October 2012.
9. ^ "Vietnam Railways". Archived from the original on April 18, 2010. Retrieved November 21, 2009.
10. ^ a b Atlat Dia li Viet Nam (Geographical Atlas of Vietnam). NXB Giao Duc, Hanoi: 2010
11. ^ a b c d e Bình Định Statistics Office (2010): Bình Định Statistical Yearbook 2009. Statistical Publishing House, Hanoi
12. ^ People's Committee Bình Định (2007): Yearbook of Information on Enterprises in Bình Định Province. Labour Publishing House, Hanoi: 162–165

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