Thái Binh Province

Thai Binh Province
Thai Binh Province; Tỉnh Thái Bình
	— Province —
	Keo pagoda, Thái Bình, Vietnam
	Nickname(s): Great Peace
	Location of Thai Binh within Vietnam
	Coordinates: 20°30′N 106°20′E / 20.500°N 106.333°ECoordinates: 20°30′N 106°20′E / 20.500°N 106.333°E
Country	Vietnam
Region	Red River Delta
Capital	Thái Bình
	Government
• People's Council Chair	Nguyễn Hạnh Phúc
• People's Committee Chair	Phạm Văn Sinh
	Area
• Total	1,542 km2 (595 sq mi)
	Population (2009)
• Total	1,780,954
• Density	1,200/km2 (3,000/sq mi)
	Demographics
• Ethnicities	Vietnamese
Time zone	ICT (UTC+7)
Calling code	36
ISO 3166 code	VN-20
Website	thaibinh.gov.vn

Thái Bình ( listen) is a coastal eastern province in the Red River Delta region of northern Vietnam, named after the Vietnamese name for the Pacific Ocean: Thái Bình Dương.^{citation needed} It is about 18 km from Nam Dinh, 70 km from Haiphong, and 110 km from Hanoi.

Districts

Thai Binh is divided into one city (Thái Bình city) and seven districts:

People and culture

Although situated in the centre of the Red River Delta, in the past, Thai Binh was considered an island bounded by three larger rivers, and is the only province never to have been merged or separated. This position gives the people of Thai Binh a quite distinct culture. Thai Binh is the homeland of hát chèo opera (in Khuốc village, Phong Châu commune, Đông Hưng district ¹²³) and water puppet (in Nguyên Xá commune, Đông Hưng district ⁴⁵⁶ ). Thai Binh people are noted for their practical and clever character.

Thai Binh is the homeland of the most prolific and famous Vietnamese savant in the Middle Ages: Lê Quý Đôn. Tran Thu Do, the founder of the Trần Dynasty, was born in Hưng Hà district. Bùi Viện, the founder of Haiphong city, was a famous reformer in the 19th century. He was the first Vietnamese known to have visited the United States and also served as ambassador to the United States under the Nguyễn Dynasty.

The first Vietnamese to travel into outer space was the cosmonaut Phạm Tuân, a native of Thai Binh. Two other natives of Thai Binh are the ones who finalized the two famous wars in Vietnam: Tạ Quốc Luật, who captured Christian de Castries and raised the victory flag in the Battle of Dien Bien Phu (the First Indochina War) and Bùi Quang Thận, who led a group of Northern tanks and entered the headquarters of South Vietnam's government to make president Dương Văn Minh unconditionally surrender (the second Indochina War). Thai Binh is also the homeland of several famous Vietnamese political dissidents and humanitarians. Thích Quảng Độ is a Vietnamese Buddhist leader and critic of the Vietnamese government. In 2006, he was awarded the Thorolf Rafto Memorial Prize, and was also a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize. Dương Thu Hương, arguably the most famous postwar Vietnamese writer, whose novel Paradise of the Blind (Những thiên đường mù, 1988) became the first Vietnamese novel ever published in the United States in English,⁷ is also a famous political dissident. Nguyễn Hữu Đang, born in Kiến Xương district, was the leader and prominent victim of the Nhân Văn affair - a movement for a movement for political and cultural freedom of Vietnamese intellectuals. This affair is one of the most tragic events in modern Vietnamese history.

Some Thai Binh people are among the richest in Vietnam, including Vu Quang Hoi who is the founder of Bitexco group (who owns The Financial Tower in Ho Chi Minh City, The Manor luxury building in Hanoi, etc.), Vu Van Tien, founder of Geleximco - the largest private company in Hanoi and AB Bank, a large private bank. Quách Tuấn Ngọc, a native of Đông Hưng, while a professor of computer science in Hanoi University of Technology, authored the first successfully commercial domestic software: BKED (Bach khoa Editor) - a system for processing Vietnamese text, in the 1980s.

Etymology

The province's name derives from Sino-Vietnamese 太平 meaning "great peace".

References

^ "Culture-Religion". Thaibinhtrade.gov.vn. Retrieved 2010-06-15.
^ "Trang tin bài". Nhan Dan. 2007-09-29. Retrieved 2010-06-15. ^{dead link}
^ Thứ 4 ngày 16 tháng 06 năm 2010. "Chao mung cac ban den voi Website UBND Tinh Thai Binh". Thaibinh.gov.vn. Retrieved 2010-06-15. ^{dead link}
^ Librios Semantic Environment (2006-08-02). "Việt Nam: Puppetry". Culturalprofiles.net. Retrieved 2010-06-15.
^ "Words on a wire: a water puppet troupe in northern Vietnam has survived nasty spells of cold weather, intense local competition and even war. So what's the secret of their success? Special agent Bich Ngoc slips on her waders and heads down to the local pond. (History & Culture). | Goliath Business News". Goliath.ecnext.com. 2002-11-25. Retrieved 2010-06-15.
^ "Trang tin bài". Nhan Dan. 2008-01-29. Retrieved 2010-06-15. ^{dead link}
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External links

Official Site of Thai Binh Government

[1] "Culture-Religion". Thaibinhtrade.gov.vn. Retrieved 2010-06-15.

[2] "Trang tin bài". Nhan Dan. 2007-09-29. Retrieved 2010-06-15. ^{dead link}

[3] Thứ 4 ngày 16 tháng 06 năm 2010. "Chao mung cac ban den voi Website UBND Tinh Thai Binh". Thaibinh.gov.vn. Retrieved 2010-06-15. ^{dead link}

[4] Librios Semantic Environment (2006-08-02). "Việt Nam: Puppetry". Culturalprofiles.net. Retrieved 2010-06-15.

[5] "Words on a wire: a water puppet troupe in northern Vietnam has survived nasty spells of cold weather, intense local competition and even war. So what's the secret of their success? Special agent Bich Ngoc slips on her waders and heads down to the local pond. (History & Culture). | Goliath Business News". Goliath.ecnext.com. 2002-11-25. Retrieved 2010-06-15.

[6] "Trang tin bài". Nhan Dan. 2008-01-29. Retrieved 2010-06-15. ^{dead link}

[7] [1]^{dead link}

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