Hà Tĩnh province

Hà Tĩnh
Province
Clockwise from top left:
Official seal of Hà Tĩnh
Seal
Map
Interactive map of Hà Tĩnh
Coordinates: 18°20′N 105°54′E / 18.333°N 105.900°E / 18.333; 105.900
Country Vietnam
RegionNorth Central Coast
Government centreThành Sen ward
Government
 • Party SecretaryNguyễn Duy Lâm
 • People's Council ChairNguyễn Hồng Lĩnh
 • People's Committee ChairPhan Thiên Định
Area
[1]
 • Total
5,994.45 km2 (2,314.47 sq mi)
Population
 (2024)[2]
 • Total
1,629,800
 • Density271.88/km2 (704.18/sq mi)
Demographics
 • EthnicitiesVietnamese, Thai, Chứt, Mường
GDP[3]
 • TotalVND 63.236 trillion
US$ 2.830 billion
Time zoneUTC+7 (ICT)
Area codes239
ISO 3166 codeVN-23
HDI (2020)Increase 0.730[4]
(20th)
Websitewww.hatinh.gov.vn

Hà Tĩnh is a province in the North Central Coast region of Vietnam. It borders Nghệ An to the north, Quảng Bình to the south, Laos to the west, and the South China Sea (Gulf of Tonkin) to the east.

Hà Tĩnh together with neighbouring Nghệ An province the two provinces are together called "Nghệ Tĩnh", and the locals are known for speaking Vietnamese with a regional accent.[5][6]

Geography

Hà Tĩnh is about 340 km (211 miles) south of Hanoi.[7]

The climate is sub-tropical, with cooler temperatures in winter; Vietnam's highest ever temperature, 43.4 degrees Celsius (110 Fahrenheit), was recorded in the province in 2019.[8]

Economy

Agriculture, forestry and fishery takes up 35.5% of total GDP and the province's GDP accounts for 0.7% of Vietnam's GDP. Vũng Áng harbour with some plants, factories and a thermal power station is becoming the most active economic hub. Vietnam Steel operates an iron mine in Thạch Khê District,[9] with reserves of 544 million tonnes of iron.[10]

A US$10 billion iron and steel plant was built in Vũng Áng in the 2010s (see Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Corporation). The steel plant is part of an industrial park, which is estimated to cost more than US$20 billion. When finished in 2020, the industrial park will have a port, a 2,100-MW power plant and a steel plant with six blast furnaces.[11] In 2016, the Formosa Steel plant released untreated waste water with heavy metals and other toxins into the nearby sea, which caused the 2016 Vietnam marine life disaster.[12]

History

Drawing of Hà Tĩnh citadel in the Nguyễn dynasty
Drawing of Hà Thanh citadel in the Nguyễn dynasty

In chữ Hán, the province's name is written as 河靜, meaning "quiet river". Beginning in 1930 Hà Tĩnh, along with Nghệ An and Quảng Ngãi, was one of the early grounds for the Vietnamese rural Soviet movement and protests.[13][14]

References

  1. ^ Biểu số 4.3: Hiện trạng sử dụng đất vùng Bắc Trung Bộ và Duyên hải miền Trung năm 2022 [Table 4.3: Current land use status in the North Central and South Central Coast regions in 2022] (PDF) (Decision 3048/QĐ-BTNMT) (in Vietnamese). Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (Vietnam). 18 October 2023. – the data in the report are in hectares, rounded to integers
  2. ^ Statistical Handbook of Vietnam 2014 Archived July 6, 2015, at the Wayback Machine, General Statistics Office Of Vietnam
  3. ^ "Tình hình kinh tế, xã hội Hà Tĩnh năm 2018". Cục Thống kê tỉnh Hà Tĩnh. Archived from the original on 6 February 2021. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
  4. ^ "Human Development Index by province(*) by Cities, provincies and Year". General Statistics Office of Vietnam. Retrieved September 28, 2024.
  5. ^ Thê ́Anh Nguyêñ, Alain Forest Guerre et paix en Asie du Sud-Est p. 110 1998 " ... the regional way of speaking in the southern part of Thanh Nghệ, the so-called Nghệ Tĩnh (Nghệ An and Hà Tĩnh) dialect, ..."
  6. ^ Jonathan D. London Education in Vietnam 2011 p. 186 "A teacher from Hà Tĩnh province acknowledged this issue, quipping that his distinctive and “heavy” Hà Tĩnh accent would be tough even for most Việt teachers, let alone students."
  7. ^ Vietnam+ (VietnamPlus) (2017-01-29). "Central Ha Tinh province looks to tap sea tourism potential". Vietnam+ (VietnamPlus) (in Vietnamese). Retrieved 2026-02-02.
  8. ^ "To beat the heat, Vietnam rice farmers resort to planting at night". VNExpress International. Reuters. 26 June 2020. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
  9. ^ Geological Survey (U.S.), Minerals Yearbook: Area Reports: International 2008: Asia and the Pacific, pp. 22-12, 26-9.
  10. ^ "Vung Ang economic zone grows into national industrial centre -- Vietnam+ (VietnamPlus)". Archived from the original on 2013-07-23.
  11. ^ "Up to 21 dead, doctor says, as anti-China riots spread in Vietnam". Reuters. Archived from the original on 2023-06-08.
  12. ^ Steve Mullman (30 June 2016). "A Taiwanese Steel Plant Caused Vietnam's Mass Fish Deaths the Government Says". Quartz. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
  13. ^ Patricia M. Pelley Postcolonial Vietnam: New Histories of the National Past 2002 p. 196 "In September 1930, the first Vietnamese soviet (in the village of vi:Võ Liệt) was formed, and soon it encompassed the three provinces of Nghệ An, Hà Tĩnh, and Quảng Ngãi. By this point, a number of Vietnamese students were already attending ..."
  14. ^ Nguyen Công LuanNationalist in the Viet Nam Wars: Memoirs of a Victim Turned Soldier 2011 "... "Soviet" style that led farmers from several villages in Nghệ An and Hà Tĩnh provinces to stage mass protests for months after May 1930"
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