Vĩnh Phúc province

Vĩnh Phúc is a province in the Red River Delta of northern Vietnam.

Vĩnh Phúc
Province
Post Office Vĩnh Phúc  • Zen Monastery Trúc Lâm Tây Thiên  • Tam Đảo Mountain  • Lake Đại Lải  • Tam Đảo National Park  • Buffalo fighting festival  • Bình Sơn Pagoda
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Nickname:  Fortune
Location of Vĩnh Phúc within Vietnam
Coordinates: 21°18′N 105°36′E
Country	Vietnam
Region	Red River Delta
Capital	Vĩnh Yên
Government
• People's Council Chair	Trịnh Đình Dũng
• People's Committee Chair	Nguyễn Ngọc Phi
Area [1]
• Total	1,236.00 km2 (477.22 sq mi)
Population  (2023)
• Total	1,511,300
• Density	1,200/km2 (3,200/sq mi)
Demographics
• Ethnicities	Vietnamese, Sán Dìu, Sán Chay, Tày
GDP[2]
• Total	VND 94.498 trillion US$ 4.104 billion
Time zone	UTC+7 (ICT)
Area codes	211
ISO 3166 code	VN-70
HDI (2020)	0.778[3] (8th)
Website	www.vinhphuc.gov.vn

Administrative divisions

Vĩnh Phúc is subdivided into 8 district-level sub-divisions:

• 7 districts:

• • Sông Lô
  • Bình Xuyên
  • Lập Thạch
  • Tam Đảo
  • Tam Dương
  • Vĩnh Tường
  • Yên Lạc

• 2 provincial city:
  • Vĩnh Yên (capital)
  • Phúc Yên

They are further subdivided into 12 commune-level towns (or townlets), 112 communes, and 13 wards.

Specialty

Tay Dinh banh gio, also known as sun cake, is a famous Vinh Phuc specialty for a long time. This is an indispensable dish in traditional Tet holidays and some other holidays of the people of Tay Dinh - Vinh Phuc like banh chung. With long-standing accumulated experience, accompanied by the creativity of Tay Dinh villagers, they have created a specialty with bold flavors and unique features of Tay Dinh banh gio. The cake has a beautiful golden brown color. When eating, we can feel the aroma of rice and the chewiness of the cake, combined with sugar or molasses to create a characteristic sweet and cool taste.^[4]

Events

Closure of Sơn Lôi Commune during the COVID-19 pandemic

See also: COVID-19 pandemic in Vietnam

On February 13, 2020, Vĩnh Phúc province has decided to lock down Sơn Lôi Commune - a rural community of over 10,600 in Bình Xuyên District - for fourteen days as an effort to contain the disease caused by the Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV 2) virus. Seven of the total of sixteen people who contracted the virus in Vietnam are residents of Sơn Lôi Commune - including a three-month-old girl. Authorities have established mobile shops and provided food and face masks to the community.^[5]

References

1. Biểu số 4.2: Hiện trạng sử dụng đất vùng Đồng Bằng Sông Hồng năm 2022 [Table 4.2: Current land use status in the Red River Delta 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. "Tình hình kinh tế - xã hội năm 2018 Vĩnh Phúc". Cục Thống kê tỉnh Vĩnh Phúc. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
3. "Human Development Index by province(*) by Cities, provincies and Year". General Statistics Office of Vietnam. Retrieved September 28, 2024.
4. "Bánh Gio Tây Đình – Đặc sản nổi tiếng của Vĩnh Phúc - Trung tâm Xúc tiến Du lịch Vĩnh Phúc – Sở VHTTDL Vĩnh Phúc". dulichvinhphuc.gov.vn (in Vietnamese). 2023-10-17. Retrieved 2024-01-13.
5. Dinh, Tat. "Vietnam province isolates commune with seven coronavirus patients". VnExpress International.

External links

• Official site of Vĩnh Phúc Government