Giao Thủy district
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Giao Thủy district
Huyện Giao Thủy | |
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Country | Vietnam |
Region | Red River Delta |
Province | Nam Định |
Central agency | Ngô Đồng township |
Area | |
• Total | 64 sq mi (166 km2) |
Population (2003) | |
• Total | 207,273 |
• Density | 2,120/sq mi (817/km2) |
Time zone | UTC+7 (Indochina Time) |
Website | Giaothuy.Namdinh.gov.vn |
Giao Thủy is a rural district of Nam Định province in the Red River Delta region of Vietnam.
History
In the early 1980s, in the context of social changes in economic thinking. Therefore, Giao Thủy is the place to develop and test the short - term industrial crops while ensuring clean environment.
Due to the continuous accretion of the Red River, so far the local governments of the two provinces Nam Định and Thái Bình still disputes a long muddy which were between the two districts Tiền Hải and Giao Thủy. That area is called as "Souvet Bund" (bãi Sú-Vẹt) by the folks.
Culture
The customs of the people of Giao Thủy district in general have more marine properties than the rest of Nam Định province. There are many ideas that this is the first address in the Empire of Annam that has received the Jesuit, which through a pastor or a ship named Ignatio (I-nê-khu from the middle-ages Annamese chronicles).
Geography
As of 2003 the district had a population of 207,273.[1] The district covers an area of 166 km². The district capital lies at Ngô Đồng[1] and other towns and villages include Giao Xuân, Giao Phong.
See also
Notes and references
- ^ a b "Districts of Vietnam". Statoids. Retrieved March 20, 2009.
Further reading
Bibliography
- Khiếu Năng Tĩnh, Tân biên Nam Định tỉnh địa dư chí lược, 1880.
- Nguyễn On Ngọc, Nam Định tỉnh địa dư chí, 1893.
- George Coedes. The Making of South East Asia, 2nd ed. University of California Press, 1983.
- Trần Ngọc Thêm. Cơ sở văn hóa Việt Nam (The Foundation of Vietnamese Culture), 504 pages. Publishing by Nhà xuất bản Đại học Tổng hợp TPHCM. Saigon, Vietnam, 1995.
- Li Tana (2011). Jiaozhi (Giao Chỉ) in the Han period Tongking Gulf. In Cooke, Nola ; Li Tana ; Anderson, James A. (eds.). The Tongking Gulf Through History. University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 39–44. ISBN 9780812205022.
- Li Tana, Towards an environmental history of the eastern Red River Delta, Vietnam, c.900–1400, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 2014.
- Samuel Baron, Christoforo Borri, Olga Dror, Keith W. Taylor (2018). Views of Seventeenth-Century Vietnam : Christoforo Borri on Cochinchina and Samuel Baron on Tonkin. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-1-501-72090-1.
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