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The provinces of Vietnam are subdivided into second-level administrative units, namely districts ( Vietnamese: huyện ), provincial cities ( thành phố trực thuộc tỉnh ), and district-level towns ( thị xã ). The centrally-controlled municipalities (the other first-level division, in addition to provinces) are subdivided into rural districts ( huyện ), district-level towns, and ...
Áo dài ( English: / ˈaʊˈdaɪ, ˈɔːˈdaɪ, ˈaʊˈzaɪ /; Vietnamese: [ʔaːw˧˦ zaːj˨˩] ( North), [ʔaːw˦˥ jaːj˨˩] ( South)) [1] [2] is a modernized Vietnamese national garment consisting of a long split tunic worn over silk trousers. It can serve as formalwear for both men and women. Áo translates as shirt [3] and dài means "long". [4] The term can also be used to describe ...
Vietnamese (Vietnamese: tiếng Việt) is an Austroasiatic language spoken primarily in Vietnam where it is the national and official language. Vietnamese is spoken natively by around 85 million people, [1] several times as many as the rest of the Austroasiatic family combined. [5] It is the native language of the Vietnamese (Kinh) people, as well as a second or first language for other ...
The name Tết is a shortening of Tết Nguyên Đán, literally written as tết (meaning festivals; only used in festival names) and nguyên đán which means the first day of the year. Both words come from Sino-Vietnamese respectively, 節 (SV: tiết) and 元旦. The word for festival is usually lễ hội, a Sino-Vietnamese word, 禮會.
Đại Việt ( 大越, IPA: [ɗâjˀ vìət]; literally Great Việt ), was a Vietnamese monarchy in eastern Mainland Southeast Asia from the 10th century AD to the early 19th century, centered around the region of present-day Hanoi, Northern Vietnam. Its early name, Đại Cồ Việt, [note 1] was established in 968 by Vietnamese ruler Đinh Bộ Lĩnh after he ended the Anarchy of the 12 ...
The Vietnamese alphabet ( Vietnamese: chữ Quốc ngữ, lit. 'Characters/script of the national language', IPA: [t͡ɕɨ˦ˀ˥ kuək̚˧˦ ŋɨ˦ˀ˥]) is the modern writing script for Vietnamese. It uses the Latin script based on Romance languages [6] originally developed by Portuguese missionary Francisco de Pina (1585–1625). [1]
Naming Bình Ngô đại cáo literally means Great Proclamation upon the Pacification of the Wu. Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming dynasty, was a native of Hao Prefecture -which is now in Fengyang, Anhui, China and lies in the territory of the former state of (Eastern) Wu ( [東]吳; Sino-Vietnamese: [Đông] Ngô) - and, in 1356, he himself took the title Duke of Wu (吳國公; SV: Ngô ...
The National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam ( N.A.; Vietnamese: Quốc hội nước Cộng hoà xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt Nam) [a] is the unicameral parliament and the highest body of state power of Vietnam. The National Assembly is the only branch of government in Vietnam and, in accordance with the principle of unified power, all state organs are subservient to it.