Northeast (Vietnam)

The Northeast (Đông Bắc) is the region to the north of the Red River Delta in Vietnam. It is called Northeast to distinguish it from the Northwest, but it's actually in the north and northeast of Hanoi, wider than Việt Bắc. The Northeast is one of three sub-regions of Northern Vietnam (the other two sub-regions are the Northwest and the Red River Delta). Sometimes the Northeast includes the Red River Delta.

Cao Bằng province in Đông Bắc
Location of the Đông Bắc (Northeast) region in Vietnam

Geography

Location

The Northeast region encompasses the provinces northeast of Hanoi, near the border with China. It has a population of about ten million.

Geographics

Geographical boundaries to the west of the Northeast are not clear, mainly due to the lack of consensus about the geography of Vietnam on the boundary between the Northwest and Northeast to be the Red River or the Hoàng Liên Sơn. The Northeast is limited to the north and east by the Vietnam-China border, while the Southeast overlooks the Gulf of Tonkin. The southern limit is composed of the Tam Đảo mountain range and the Red River Delta.

It is also mountainous in the midlands, the mountainous include massifs, and limestone mountains.

The western side, is limited by the Red River valley and the Chảy River's source, above, is composed of granite, slate and limestone plateau. In essence, this is the edge of the Yunnan Plateau. The high mountains of the Northeast are concentrated here, as Tây Côn Lĩnh, Kiêu Liêu Ti.

The northern part junction with Vietnam-China border are the plateau (highland) turns from west to east are: Bắc Hà, Quản Bạ, Đồng Văn. Two first plateau has an average elevation of 1000-1200m. Đồng Văn Plateau is 1600m. Rivers and streams flowing through the plateau created long and deep canyons. There are also some small plains, like Thất Khê, Lạng Sơn, Lộc Bình, and Cao Bằng.

To the east, from the Gâm River's middle into the sea, which is lower than many mountains arc turned eastward turn from east to west is the Gâm River's anticline, Ngân Sơn-Yên Lạc Bow, Bắc Sơn Massif, Đông Triều Mountain range. Mountains rising above the sea form the famous scenery of Hạ Long. The arc of these mountains are mostly covered tail at Tam Đảo.

Southwest, from Phú Thọ, southern Tuyên Quang, southern Yên Bái and Thái Nguyên, lower toward the plain. It is called as the "midlands". The height of this section is about 100–150 m.

The Northeast has many rivers flow through, including the major river of the Red, Chảy, Lô, Gâm (the Red rivers system), Cầu, Thương, Lục Nam (in Thái Bình river system), Bằng, Bắc Giang, Kỳ Cùng...

Northeast's sea region has many large and small islands, nearly 2/3 the number of Vietnam's sea islands (including the Hoàng Sa and Trường Sa).

History

Provinces
Statistics of Northeast Vietnam (Đông Bắc)
Province-
Level
Division		 Capital Population
(2019)		 Area
(in km2)
Bắc Giang Bắc Giang 1,715,000 3,827.4
Bắc Kạn Bắc Kạn 319,000 4,868.4
Cao Bằng Cao Bằng 529,800 6,724.6
Hà Giang Hà Giang 891,077 7,945.8
Lạng Sơn Lạng Sơn 759,000 8,331.2
Phú Thọ Việt Trì 1,620,264 3,528.4
Quảng Ninh Hạ Long 1,414,633 6,099.0
Thái Nguyên Thái Nguyên 1,363,767 3,546.6
Tuyên Quang Tuyên Quang 813,200 5,870.4
  • The two provinces Lào Cai and Yên Bái are usually seen as part of the Northwest region.
  • Vịnh Hạ Long
  • Mẫu Sơn mountains
  • Rice fields in Cao Bằng
  • Ba Bể Lake in Bắc Kạn
  • Church at Sa Pa
gollark: I wonder how hard/expensive it'd be to run your own channel on the satellite system if there are THAT many.
gollark: We have exciting TV like "BBC Parliament".
gollark: Analog TV got shut down here ages ago.
gollark: So I guess if you consider license costs our terrestrial TV is *not* free and costs a bit more than Netflix and stuff. Oops.
gollark: - it funds the BBC, but you have to pay it if you watch *any* live TV, or watch BBC content online- it's per property, not per person, so if you have a license, and go somewhere without a license, and watch TV on some of your stuff, you are breaking the law (unless your thing is running entirely on battery power and not mains-connected?)- it costs about twice as much as online subscription service things- there are still black and white licenses which cost a third of the priceBut the enforcement of it is even weirder than that:- there are "TV detector vans". The BBC refuses to explain how they actually work in much detail. With modern TVs I don't think this is actually possible, and they probably can't detect iPlayer use, unless you're stupid enough to sign up with your postcode (they started requiring accounts some years ago).- enforcement is apparently done by some organization with almost no actual legal power (they can visit you and complain, but not *do* anything without a search warrant, which is hard to get)- so they make up for it by sending threatening and misleading letters to try and get people to pay money

See also

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