Vĩnh Phúc Province

Vĩnh Phúc (Vietnamese: [vǐŋ̟ˀ fǔkp] (listen)) is a province in the Red River Delta of northern Vietnam.

Vĩnh Phúc Province

Tỉnh Vĩnh Phúc
Province
Nickname(s): 
Fortune
Location of Vĩnh Phúc within Vietnam
Coordinates: 21°18′N 105°36′E
Country Vietnam
RegionNortheast
CapitalVĩnh Yên
Government
 • People's Council ChairTrịnh Đình Dũng
 • People's Committee ChairNguyễn Ngọc Phi
Area
 • Total1,371.4 km2 (529.5 sq mi)
Population
 (2019)
 • Total1,230,514
 • Density900/km2 (2,300/sq mi)
Demographics
 • EthnicitiesVietnamese, Sán Dìu, Sán Chay, Tày
Time zoneUTC+7 (ICT)
Area codes211
ISO 3166 codeVN-70
Websitewww.vinhphuc.gov.vn

Administrative divisions

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

  • 7 districts:

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

Etymology

The province's name derives from Sino-Vietnamese. Vĩnh (永) means "everlasting", while Phúc (福) means "fortune". Together, Vĩnh Phúc means "everlasting fortune".

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 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.[1]

Vĩnh Phúc also has the highest number of confirmed nCoV cases in Vietnam, with a number of ten.

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gollark: According to random internet articles per-person spending is twice as large as in basically every other country ever still.
gollark: I think a more plausible explanation is along the lines that there's a lot of indirection - people don't *directly* pay the full very large price - and, due to other things (devaluing of the degrees, making *not* having one a stronger signal of problematicness somehow, and bizarre "prestige" factors), many people can't really just go "hmm, no, I don't want to pay that much" so they go up.
gollark: It says something like 40% don't actually bill students, too...
gollark: It says they cost a lot, *not* the actual fraction of budgets these things cost.

References
  1. Dinh, Tat. "Vietnam province isolates commune with seven coronavirus patients". VnExpress International.


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