Citadel of Cổ Loa
Cổ Loa Citadel is a fortified settlement and archaeological site, roughly 17 kilometers north of Hanoi, in the upper plain north of the Red River. Relics of the Bronze Age Phùng Nguyên culture and Đông Sơn culture have been found in Cổ Loa.Photo: ZiYouXunLu, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Locality with 16,500 residents
- Description: Archaeological site in Vietnam
- Also known as: “Cổ Lóa” and “Co Loa Citadel”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Co Loa.
Co Loa
Photo: ZiYouXunLu, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cổ Loa is a modern day town and ancient former capital of Northern Vietnam, slightly Northeast of the current capital of Hanoi.
Citadel of Cổ Loa
- Category: archaeological site
- Location: Đông Anh District, Hanoi, Northern Vietnam, Vietnam, Southeast Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Yue Chinese—“Citadel of Cổ Loa” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “古螺”
- Chinese: “古螺城”
- French: “citadelle de Cổ Loa”
- French: “Citadelle de Cổ Loa”
- French: “Co Loa”
- Indonesian: “Benteng Cổ Loa”
- Japanese: “古螺”
- Korean: “꼬 로아”
- Korean: “꼬로아”
- Korean: “꼬로아성”
- Polish: “Cổ Loa”
- Portuguese: “Cidadela de Co Loa”
- Slovenian: “Citadela Cổ Loa”
- Swedish: “Co Loa”
- Thai: “ป้อมปราการโก๋ลวา”
- Vietnamese: “Cổ Loa”
- Vietnamese: “Thành Cổ Loa”
- Yue Chinese: “古螺城”
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