SE Asia
Vietnam
Bắc Ninh Province

Từ Sơn

Từ Sơn is a city of Bắc Ninh Province in the region of Vietnam. As of 2021, Từ Sơn had a population of 202,874, covering an area of 61.08 km2.
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  • Type: City with 193,000 residents
  • Description: provincial city of Bac Ninh, Vietnam
  • Also known as: “Thi Xa Tu Son” and “Tu Son”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ly Bat De Temple.

Buddhist temple
Photo: Truongson78, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Lý Bát Đế Temple or Đô Temple, formal Buddhist name Cổ Pháp Điện, is a temple near of which the central section was built in 1028 on the death of Lý Thái Tổ, and the complex enlarged as seven of his descendant Lý dynasty emperors were also buried at the shrine – Lý Bát Đế means "Eight Lý Emperors." Traditionally, the shrine serves for ancestor worship of the eight emperors.

Từ Sơn

Latitude
21.116° or 21° 6′ 57″ north
Longitude
105.9559° or 105° 57′ 21″ east
Population
193,000
Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)
Open location code
7PH74X84+99
Open­Street­Map ID
node 369493275
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
8340641
Wiki­data ID
Q1924271
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Vietnamese—“Từ Sơn” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “Từ Sơn Chhī-siā”
  • Chinese: “慈山”
  • Chinese: “慈山市”
  • Chinese: “慈山市社”
  • Dutch: “Từ Sơn”
  • French: “Tu Son”
  • French: “Từ Sơn”
  • Italian: “Distretto di Tu Son”
  • Japanese: “ツーソン (ベトナム)”
  • Japanese: “トゥーソン (ベトナム)”
  • Japanese: “トゥーソン”
  • Japanese: “慈山市社”
  • Korean: “뚜선”
  • Korean: “뜨선 시사”
  • Korean: “뜨선”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Từ Sơn Chhī-siā”
  • Persian: “تو سون”
  • Russian: “Тысон”
  • Russian: “Тышон”
  • Slovenian: “Tu Son”
  • Swedish: “Từ Sơn”
  • Urdu: “تو سون”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Từ Sơn”
  • Vietnamese: “Thị Xã Từ Sơn”
  • Vietnamese: “Từ Sơn”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Từ Sơn”. Photo: Binh Giang, Public domain.