SE Asia
Vietnam
Northern Vietnam

Hanoi

Hanoi, the capital of and its second-largest city, is a fascinating blend of East and West, with Chinese influence from centuries of dominance, and French je ne sais quoi from its colonial past.
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  • Type: City with 8,690,000 residents
  • Description: capital of Vietnam
  • Also known as: “Đại La”, “Dong Do”, “Ha Noi”, “Hà Nội”, “Keicho”, “Thang Long”, “Thành phố Hà Nội”, and “Tonkin”
Photo: Kallerna, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Kallerna, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Imperial Citadel of Thăng Long and Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum.

Photo: Sky 269, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a complex of historic buildings associated with the history of Vietnam located in the centre of Hanoi, . Its construction began in 1010 and was completed in early 1011 under the reign of Emperor Lý Thái Tổ of the Lý dynasty.

Photo: Gregor Dodson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The President is a mausoleum which serves as the resting place of Vietnamese revolutionary leader and President Ho Chi Minh in Hanoi, .

Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Hỏa Lò Prison was a prison in Hanoi originally used by the French colonists in Indochina for political prisoners, and later by North Vietnam for U.S. prisoners of war during the Vietnam War.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bạch Mai and Hồng Hà.

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is a ward of Hanoi the capital city in the of .

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is a ward of Hà Nội the capital city in the of .

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Photo: The Hanoian, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a ward of Hanoi, the capital city in the of .

Hanoi

Latitude
21.0283° or 21° 1′ 42″ north
Longitude
105.854° or 105° 51′ 15″ east
Population
8,690,000
Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)
IATA airport code
HAN
United Nations Location Code
VN HAN
Open location code
7PH72VH3+8J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 74132064
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1581130
Wiki­data ID
Q1858
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Hanoi” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Hanoi”
  • Afrikaans: “Hanoi”
  • Albanian: “Hanoi”
  • Amharic: “ሀኖይ”
  • Arabic: “هانوي”
  • Aragonese: “Hanoi”
  • Armenian: “Հանոյ”
  • Arpitan: “Hanoi”
  • Asturian: “H.anoi”
  • Asturian: “Hà Nội”
  • Asturian: “Hanoi”
  • Asturian: “Hanói”
  • Asturian: “Ḥanoi”
  • Asturian: “Ḥanói”
  • Azerbaijani: “Hanoy”
  • Balinese: “Hanoi”
  • Bashkir: “Ханой”
  • Basque: “Hanoi”
  • Bavarian: “Hanoi”
  • Belarusian: “Ханой”
  • Bengali: “হ্যানয়”
  • Bosnian: “Hanoi”
  • Breton: “Ha Noi”
  • Bulgarian: “Ха Ной”
  • Bulgarian: “Ханои”
  • Bulgarian: “Ханой”
  • Burmese: “ဟနွိုင်းမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Hanoi”
  • Cebuano: “Hanoi”
  • Central Bikol: “Hanoi”
  • Central Kurdish: “ھانۆی”
  • Chechen: “Ханой”
  • Chinese: “Hà Nội Chhī”
  • Chinese: “内”
  • Chinese: “城庯河內”
  • Chinese: “昇龍”
  • Chinese: “河內”
  • Chinese: “河內城庯”
  • Chinese: “河內市”
  • Chinese: “河内”
  • Chinese: “河内市”
  • Chuvash: “Ханой”
  • Corsican: “Hanoi”
  • Croatian: “Hanoi”
  • Czech: “Hanoj”
  • Danish: “Hanoi”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Hanoi”
  • Dutch: “Hanoi”
  • Eastern Mari: “Ханой”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هانوى”
  • Esperanto: “Hanojo”
  • Estonian: “Hanoi”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Hanoi”
  • Fijian: “Hanoi”
  • Finnish: “Hanoi”
  • French: “Hà Nội”
  • French: “Hanoi”
  • French: “Hanoï”
  • Galician: “Hanoi”
  • Gan Chinese: “河內市”
  • Georgian: “ჰანოი”
  • German: “Hanoi”
  • Greek: “Ανόι”
  • Greek: “Χανόι”
  • Gujarati: “હનોઈ”
  • Haitian: “Anòy”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Hà Nội”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Hò-nui-sṳ”
  • Hausa: “Hanoi”
  • Hawaiian: “Hanoi”
  • Hebrew: “האנוי”
  • Hindi: “हनोई”
  • Hungarian: “Hà Nội”
  • Hungarian: “Hanoi”
  • Icelandic: “Hanoí”
  • Ido: “Hanoi”
  • Iloko: “Hanoi”
  • Inari Sami: “Hanoi”
  • Indonesian: “Hanoi”
  • Interlingua: “Hanoi”
  • Interlingue: “Hanoi”
  • Irish: “Ha Noi”
  • Irish: “Hanáí”
  • Irish: “Hanoi”
  • Italian: “Hanoi”
  • Italian: “Hanoï”
  • Japanese: “ハノイ”
  • Japanese: “ハノイ市”
  • Japanese: “城庯河内”
  • Japanese: “河内市”
  • Javanese: “Hanoi”
  • Kalaallisut: “Hanoi”
  • Kannada: “ಹನೊಯ್”
  • Kannada: “ಹಾನೊಯ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Xanoy”
  • Kashubian: “Hà Nội”
  • Kazakh: “Ханой”
  • Khmer: “ទីក្រុងហានូយ”
  • Khmer: “ហាណូយ”
  • Kikuyu: “Hanoi”
  • Kildin Sami: “Ханой”
  • Kirghiz: “Ханой”
  • Korean: “하노이”
  • Kurdish: “Hanoi”
  • Ladino: “Hanói”
  • Lao: “ຮ່າໂນ້ຍ”
  • Latin: “Hanoi”
  • Latvian: “Hanoja”
  • Ligurian: “Hanoi”
  • Limburgan: “Hanoi”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Hanoi”
  • Literary Chinese: “河內城庯”
  • Lithuanian: “Hanojus”
  • Livvi: “Hanoi”
  • Lombard: “Hanoi”
  • Low German: “Hà Nội”
  • Low German: “Hanoi”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Hanoi”
  • Lule Sami: “Hanoi”
  • Luxembourgish: “Hanoi”
  • Macedonian: “Ханој”
  • Malagasy: “Hanoi”
  • Malay: “Dong Do”
  • Malay: “Hanoi”
  • Malay: “Thang Long”
  • Malay: “Tonkin”
  • Malay: “هانوي”
  • Malayalam: “ഹാനോയ്”
  • Maltese: “Hanoi”
  • Maltese: “Thang Long”
  • Maori: “Hanoi”
  • Marathi: “हनोई”
  • Mazanderani: “هانوی”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Hà Nội”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Ò̤-nô̤i”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hà Nội”
  • Minangkabau: “Hanoi”
  • Mingrelian: “ჰანოი”
  • Mirandese: “Ḥanoi”
  • Moksha: “Ханой”
  • Mongolian: “Ханой хот”
  • Mongolian: “Ханой”
  • Mongolian: “ᠾᠠᠨᠣᠢ ᠬᠣᠲᠠ”
  • Mongolian: “ᠾᠠᠨᠣᠢ”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “هانوي”
  • Nauru: “Hanoi”
  • Navajo: “Tółánítah”
  • Nepali: “हनोइ”
  • Northern Frisian: “Hanoi”
  • Northern Luri: “هانوی”
  • Northern Sami: “Hanoi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hanoi”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hanoi”
  • Norwegian: “Hanoi”
  • Novial: “Hanoi”
  • Nyanja: “Hanoi”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Hanòi”
  • Oriya: “ହାନୋଇ”
  • Ossetian: “Ханой”
  • Pampanga: “Hanoi”
  • Panjabi: “ਹਨੋਈ”
  • Papiamento: “Hanoi”
  • Persian: “هانوی”
  • Picard: “Hanoï”
  • Piemontese: “Hanoi”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Hanoi”
  • Pite Sami: “Hanoi”
  • Polish: “Hà Nội”
  • Polish: “Hanoi”
  • Portuguese: “Hanoi”
  • Portuguese: “Hanói”
  • Pushto: “هانوی”
  • Quechua: “Ha Nui”
  • Romanian: “Hanoi”
  • Russia Buriat: “Ханой”
  • Russian: “Ханой”
  • Sakizaya: “He-ney-se”
  • Sanskrit: “हनोई”
  • Santali: “ᱦᱟᱱᱚᱭ”
  • Sardinian: “Hanoi”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Hanoi”
  • Scots: “Hanoi”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Hanoi”
  • Serbian: “Ханој”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hanoi”
  • Shona: “Hanoi”
  • Sicilian: “Hanoi”
  • Silesian: “Hanoi”
  • Sindhi: “هنوئي”
  • Sinhala: “හැනොයි”
  • Sinhala: “හැනෝයි”
  • Skolt Sami: “Hanoi”
  • Slovak: “Hanoj”
  • Slovenian: “Hanoj”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هانوی”
  • Southern Sami: “Hanoi”
  • Spanish: “Hanoi”
  • Spanish: “Hanói”
  • Swahili: “Hanoi”
  • Swedish: “Hanoi”
  • Swiss German: “Hanoi”
  • Tagalog: “Hanoi”
  • Tajik: “Ханой”
  • Tajik: “Ҳаной”
  • Talysh: “Hanoj”
  • Talysh: “Hanoy”
  • Tamil: “ஹனோய்”
  • Tatar: “Hanoy”
  • Telugu: “హనోయ్”
  • Thai: “ฮานอย”
  • Tibetan: “ཧེ་ནོ།”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Hanoi”
  • Tumbuka: “Hanoi”
  • Turkish: “Hanoi”
  • Turkmen: “Hanoýi”
  • Twi: “Hanɔi”
  • Udmurt: “Ханой”
  • Uighur: “خانوي”
  • Ukrainian: “Ханой”
  • Ume Sami: “Hanoi”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Hanoi”
  • Urdu: “ہنوئی”
  • Uzbek: “Xanoy”
  • Venda: “Hanoi”
  • Venetian: “Hanoi”
  • Veps: “Hanoi”
  • Vietnamese: “Bắc Thành”
  • Vietnamese: “Đại La”
  • Vietnamese: “Đông Đô”
  • Vietnamese: “Hà Nội”
  • Vietnamese: “Hà Thành”
  • Vietnamese: “Thăng Long”
  • Volapük: “Hà Nội”
  • Võro: “Hanoi”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hanoi”
  • Welsh: “Hanoi”
  • Western Frisian: “Hanoi”
  • Western Panjabi: “ہنوئی”
  • Wu Chinese: “河內市”
  • Yakut: “Ханой”
  • Yiddish: “האנוי”
  • Yoruba: “Hanoi”
  • Yue Chinese: “昇龍”
  • Yue Chinese: “河內”
  • Yue Chinese: “河內市”
  • Zeeuws: “Hanoi”
  • Zulu: “i-Hanoi”
  • “Hanoi”

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