 | You can helpexpand this article with text translated fromthe corresponding article in Vietnamese.Click [show] for important translation instructions.
|
Quy Nhon Quy Nhơn | |
|---|---|
| Quy Nhon City Thành phố Quy Nhơn | |
 Quy Nhon | |
 Seal | |
 | |
  Quy Nhon Location of in Vietnam | |
| Coordinates:13°46′N109°14′E / 13.767°N 109.233°E /13.767; 109.233 | |
| Country |  Vietnam |
| Province | Bình Định |
| Established city | 1986 |
| Area | |
• Total | 286 km2 (110 sq mi) |
| Population (2024) | |
• Total | 519.208[1] |
| • Density | 1.885/km2 (4.88/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+7 (Indochina Time) |
| Postal code | 55100–55199 |
| Area codes | 256 |
| License plate | 77 |
| Climate | As |
Quy Nhon (Vietnamese:Quy Nhơn[kʷīɲə̄ːŋ]ⓘ) is a coastal city inBình Định province in centralVietnam. It is composed of 16wards and five communes with a total of 286 km2 (110 sq mi). Quy Nhon is the capital of Bình Định province. As of 2022 its population was 481.110.[1] Historically, the commercial activities of the city focused on agriculture and fishing. In recent years, however, there has been a significant shift towards service industries and tourism. There is also a substantial manufacturing sector.
The origins of human settlement stretch back to the 11th-centuryChampa culture, theTây Sơn dynasty as well as the 18th-centuryseaport of Thị Nại. The city was subject to a Mongol invasion in theBattle of Thị Nại Bay (1283) during theMongol invasions of Vietnam. During theMing treasure voyages of the 15th century, the Chinese fleet led by AdmiralZheng He would always make port at Quy Nhon in Champa as their first destination after leaving China.[2] During the 1620s the town was host to Portuguese Jesuits who called the place Pulo Cambi.
The town of Quy Nhon was officially founded in the late 19th century by EmperorThành Thái. It was also the site of theBombardment of Qui Nhơn in 1861, and more recently, it had a large American and Korean military presence, especially theCapital Mechanized Infantry Division of theRepublic of Korea Army during theVietnam War.[3]
Today the city is recognized as a first class city with a geo-economic priority and an urbanized infrastructure. The government describes it as one of the three commercial and tourism centres of the central southern coastal region (withDa Nang andNha Trang).
Quy Nhon has a varied topography, being extremely diversified with mountains and forests, hills, fields, salt marshes, plains, lagoons, lakes, rivers, shorelines, peninsulas and islands. Its coastline is 42 kilometres or 26 miles long with sandy beaches, abundant seafood resources and other natural products of economic value.Hà Thanh River flows through city.
The city has sixteen wards: Trần Hưng Đạo, Lê Lợi, Lê Hồng Phong, Trần Phú, Lý Thường Kiệt, Nguyễn Văn Cừ, Đống Đa, Thị Nại, Hải Cảng, Ngô Mây, Ghềnh Ráng, Quang Trung, Nhơn Bình, Nhơn Phú, Bùi Thị Xuân and Trần Quang Diệu. It has five villages: Nhơn Lý, Nhơn Hội, Nhơn Châu, Nhơn Hải and Phước Mỹ (which was spun off from Tuy Phước district and merged into Quy Nhon city in 2006) with a total area of 284.28 square kilometres or 109.76 square miles and a population of about 284,000 people.
Quy Nhon has atropical monsoon climate (Am), very close to being classified as atropical savanna climate (KöppenAs), with year round very warm to hot temperatures and distinct wet and dry seasons. The city is occasionally hit by the tail-end of typhoons hitting further up the coast.[4][5]
| Climate data for Quy Nhon | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 34.6 (94.3) | 37.9 (100.2) | 39.8 (103.6) | 42.1 (107.8) | 41.7 (107.1) | 41.4 (106.5) | 42.1 (107.8) | 40.9 (105.6) | 39.0 (102.2) | 37.3 (99.1) | 34.6 (94.3) | 33.0 (91.4) | 42.1 (107.8) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 26.6 (79.9) | 27.7 (81.9) | 29.3 (84.7) | 31.3 (88.3) | 33.1 (91.6) | 34.2 (93.6) | 34.3 (93.7) | 34.3 (93.7) | 32.8 (91.0) | 30.2 (86.4) | 28.3 (82.9) | 26.7 (80.1) | 30.7 (87.3) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 21.3 (70.3) | 22.6 (72.7) | 24.6 (76.3) | 27.1 (80.8) | 29.2 (84.6) | 30.0 (86.0) | 30.0 (86.0) | 29.9 (85.8) | 28.3 (82.9) | 25.9 (78.6) | 24.1 (75.4) | 22.0 (71.6) | 26.1 (79.0) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 17.2 (63.0) | 18.7 (65.7) | 21.1 (70.0) | 24.0 (75.2) | 26.4 (79.5) | 27.1 (80.8) | 27.0 (80.6) | 27.0 (80.6) | 24.8 (76.6) | 22.6 (72.7) | 20.6 (69.1) | 18.1 (64.6) | 22.6 (72.7) |
| Record low °C (°F) | 11.2 (52.2) | 12.7 (54.9) | 13.8 (56.8) | 18.4 (65.1) | 19.1 (66.4) | 21.7 (71.1) | 20.6 (69.1) | 20.7 (69.3) | 19.5 (67.1) | 15.9 (60.6) | 12.0 (53.6) | 11.5 (52.7) | 11.2 (52.2) |
| Average rainfall mm (inches) | 66.8 (2.63) | 28.2 (1.11) | 33.0 (1.30) | 33.8 (1.33) | 85.2 (3.35) | 62.1 (2.44) | 44.2 (1.74) | 77.2 (3.04) | 230.6 (9.08) | 521.0 (20.51) | 464.3 (18.28) | 205.5 (8.09) | 1,851.8 (72.91) |
| Average rainy days | 13.6 | 6.6 | 5.4 | 4.7 | 8.6 | 7.8 | 7.2 | 9.5 | 15.7 | 21.4 | 21.9 | 19.1 | 141.4 |
| Averagerelative humidity (%) | 80.9 | 81.6 | 82.5 | 82.2 | 79.5 | 73.5 | 71.7 | 70.8 | 77.8 | 82.5 | 83.2 | 81.8 | 79.0 |
| Mean monthlysunshine hours | 154.8 | 187.4 | 237.7 | 261.4 | 273.2 | 248.2 | 249.4 | 235.7 | 199.3 | 163.1 | 123.2 | 111.4 | 2,444.6 |
| Source 1: Vietnam Institute for Building Science and Technology[6] | |||||||||||||
| Source 2: The Yearbook of Indochina (1932-1933)[7] | |||||||||||||
Quy Nhon is served byVietnam Airlines,Bamboo Airways,VietJet Air andPacific Airlines throughPhu Cat Airport, with flights toHanoi andHo Chi Minh City.[8]
Quy Nhơn railway station could be reached by a branch off the main line of theNorth–South railway,[9] but this line was suspended in May 2016. Reunification express trains stop only inDiêu Trì railway station, which is around 10 kilometres or 6 miles west of Quy Nhon.
Quy Nhon is one of the main industrial centres of theSouth Central Coast, behind only Da Nang and Nha Trang.[10] It is also the major industrial and service centre ofBình Định Province, including its largest industrial facilities atPhu Tai Industrial Park andNhơn Hội Economic Zone. The city's economic activities include industries, export-imports, seaport services, aquatic product husbandry and tourism. Theeconomic trend, at present, is increasingly service-based at the expense of agriculture, forestry andpisciculture.
Cereals are cultivated on 2548 ha of Quy Nhon's land with an output of 13,021 tons as of 2009, just 2% of the province's total.[11] Other crops included 10,891 tons of vegetables, 2,795 tons of sugar-cane, as well as smaller amounts of coconuts, peanuts and cashew nuts.[11]
Much of the city's industry is concentrated in and around Phu Tai Industrial Park in the west of the city along National Route 1A. Quy Nhon is a major centre of garden furniture manufacturing. It has traditionally been relying on access to wood from Bình Định's forests as well as theCentral Highlands provinces ofGia Lai andKon Tum and even as far asCambodia'sRatanakiri andLaos'Attapeu province. Most of the furniture factories are located in Phu Tai Industrial Park. Several chemical enterprises that supply the furniture andwood processing industry have been set up in the vicinity of the industrial park.[12]
Other industries in Quy Nhon process agricultural and aquatic products, or produce construction materials and paper products.[10]Bidiphar is a pharmaceutical company headquartered in Quy Nhon that is an exception to the city's general focus on basic andwood processing industries.Nhơn Hội Economic Zone is central to the city's and province's industrial development plans. However, as of late 2010 it was still in the early stages of development, with few factories completed.
Quy Nhon has seen only limited foreign investment. As of 2008, thirteen foreign companies employed 1119 people in the city.[11]
Currently the economic structure of Quy Nhon is a shift towards increasing the proportion of service industries, reducing the rate of agriculture, forestry and fisheries in GDP. The shares of agriculture, forestry and fisheries – industrial and construction – services in GDP in 2006 reached 36.7%, 28% and 35.3%, respectively, while in 2005 it was at 38.4%, 26.7% and 34.9%, respectively.
The income per capita in 2018 was US$6,025 per person.
Quy Nhon has two universities:Quy Nhon University andQuang Trung University. As of 2009 they had a total teaching staff of 601 and 23,383 students, 13,704 of whom were female.[11] There were 19,900 primary school students and 28,500 secondary school students.[11]
Quy Nhon is home to multiple domestically famous Vietnamese dishes:
Hà Tĩnh CityQuảng Ngãi City
AttapeuChampasackSaravaneSekong
Yongsan-gu district,Seoul
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in thepublic domain.
Quy Nhon travel guide from Wikivoyage13°46′N109°14′E / 13.767°N 109.233°E /13.767; 109.233
