Hưng Yên (listen) is a city in Vietnam. It is the provincial capital of Hưng Yên Province and is a third-graded city according to Vietnam's city classification table.
Hưng Yên
Thành phố Hưng Yên | |
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City (Class-3) | |
Hưng Yên City | |
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Nickname: Phố Hiến | |
![]() ![]() Hưng Yên Location of in Vietnam | |
Coordinates: 20°39′N 106°04′E | |
Country | ![]() |
Province | Hưng Yên |
Government | |
• Chairman of People's Committee | Đỗ Xuân Tuyên |
Area | |
• Total | 73.4207 km2 (28.3479 sq mi) |
Population (2013) | |
• Total | 147,275 |
• Density | 2,005.9/km2 (5,195/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+7 (Indochina Time) |
Climate | Cwa |
Hưng Yên administers 12 administrative divisions:
The city is well known in the world (especially with historians) with Phố Hiến (an ancient port-city located in the area). There are still a lot of ancient Asian temples, pagodas and other religious buildings here.
Nhãn lồng (caged longan - a kind of fruit) is one of Hưng Yên's specialities.
Climate data for Hưng Yên | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Record high °C (°F) | 32.0 (89.6) |
32.6 (90.7) |
37.0 (98.6) |
37.4 (99.3) |
38.5 (101.3) |
40.0 (104.0) |
38.4 (101.1) |
37.5 (99.5) |
35.2 (95.4) |
34.0 (93.2) |
34.5 (94.1) |
30.5 (86.9) |
40.0 (104.0) |
Average high °C (°F) | 19.5 (67.1) |
19.7 (67.5) |
22.3 (72.1) |
26.7 (80.1) |
30.9 (87.6) |
32.4 (90.3) |
32.7 (90.9) |
31.7 (89.1) |
30.5 (86.9) |
28.3 (82.9) |
25.2 (77.4) |
21.7 (71.1) |
26.8 (80.2) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | 16.2 (61.2) |
16.9 (62.4) |
19.6 (67.3) |
23.5 (74.3) |
27.0 (80.6) |
28.6 (83.5) |
29.0 (84.2) |
28.4 (83.1) |
27.1 (80.8) |
24.5 (76.1) |
21.1 (70.0) |
17.8 (64.0) |
23.3 (73.9) |
Average low °C (°F) | 14.0 (57.2) |
15.0 (59.0) |
17.8 (64.0) |
21.4 (70.5) |
24.2 (75.6) |
25.8 (78.4) |
26.3 (79.3) |
25.8 (78.4) |
24.6 (76.3) |
21.8 (71.2) |
18.4 (65.1) |
15.1 (59.2) |
20.8 (69.4) |
Record low °C (°F) | 4.9 (40.8) |
5.3 (41.5) |
6.6 (43.9) |
12.2 (54.0) |
16.5 (61.7) |
19.4 (66.9) |
20.6 (69.1) |
21.8 (71.2) |
16.5 (61.7) |
12.5 (54.5) |
8.4 (47.1) |
4.8 (40.6) |
4.8 (40.6) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 26 (1.0) |
25 (1.0) |
48 (1.9) |
92 (3.6) |
172 (6.8) |
229 (9.0) |
219 (8.6) |
286 (11.3) |
261 (10.3) |
187 (7.4) |
75 (3.0) |
24 (0.9) |
1,644 (64.7) |
Average precipitation days | 9.1 | 12.8 | 16.6 | 13.8 | 13.1 | 14.2 | 13.1 | 15.5 | 13.7 | 11.2 | 7.3 | 5.5 | 146.0 |
Average relative humidity (%) | 85.2 | 87.6 | 90.1 | 89.8 | 86.2 | 84.4 | 84.0 | 87.1 | 86.9 | 84.8 | 82.6 | 82.4 | 85.9 |
Mean monthly sunshine hours | 75 | 42 | 49 | 93 | 187 | 178 | 205 | 179 | 179 | 173 | 139 | 127 | 1,625 |
Source: Vietnam Institute for Building Science and Technology[1] |
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District-level towns |
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Districts of the Red River Delta | ||
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Hanoi city |
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Haiphong city | ||
Bắc Ninh province | ||
Hà Nam province | ||
Hải Dương province |
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Hưng Yên province | ||
Nam Định province | ||
Ninh Bình province | ||
Thái Bình province | ||
Vĩnh Phúc province |
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※ denotes provincial seat. |