Qui Nhơn

Quy Nhon
Quy Nhon
Quy Nhon Location of in Vietnam
Coordinates: 13°46′N 109°14′E / 13.767°N 109.233°E / 13.767; 109.233
Country	Vietnam
Province	Bình Định
Established city	1986
Area
• Total	284 km2 (110 sq mi)
Population (2014)
• Total	537,320
• Density	1,891.9/km2 (4,900/sq mi)

Quy Nhơn ( listen) is a coastal city in Bình Định Province in central Vietnam. It is composed of 16 wards and five communes with a total of 286 km². Quy Nhơn is the capital of Bình Định Province. As of 2009 its population was 280,900.^[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.

History

The town of Quy Nhơn was officially founded in the late 18th century, although its origins stretch back much further to the 11th-century Champa culture, the Tây Sơn Dynasty and the 18th century seaport of Thị Nại. During the 1620s the town was host to Portuguese Jesuits who called the place Pulo Cambi.

The city is renowned as the birthplace of 18th century Vietnamese emperor Nguyễn Huệ^[2] and, more recently, had a large American military presence during the Vietnam War. 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 (with Đà Nẵng and Nha Trang).

Geography

The beachfront at Quy Nhon

Quy Nhơn 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 km long with sandy beaches, abundant seafood resources and other natural products of economic value.

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 of 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 km² and a population of about 284,000 people.

Quốc học Quy Nhơn high school, a gifted school

Transportation

Quy Nhơn is served by Vietnam Airlines and VietJet Air through Phu Cat Airport, with flights to Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.^[3]

Quy Nhơn Railway Station can be reached by a branch off the main line of the North–South Railway,^[4] but this line was suspended at May, 2016. Reunification express trains stop only in Diêu Trì Railway Station, which is around 10 km west of Quy Nhơn.

Climate

Economy

Quy Nhơn is one of the main industrial centres of the South Central Coast, behind only Da Nang and Nha Trang.^[8] It is also the major industrial and service centre of Bình Định Province, including its largest industrial facilities at Phu Tai Industrial Park and Nhon Hoi Economic Zone. The city's economic activities include industries, export-imports, seaport services, aquatic product husbandry and tourism. The economic trend, at present, is increasingly service-based at the expense of agriculture, forestry and pisciculture.

Cereals are cultivated on 2548ha of Quy Nhơn's land with an output of 13,021 tons as of 2009, just 2% of the province's total.^[1] Other crops included 10,891 tons of vegetables, 2795 tons of sugar-cane, as well as smaller amounts of coconuts, peanuts, and cashew nuts.^[1]

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 Binh Dinh's forests as well as the Central Highlands provinces of Gia Lai and Kon Tum and even as far as Cambodia's Ratanakiri and Laos' Attapeu Province. Most of the furniture factories are located in Phu Tai Industrial Park. Several chemical enterprises that supply the furniture and wood processing industry have been set up in the vicinity of the industrial park.^[9]

Other industries in Quy Nhơn process agricultural and aquatic products, or produce construction materials and paper products.^[8] Bidiphar is a pharmaceutical company headquartered in Quy Nhon that is an exception to the city's general focus on basic and wood processing industries. Nhon Hoi 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 Nhơn has seen only limited foreign investment. As of 2008, 13 foreign companies employed 1119 people in the city.^[1]

Currently the economic structure of Quy Nhơn 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% - 35.3% (planned: 35% - 30% - 35% in 2005 : 38.4% - 26.7% - 34.9%).

• Income per capita in 2010 was 1625 USD / person

Education

Quy Nhon has two universities: Quy Nhon University and Quang Trung University. As of 2009 they had a total teaching staff of 601 and 23,383 students, 13,704 of whom were female.^[1] There were 19,900 primary school students and 28,500 secondary school students.^[1]

Notable people

• Xavier Le Pichon (1937–), French geophysicist

References

Notes

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Quy Nhon.

• Qui Nhơn travel guide from Wikivoyage

Coordinates: 13°46′N 109°14′E / 13.767°N 109.233°E / 13.767; 109.233

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Districts of South Central Coast (Nam Trung Bộ), Vietnam
Da Nang	Cẩm Lệ Hải Châu Hòa Vang Hoàng Sa (Paracel Islands, disputed) Liên Chiểu Ngu Hanh Son Sơn Trà Thanh Khê
Quảng Nam Province	Tam Kỳ Hội An Bắc Trà My Duy Xuyên Đại Lộc Điện Bàn Đông Giang Hiệp Đức Nam Giang Nam Trà My Nông Sơn Núi Thành Phú Ninh Phước Sơn Quế Sơn Tây Giang Thăng Bình Tiên Phước
Quảng Ngãi Province	Quảng Ngãi Ba Tơ Bình Sơn Đức Phổ Minh Long Mộ Đức Nghĩa Hành Sơn Hà Sơn Tây Sơn Tịnh Tây Trà Trà Bồng Tư Nghĩa Lý Sơn
Bình Định Province	Qui Nhơn An Lão An Nhơn Hoài Ân Hoài Nhơn Phù Cát Phù Mỹ Tuy Phước Tây Sơn Vân Canh Vĩnh Thạnh
Phú Yên Province	Tuy Hòa Đồng Xuân Sông Cầu Sơn Hòa Phú Hòa Tây Hòa Đông Hòa Sông Hinh
Khánh Hòa Province	Nha Trang Cam Ranh Khánh Sơn Khánh Vĩnh Cam Lâm Diên Khánh Ninh Hòa Trường Sa (Spratly Islands, disputed) Vạn Ninh