Cát Hải District
Cát Hải is a rural district (huyện) of Hai Phong, the third largest city of Vietnam. It includes the old Cát Bà town since 1977.
As of 2018 the district had a population of 43,187. The districts covers an area of 295 km (114 sq mi). The district capital lies at Cát Bà .
The island is subject to major land developments. Vinfast is building an automobile factory on the southern half of the island, and Sun Group is developing a holiday resort on the northern half. A 5.44 km long bridge - the longest sea crossing in Vietnam - connects the island to Hai Phong.
References
- ^ Leontine E. Visser - Challenging Coasts Page 216 2004 "From an administrative point of view, Cat Hai Island belongs to Cat Hai District, which consists of hundreds of islands ... In a spatial as well as an economic sense, the district is dominated by Cat Hai Island and neighbouring Cat Ba Island to ."
- ^ "Districts of Vietnam". Retrieved January 19, 2017.
- ^ "GM forms partnership with Vietnam's VinFast". Financial Times. Archived from the original on 2022-12-24.
External links
Media related to Cat Hai District at Wikimedia Commons