Vĩnh Phúc Province
Administrative divisions
Vĩnh Phúc is subdivided into 8 district-level sub-divisions:
- 7 districts:
They are further subdivided into 12 commune-level towns (or townlets), 112 communes, and 13 wards.
Specialty
Tay Dinh banh gio: also known as sun cake, is a famous Vinh Phuc specialty for a long time. This is an indispensable dish in traditional Tet holidays and some other holidays of the people of Tay Dinh - Vinh Phuc like banh chung. With long-standing accumulated experience, accompanied by the creativity of Tay Dinh villagers, they have created a specialty with bold flavors and unique features of Tay Dinh banh gio. The cake has a beautiful golden brown color. When eating, we can feel the aroma of rice and the chewiness of the cake, combined with sugar or molasses to create a characteristic sweet and cool taste.
Events
Closure of Sơn Lôi Commune during the COVID-19 pandemic
On February 13, 2020, Vĩnh Phúc province has decided to lock down Sơn Lôi Commune - a rural community of over 10,600 in Bình Xuyên District - for fourteen days as an effort to contain the disease caused by the Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV 2) virus. Seven of the total of sixteen people contracted the virus in Vietnam are residents of Sơn Lôi Commune - including a three-month-old girl. Authorities have established mobile shops and provided food and face masks to the community.
References
- ^ Biểu số 4.2: Hiện trạng sử dụng đất vùng Đồng Bằng Sông Hồng năm 2022 [Table 4.2: Current land use status in the Red River Delta in 2022] (PDF) (Decision 3048/QĐ-BTNMT) (in Vietnamese). Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (Vietnam). 18 October 2023. – the data in the report are in hectares, rounded to integers
- ^ "Tình hình kinh tế - xã hội năm 2018 Vĩnh Phúc". Cục Thống kê tỉnh Vĩnh Phúc. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
- ^ General Statistics Office of Vietnam (2021). Báo cáo Chỉ số phát triển con người Việt Nam giai đoạn 2016 – 2020 [Vietnam's Human Development Index (2016-2020)] (PDF) (Report). pp. 29–30. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-10-08. Retrieved 2023-03-10.
- ^ "Bánh Gio Tây Đình – Đặc sản nổi tiếng của Vĩnh Phúc - Trung tâm Xúc tiến Du lịch Vĩnh Phúc – Sở VHTTDL Vĩnh Phúc". dulichvinhphuc.gov.vn (in Vietnamese). 2023-10-17. Retrieved 2024-01-13.
- ^ Dinh, Tat. "Vietnam province isolates commune with seven coronavirus patients". VnExpress International.
External links
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