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Yên Bái

provincial city in Yên Bái province, Vietnam

Key facts

Country: Vietnam
Province: Yên Bái
Subdivision: 9 wards and 6 rural communes
Total: 108.15 km (41.76 sq mi)
Density: 930.48/km (2,409.9/sq mi)
Climate: Cwa
Website: thanhphoyenbai .yenbai .gov .vn

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Encyclopedic overview

Yên Bái (listen) was a former city in Vietnam. It was located in the province of Yen Bai, in the north-east region of Vietnam. The city bordered the former districts of Yên Bình District and Trấn Yên District. The city was a settlement along the banks of the Red River, approximately 183 km northwest of Hanoi. It was one of the important trading hubs between the highlands and the lowlands of Northern Vietnam.

History

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Yên Bái” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.