Hà Tĩnh province

Hà Tĩnh is about 340 km (211 miles) south of Hanoi.

The climate is sub-tropical, with cooler temperatures in winter; Vietnam's highest ever temperature, 43.4 degrees Celsius (110 Fahrenheit), was recorded in the province in 2019.{{cite news |title=To beat the heat, Vietnam rice farmers resort to planting at night |url=https://e.vnexpress.net/news/life/trend/to-beat-the-heat-vietnam-rice-farmers-resort-to-planting-at-night-4121336.html |access-date=7 July 2020 |work=VNExpress International |agency=Reuters |date=26 June 2020}}

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Hà Tĩnh is subdivided into 13 district-level sub-divisions:

• 10 districts:

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• Cẩm Xuyên
• Can Lộc
• Đức Thọ
• Hương Khê
• Hương Sơn
• Kỳ Anh
• Lộc Hà
• Nghi Xuân
• Thạch Hà
• Vũ Quang

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• 2 district-level towns:

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• Hồng Lĩnh
• Kỳ Anh (newly created as of 2015)

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• 1 provincial city:
• Hà Tĩnh (capital)

They are further subdivided into 12 commune-level towns (or townlets), 235 communes, and 15 wards.

Hà Tĩnh has many locations of historical and cultural interest that are popular with tourists. It is home to national figures such as Lê Hữu Trác, Nguyễn Du (the author of the epic poem Kim Vân Kiều), Nguyễn Công Trứ, Phan Đình Phùng, Trần Phú, Ngô Đức Kế, Nguyễn Phan Chánh, Hoàng Ngọc Phách, Xuân Diệu, Huy Cận, Hoàng Xuân Hãn, Nguyễn Khắc Viện, Lê Văn Thiêm, Điềm Phùng Thị and Nguyen Do. Notable scenic areas include La River, Vũ Môn Falls, Vũ Quang Garden, Kẻ Gỗ Lake, Sơn Kim hot springs, Đèo Ngang pass, Hương Tích Pagoda, and beaches in places such as Thiên Cầm, Ðèo Con, Xuân Thành and Chân Tiên. Most of them are along Highways 1A and 8.

Hà Tĩnh has 130 km (82 miles) of Highway 1A stretching from Bến Thủy Bridge (Vinh City) to Đèo Ngang Pass linking Hà Tĩnh and Quảng Bình. The Ho Chi Minh Route is the second most important route of the province. Hà Tĩnh also contains Road 8 which runs from Hồng Lĩnh town to Laos and the Viet-Lao highway from Vũng Áng Harbour (Kỳ Anh District) to Laos. In 2007, a railway link to Laos was proposed from Hà Tĩnh province.

Agriculture, forestry and fishery takes up 35.5 percent of total GDP and the province's GDP accounts for 0.7 percent of Vietnam's GDP. Hà Tĩnh has taken slow steps in economic reforms though better signs in recent times are incentive. Vũng Áng harbour with some plants, factories and a thermal power station is becoming the most active economic hub. Vietnam Steel operates an iron mine in Thạch Khê District,Geological Survey (U.S.), [https://books.google.com/books?id=DGuvgMVYS0wC&dq= Minerals Yearbook: Area Reports: International 2008: Asia and the Pacific], pp. 22-12, 26-9. with reserves of 544 million tonnes of iron, which is one of the largest mines in southeast Asia.{{cite web| url = http://en.vietnamplus.vn/Home/Vung-Ang-economic-zone-grows-into-national-industrial-centre/20137/36939.vnplus| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130723073408/http://en.vietnamplus.vn/Home/Vung-Ang-economic-zone-grows-into-national-industrial-centre/20137/36939.vnplus| archive-date = 2013-07-23| title = Vung Ang economic zone grows into national industrial centre -- Vietnam+ (VietnamPlus)}}

A US$10 billion iron and steel plant was built in Vũng Áng in the 2010s (see Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Corporation). The steel plant is part of an industrial park, which is estimated to cost more than US$20 billion. When finished in 2020, the industrial park will have a port, a 2,100-MW power plant and a steel plant with six blast furnaces.{{cite web |title=Up to 21 dead, doctor says, as anti-China riots spread in Vietnam |website=Reuters |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230608115456/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-vietnam-china-riots-casualties-idUSBREA4E03Y20140515 |archive-date=2023-06-08 |url-status=live |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-vietnam-china-riots-casualties-idUSBREA4E03Y20140515}} In 2016, the Formosa Steel plant released untreated waste water with heavy metals and other toxins into the nearby sea, which caused the 2016 Vietnam marine life disaster.{{cite web|url=https://www.qz.com/718576/a-taiwanese-steel-plant-caused-vietnams-mass-fish-deaths-the-government-says|title=A Taiwanese Steel Plant Caused Vietnam's Mass Fish Deaths the Government Says|author=Steve Mullman|publisher=Quartz|date=30 June 2016|access-date=8 July 2016}}

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In chữ Hán, the province's name is written as {{linktext|河|靜}}, meaning "quiet river". Beginning in 1930 Hà Tĩnh, along with Nghệ An and Quảng Ngãi, was one of the early grounds for the Vietnamese rural Soviet movement and protests.Patricia M. Pelley Postcolonial Vietnam: New Histories of the National Past 2002 Page 196 "In September 1930, the first Vietnamese soviet (in the village of :vi:Võ Liệt) was formed, and soon it encompassed the three provinces of Nghệ An, Hà Tĩnh, and Quảng Ngãi. By this point, a number of Vietnamese students were already attending ..."Nguyen Công LuanNationalist in the Viet Nam Wars: Memoirs of a Victim Turned Soldier 2011 "... "Soviet" style that led farmers from several villages in Nghệ An and Hà Tĩnh provinces to stage mass protests for months after May 1930"

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• [http://www.hatinh.gov.vn/ Hà Tĩnh province People's Committee] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110515092933/http://www.hatinh.gov.vn/ |date=2011-05-15 }}
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20080413151430/http://www.mande.co.uk/htpap/hatinh.htm Poverty alleviation in Hà Tĩnh Province, Vietnam: A public archive of development project documents]

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