Đồng Hới

Dong Hoi Đồng Hới
Nickname:  City of roses
Dong Hoi Location in Vietnam
Coordinates: 17°28′59″N 106°35′59″E
Country	Vietnam
Province	Quảng Bình
Government
• Type	City municipality
Area
• Total	155.71 km^2 (60.12 sq mi)
Population  (2013)
• Total	160,325
• Density	1,027.5/km^2 (2,661/sq mi)
	Registered residents only
Time zone	UTC+7 (Vietnam)
Airport	Đồng Hới Airport (domestic)
Climate	Am
Website	[1]

Fishing boats in Dong Hoi.

Đồng Hới pronunciation  is the capital city of Quảng Bình Province, in the north central coast of Vietnam. The city's area is 155.54 km² (60 square miles). In 2005, 103,005 people lived there.

It is at around 500 km (310 mi) south of Hà Nội (Hanoi), 260 km (160 mi) north of Đà Nẵng (Danang), 1,200 km (750 mi) north of Hồ Chí Minh City (Saigon). It borders Laos on the west, the South China Sea on the east, Hà Tĩnh province on the north, and Quảng Ninh in the south. Dong Hoi Airport is 6 km north of Dong Hoi.

The city was close to the Vietnamese DMZ, and it was in North Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Since it was so close to the DMZ, it was important for the North Vietnamese. For this reason, the city was heavily bombed by the US Air Force. There is a cathedral called the Tam Toa Church that was bombed during the war. Tam Toa is still ruined today so people could remember the bombing of North Vietnam.

Administration

Dong Hoi is subdivided into 16 subdivisions, 10 urban wards (phường) and 6 rural communes (xã).

No.	Name	Vietnamese	Pop.	Area (km2)
1.	Bac Ly	Phường Bắc Lý	13,536	10.19
2.	Bac Nghia	Phường Bắc Nghĩa	6981	7.76
3.	Dong My	Phường Đồng Mỹ	2653	0.58
4.	Dong Phu	Phường Đồng Phú	8016	3.81
5.	Dong Son	Phường Đồng Sơn	8815	19.65
6.	Duc Ninh Dong	Phường Đức Ninh Đông	4726	3.13
7.	Hai Dinh	Phường Hải Đình	3808	8,822
8.	Hai Thanh	Phường Hải Thành	4774	2.45
9.	Nam Ly	Phường Nam Lý	11,579	3.9
10.	Phu Hai	Phường Phú Hải	3440	3.06
11.	Bao Ninh	Xã Bảo Ninh	8538	16.3
12.	Duc Ninh	Xã Đức Ninh	7526	5.21
13.	Loc Ninh	Xã Lộc Ninh	8407	13.4
14.	Nghia Ninh	Xã Nghĩa Ninh	4508	16.22
15.	Quang Phu	Xã Quang Phú	3106	3.23
16.	Thuan Duc	Xã Thuận Đức	3738	45.28