Hà Tĩnh (Vietnamese: [hâː tǐŋ̟ˀ] ) is a city in Vietnam.[1] It is the capital of Hà Tĩnh Province, and lies in the North Central Coast region. It is located on National Highway 1A. The Vietnamese capital Hanoi is located 340 km north of Hà Tĩnh, Vinh is located 50 km to the north, and Huế is located 314 km to the south. Hà Tĩnh is 12.5 km from the East Sea.
Hà Tĩnh city consists of 16 administration units: 10 wards and 6 communes:
There are many tertiary education institutions such as Hà Tĩnh University, Hà Tĩnh College of Medicine, Nguyễn Du Cultural, Sports and Tourism College, Hà Tĩnh Vocational College of Technology and Vietnam-Germany College of Vocation. Some high schools include Hà Tĩnh Senior High School, Phan Đình Phùng High School and Thành Sen (Lotus City) High School.
Hà Tĩnh has a marginal and unusually wet humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) bordering on both a tropical monsoon climate (Am) and a trade-wind tropical rainforest climate (Af) – the last of these being a rare climate type in Vietnam. The heaviest rain is in the northeast monsoon season from September to November, when 1,616 millimetres or 63.6 inches can be expected, but rainfall exceeds 50 millimetres or 2 inches even in the driest months of the “spring” season. The weather during the “winter” season from December to February is warm, humid and somewhat rainy, whilst the “summer” from May to August is hot to sweltering although drier than most of Indochina due to the influence of the mountains to the southwest.
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