BINH DINH

Area: 6,076 sq km

Population: 1,461, 46

Provincial capital: Qui Nhon City

Ethnic groups: Viet (Kinh), Cham, Bana...

Binh Dinh province has all characteristics of the coastal area in South Central Vietnam. It has 100 km long coastline and numerous islands offshore. Annual average temperature varies from 26-280C. Rainy season lasts 4 months (August to December).

Besides Quang Trung museum, Long Khanh pagoda, Hoang De citadel (Cha Ban), Binh Dinh has an original Cham Towers system, including Duong Long tower, Banh It tower, and Doi tower...

Specially, Binh Dinh and other provinces in this region have been given a present from Nature: hot water springs. Hoi Van hot water spring has temperature of 760C (168,80F) and it composes of various mineral components useful for health improvement.

There are many well-known special products in Binh Dinh province, for example: silk, salangane’s nest, precious wood, aquilaria, handy-craft products etc.



One of Binh Dinh's advantages for developing social-economy, expanding relation with domestic and international regions is its transport system including National Highway N°1A, Trans-Viet Railway along the length of the province, Phu Cat airport - 30 km from Qui Nhon city in the North and Qui Nhon sea-port which is one of the bigest ten sea-ports of the county an is considered the key area from now to 2003 by the Government. Qui Nhon is a windproofing place with deep water level, large depots capable of hosting ships with capacity up to 30,000 tons. The National Highway N°19 connecting the province with the potential High Land and in the near future with North Western Cambodia, Southern Laos and ThaiLand.



Telecomunication system with many kinds of services can meet the comunication demands. Qui Nhon has a reliable power supply system of 220 kV and lower connecting to the national electricity network of 500 kV and company Vinh Son's hydro-electricity plant with the capacity of 66 MW serving all the districts of the province.

The province is upgrading Qui Nhon's water company with the capacity from 20,000 m3 per day to 45,000 m3 per day.