Vietnam travel destinations
Quy Nhon
Quy Nhon is the capital of Binh Dinh province, it was officially founded more than 100 years ago, although its origins stretch back much further to the 11th-century Champa culture, the Tây Sơn Dynasty and the 18th century seaport of Thị Nại. The city is renowned as the birthplace of 18th century Vietnamese emperor Nguyen Hue and more recently, had a large American military presence during the Vietnam War.
Today, Quy Nhon is recognized as a first grade city with a geo-economic priority and an urbanized infrastructure. The government describes it as one of the three commercial and tourism centers of the central southern coastal region (with Đà Nẵng and Nha Trang).Quy Nhon has a varied topography, being extremely diversified with mountains and forests, hills, fields, salt marshes, plains, lagoons, lakes, rivers, shorelines, peninsulas and islands. Quy Nhon's coastline is 42 km long with sandy beaches, abundant seafood resources and other natural products of economic value. Therefore, Quy Nhon has a big potential tourism and be convenient for creating different kinds of tourism.
The city's economic activities include industries, export-imports, seaport services, aquatic product husbandry and tourism.
