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Geography

Thai Binh is a eastern coastal province in the Red River Delta region; the distance with Ha Noi capital is 110 km, with Hai Phong city 70 km and with Nam Dinh city 18 km.

Main line : Highway 10, Highway 39, road 39B, 223 - road junction Thai Binh with Hai Phong , Nam Ðinh, Hung Yen, Hai Duong district - Highway 10 is the road shortest junction Quang Ninh, Hai Phong, Thai Binh with South provinces.

Main rivers : Red River, Tra Ly river, Luoc river, Hoa river . Bridge system was built on all of main line, include Tan Ðe bridge, Thai Binh bridge, Trieu Duong bridge.

Thai Binh has a township is Thai Binh city and seven district : Quynh Phu, Hung Ha, Thai Thuy, Ðong Hung, Vu Thu, Kien Xuong and Tien Hai.

Geographical position: Thai Binh is a coastal province in the Red River Delta region. The North part border the provinces of Hai Duong, Hung Yen and Hai Phong city ; The South part border Nam Ðinh province ; The Western part border Ha Nam province and the Eastern part border Gulf of Tonkin.

Geographical co-ordinate : 20o17' - 20o44' latitude of North and 106o06' - 106o39' longitude of East.

Topography : Being a delta province with flat terrain and slope of below 1 percent; the terrain of Thai Binh province runs downward from the North to the South and varies its height of 1 – 2m to the sea level.

Terrain : An even and flat terrain, there's no hills and mountains, three faces border river and one face border sea . Rich and fat land has shaped by silt raised the level. Network of traffic is advantage. Network of interprovincial traffic is spreaded out a rug of concrete asphalt. All of network of local traffic is spreaded asphalt.

In administrative border, over natural land area of province, nowadays there is above 16 thousands ha of Thai Thuy and Tien Hai distric's coastal land was measured, today is being invested exploited to aquaculture and afforest,in there, it inserted aquaculture over 4.000 ha and planded 7.000 ha salt-marsh forest.

Natural Conditions

Thai Binh is province lie in tropical monsoon area, big heat radiation , create high temperature. Average temperature from 23oC to 24oC; Average rainfall in year from 1.500 millimetre to 1.900 millimetre ; In a lot of year , average moisture is 85% - 90%.

Natural Resources

Alluvium areas includes Red river, Luoc river and Tra Ly river inside of 54.600 ha areas.salt-alluvium land areas are 27.000 ha; The old sand bank having areas of 6.805 ha.Thai Binh land is suitable for growing rice breeds having high yields , good quality, rich and quality group of fruits, vegetables, crops.

1. Red river lie in South and East South, it is frontier of Thai Binh and Ha Nam, Nam Ðinh province, it flow Thai Binh has 77,5 km long, river-bed wide 500 m - 1000 m, flow Ba Lat port go to sea.
2. Luoc river lie in North,it is frontier of Thai Binh and Hai Duong, Hung Yen province, flow Thai Binh has 37 km long.
3. Tra Ly river flow province center, it divides Thai Binh province to two part North and South; Tra Ly river has 63 km long and river-bed has 100 - 200 m wide.
4. Hoa river is branch of Luoc river, it is frontier Ninh Giang (Hai Duong) and Quynh Phu (Thai Binh) flow to sea.

Interior field river has 1.936 rivers, include : The North is Tien Hung and Sa Lung river system; The South is Kien Giang river system