Ba Đình Square ( vi, Quảng trường Ba Đình) is the name of a square in
Hanoi
Hanoi or Ha Noi ( or ; vi, Hà Nội ) is the capital and second-largest city of Vietnam. It covers an area of . It consists of 12 urban districts, one district-leveled town and 17 rural districts. Located within the Red River Delta, Hanoi is ...
where president
Ho Chi Minh
(: ; born ; 19 May 1890 – 2 September 1969), commonly known as (' Uncle Hồ'), also known as ('President Hồ'), (' Old father of the people') and by other aliases, was a Vietnamese revolutionary and statesman. He served as P ...
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on September 2, 1945. It is named after the
Ba Đình Uprising, an anti-French rebellion that occurred in Vietnam in 1886–1887 as part of the
Cần Vương movement.
[Origines: the streets of Vietnam : a historical companion J. Wills Burke - 2001 "Ba Đình Square, Where HỔ Chí Minh proclaimed Vietnamese independence On 2 September 1945, derives its name from this uprising.] When Ho Chi Minh died, the granite
Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum
The President Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum ( vi, Lăng Chủ tịch Hồ Chí Minh) is a mausoleum which serves as the resting place of Vietnamese revolutionary leader and President Ho Chi Minh in Hanoi, Vietnam. It is a large building located in the cen ...
was built here to display his embalmed body. It remains a major site of tourism and pilgrimage.
Ba Dinh Square is in the center of
Ba Đình District, with several important buildings located around it, including the President's Palace, the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the
Ministry of Planning and Investment, and the
National Assembly
In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the rep ...
Building.
References
National squares
Squares in Hanoi
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