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Tây Hồ district

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Chua Tran Quoc (pagode de la défense du pays)
Chua Tran Quoc (pagode de la défense du pays)

Tây Hồ (West Lake) is an urban district (quận) located on the north side of central Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam. The district wraps around the West Lake (hồ Tây), one of the largest natural lakes of Vietnam. The district currently has 8 wards, covering a total area of 24.39 square kilometers. As of 2019, there were 160,495 people residing in the district, the population density is 6,600 inhabitants per square kilometer. Tây Hồ is a high-end residential area, housing a large population of expatriates and many Western restaurants and boutiques.

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Tây Hồ district
Đường Lạc Long Quân, Hà Nội Tay Ho District

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N 21.0707 ° E 105.812 °
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Đường Lạc Long Quân 428
11207 Hà Nội, Tay Ho District
Vietnam
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Chu Văn An High School, Hanoi
Chu Văn An High School, Hanoi

Chu Van An High School (Vietnamese: Trường Trung học phổ thông Quốc gia Chu Văn An), also known as Chu Van An National School or Pomelo School (trường Bưởi, before 1945) one of the three national high schools for the gifted in Vietnam along with Quoc Hoc High School in Huế and Le Hong Phong High School in Ho Chi Minh City. It is also one of the three magnet high schools in Hanoi, Vietnam, along with Hanoi-Amsterdam High School and Nguyen Hue High School. Established by the French authorities in 1908 as High School of the Protectorate (French: Lycée du Protectorat), Chu Van An is one of the oldest institutions for secondary education in South East Asia. Despite the initial intention to train native civil servants to serve the French colonial establishments, Vietnamese students at Bưởi school had many times struggled against colonial doctrine. A lot of Bưởi alumni became renowned political leaders and cultural figures in many areas of Vietnamese society such as Nguyễn Văn Cừ - the fourth general secretary of Communist Party of Vietnam, Phạm Văn Đồng - the first prime minister of North Vietnam and united Vietnam, Nguyễn Cao Kỳ- former vice president and prime minister of South Vietnam, Kaysone Phomvihane- former leader of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party, Prince Souphanouvong- the first president of Laos. In 1945, Lycée du Protectorat was renamed to Chu Van An High School.