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Haiphong (sh)




Seaport city (pop., 1992 est.: 783,133), northern Vietnam.

Lying on the Red River delta, off the Gulf of Tonkin, it is the nation's third largest city and serves as the port of the capital, Hanoi, 60 mi (97 km) to the west. Established in 1874, it developed commercially as a port and as the terminus of a railway. It became a leading industrial centre, and after 1954 many new plants were built there with aid given by Soviet-bloc countries and by China. It sustained heavy damage from U.S. bombing during the Vietnam War but was subsequently rebuilt.