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Hanoi
[ ha-noi, huh- ]
noun
- a city in and the capital of Vietnam, in the N part, on the Songka River.
Hanoi
/ hæˈnɔɪ /
noun
- the capital of Vietnam, on the Red River: became capital of Tonkin in 1802, of French Indochina in 1887, of Vietnam in 1945, and of North Vietnam (1954–75); university (1917); industrial centre. Pop: 4 147 000 (2005 est)
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On October 26 they were assigned to attack a power plant supplying the North Vietnamese capital, Hanoi.
During the bus ride from Hanoi's airport I blurted out the whole story to Joanne.
Third, we also know from the archives in Moscow, Havana and Hanoi, that Kennedy was right to resist his hawks.
Ho Chi Minh in Hanoi was a communist dictator, for sure, but had a genuine following.
He was one of the most grievously injured pilots to arrive in Hanoi.
By their aid the invading French were driven from Hanoi and forced back in defeat.
There is an air of happiness and life about Hanoi which is typically Parisian and even during war time it is a city of gayety.
I was at Hanoi, residing in a house situated in a narrow avenue and next to the barracks.
We heard something of it from an old Siamese in Hanoi, but we never put much trust in it.
The first experiments with coffee growing were begun in 1887, near Hanoi in Tonkin.
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