Đồng Hới

Dong Hoi Đồng Hới
Quang Binh Old Citadel Gate in Dong Hoi
Nickname(s): city of roses
Coordinates: 17°28′59″N 106°35′59″E
Country	Vietnam
Province	Quang Binh
Government
• Type	City municipality
• Mayor	unknown
Area
• Total	155.54 km2 (60.05 sq mi)
Population (2006)
• Total	103,988
• Density	668.561/km2 (1,731.57/sq mi)
	Registered residents only
Time zone	Vietnam (UTC+7)
Website	[1]

Fishing boats in Dong Hoi.

Đồng Hới  pronunciation (info • help) is the capital city of Quảng Bình province, in the north central coast of Vietnam. The city's area is 155.54 km² (60 square miles). In 2005, 103,005 people lived there.

It is at around 500 km (310 mi) south of Hà Nội (Hanoi), 260 km (160 mi) north of Đà Nẵng (Danang), 1,200 km (750 mi) north of Hồ Chí Minh City (Saigon). It borders Laos on the west, the South China Sea on the east, Hà Tĩnh province on the north, and Quảng Ninh in the south. Dong Hoi Airport is 6 km north of Dong Hoi.

Administration

Dong Hoi is subdivided into 16 subdivisions, 10 urban wards (phường) and 6 rural communes (xã).

No.	Name	Vietnamese	Pop.	Area (km2)
1.	Bac Ly	Phường Bắc Lý	13,536	10.19
2.	Bac Nghia	Phường Bắc Nghĩa	6981	7.76
3.	Dong My	Phường Đồng Mỹ	2653	0.58
4.	Dong Phu	Phường Đồng Phú	8016	3.81
5.	Dong Son	Phường Đồng Sơn	8815	19.65
6.	Duc Ninh Dong	Phường Đức Ninh Đông	4726	3.13
7.	Hai Dinh	Phường Hải Đình	3808	8,822
8.	Hai Thanh	Phường Hải Thành	4774	2.45
9.	Nam Ly	Phường Nam Lý	11,579	3.9
10.	Phu Hai	Phường Phú Hải	3440	3.06
11.	Bao Ninh	Xã Bảo Ninh	8538	16.3
12.	Duc Ninh	Xã Đức Ninh	7526	5.21
13.	Loc Ninh	Xã Lộc Ninh	8407	13.4
14.	Nghia Ninh	Xã Nghĩa Ninh	4508	16.22
15.	Quang Phu	Xã Quang Phú	3106	3.23
16.	Thuan Duc	Xã Thuận Đức	3738	45.28