Thua Thien Hue Province

Country
Vietnam
Site Description

Thua Thien Hue is located in the Central Region of Viet Nam. at the latitude 16-1608 North and longitude 10708-10802 East - bordered on the north by Quang Tri Province, on the south by Da Nang City, on the west by the Truong Son Mountain Range adjacent to Laos PDR, and on the east by East Sea. The province constitutes 5,009 km2 in total area and is eighty-eight km in circumference along its borders, with 128km-length coast, 22.000 ha of lagoon, more than 200.000 ha of forest, and more than one hundred sites of mineral deposits. The rainy season in the area, unlike those in the North and the South, coincides with the cold winter. Therefore, plants, grasses, flowers and animals in Thua Thien Hue also belong to the Indian-Chinese buffer zone country-region Indonesia and are part of a complicated and diversified ecosystem. Thua Thien Hue is divided into nine administrative units including the major city of Hue, six districts in the plains area and two districts in the mountainous areas. The province has a population of nearly 1 million people.

Governor's / Mayor's Information
Phan Ngoc Tho

Chairman of Thua Thien Hue People's Committee
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SDG Targets

    SDG 14 Life Below Water

14.1 Scale up the protection and conservation of marine and coastal ecosystems and resoiurces that are socially, ecologically and/or economically significant as a percentage of the areal extent of coastal and marine areas within the jurisdiction of the local government

14.2 Increase the production of certified fisheries and aquaculture products in accordance with national guidelines and standards and other relevant standards if national standards do not exist

14.3 Increase the number of coastal and marine tourism sites that are recognized as sustainable tourism and/or ecotourism sites in accordance with national guidelines and standards and other relevant standards if national standards do not exist

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