1. Population: 1,670,400

2. Geographical features:

• Total area: 1,507 square km

3. Ethnic groups: 19

• Kinh: 1,444,534 people
• Tay: 258 people
• Thai: 16 people
• Hoa: 3,210 people
• Kh'mer: 10 people
• Muong: 67 people
• Nung: 97 people
• H'Mong: 4 people
• Dao: 17 people

• San Diu: 1 people
• M'nong: 1 people
• Ra Grai: 34 people
• Tho: 1 people
• Co Lao: 4 people
• Others: 229 people
• Nga: 20 people
• Ede: 2 people
• Ba Na: 11 people
• San Chay: 7 people

4. Religions:

• Buddhism: 70,000 believers.
• Catholicism: 40,000 believers.
• Protestantism: 1,800 believers.
• Caodaism: 86 believers.

5. Cultural institutions:

Museums: 4
Traditional houses: 9
Classified relics (as of 7/5/1997): 80
Historical relics:24
Cultural relics: 30
Historical and Cultural relic: 24
Archaeological relic: 1
Beautiful spot relic: 1
Cultural houses: 17         
Libraries: 21
Cinemas: 3
Theatres: 5

6. Festivals:

• Kien Bai temple (Cultural relic)

Sight seeing spots:

• Do Son Beach
• Trang Kenh (Minh Duc townlet, Thuy Nguyen)
• Elephant mountain (An Lao)
• Cat Ba national forest.

• Buffalo Fighting Festival: From the tenth of the sixth month to the ninth of the eighth month of the lunar calendar.