Northern Vietnam (Miền Bắc) is one of the three regions within Vietnam (the other two regions are Central Vietnam and Southern Vietnam).
Of the three regions, the oldest is Northern Vietnam, where the Vietnamese culture originated over 2000 years ago in the Red River Delta, though Vietnamese people eventually spread south into the Mekong Delta.
The largest city in the North is Hanoi, the nation's capital, other major cities include Hải Phòng, Nam Định City.
Northern Vietnam includes the following subregions:
- Northwest (Tây Bắc) (6 provinces: Lào Cai, Yên Bái, Điện Biên, Hòa Bình, Lai Châu, Sơn La). This subregion is located on right bank of Hồng River. Lao Cai and Yên Bái are sometimes listed in subregion Đông Bắc.
- Northeast (Đông Bắc) (9 provinces: Hà Giang, Cao Bằng, Bắc Kạn, Lạng Sơn, Tuyên Quang, Thái Nguyên, Phú Thọ, Bắc Giang, Quảng Ninh.)
- Red River Delta (Đồng Bằng Sông Hồng) (10 provinces: Bắc Ninh, Hà Nam, Hà Nội, Hải Dương, Hải Phòng, Hưng Yên, Nam Định, Ninh Bình, Thái Bình, Vĩnh Phúc.)
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“Our ancestors were savages. The story of Romulus and Remus being suckled by a wolf is not a meaningless fable. The founders of every state which has risen to eminence have drawn their nourishment and vigor from a similar wild source. It was because the children of the Empire were not suckled by the wolf that they were conquered and displaced by the children of the northern forests who were.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Myra MacPherson, U.S. author. Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the Haunted Generation, epilogue (1984)