how big is hanoi, How big is the city of Hanoi, Vietnam?

What is the size of Hanoi?

In today's Hanoi city, many streets still use their old names, such as leather shops, copper shops, cotton shops, sugar shops, hemp shops, peach shops, sail shops, etc. Some streets still maintain their professional traditions of the past, such as leather shops selling leather goods and copper shops selling copperware. Today's Hanoi city has expanded its urban area from 152 square kilometers in 1954 to over 1000 square kilometers, and its population has increased from over 400000 at the time to about 3.1 million. It is the political and cultural center of Vietnam. Several wide and straight streets in the downtown area of Hanoi extend radially around Huanjian Lake, with tall trees growing year-round on both sides of the streets. The bustling streets in the city include Taojie, Tangjie, Tongchun Market, etc. Hanoi has its own industrial system, with sectors such as machinery, chemicals, textiles, sugar production, and cigarettes. Among them, machine manufacturing has become the national center. For example, the Hanoi Machine Manufacturing Factory can produce various high-precision working machines and new agricultural machinery to supply the whole country, transforming the river from a consumer city to a production city.