Văn Miếu Quốc Tử Giám

This article is about Hanoi the capital of Vietnam. For disambiguation, see Temple of Literature, Hanoi.

Văn Miếu Quốc Tử Giám Ward Phường Văn Miếu Quốc Tử Giám Phường Văn Miếu Phường Quốc Tử Giám
Ward (Class-II)
From top, left to right : Vietnam National Museum of Fine Arts, Goethe-Institut Hanoi, House of Ceremonies at the Temple of Literature, Tiên Phúc Temple, and Khâm Thiên Memorial.
Country	Vietnam
Region	Red River Delta
Municipality	Hà Nội
Establishment	December 21, 1974 (little zone) June 10, 1981 (urban district) June 16, 2025 (ward)
Central hall	No.202, Xã Đàn Street, Văn Miếu Quốc Tử Giám Ward
Government
• Type	Ward-level authority
• People Committee's Chairman	Hà Anh Tuấn
• People Council's Chairman	Đỗ Trọng Nam
• Front Committee's Chairman	Mai Văn Lâm
• Party Committee's Secretary	Đỗ Trọng Nam
Area
• Total	1.92 km2 (0.74 sq mi)
Population  (2025)
• Total	75,009
• Density	39,000/km2 (100,000/sq mi)
• Ethnicities	Kinh Tanka Others
Time zone	UTC+7 (Indochina Time)
ZIP code	10000–11508
Climate	Cwa
Website	Vanmieuquoctugiam.Hanoi.gov.vn Vanmieuquoctugiam.Hanoi.dcs.vn

Văn Miếu Quốc Tử Giám [van˧˧:miəw˧˥:kwəwk˧˥:tɨ̰˧˩˧:zaːm˧˥] is a ward of Hanoi the capital city in the Red River Delta of Vietnam.

History

Its name phường Văn Miếu Quốc Tử Giám stems from two famous historical and cultural relics, which lied in the center of the ward and even occupied the largest area : Văn Miếu (Temple of Literature) and Quốc Tử Giám (National Academy). Meanwhile, the English documents made by the Government of Vietnam and press have all accepted a very popular way of writing as Van Mieu Quoc Tu Giam ward, or simply VMQTG Ward.

Middle Ages

Before the Government of French Indochina undertook a comprehensive redevelopment of the entire area of Hanoi City around 1902, most of the area of modern Văn Miếu Quốc Tử Giám Ward was within the premises of the Temple of Literature. Some locations have always had guards to preserve the sanctity of the educational environment.

XX century

During the first half of the 20th century, it became the southern part of District 1, where a small thermal power plant was built by the French engineers to ensure adequate energy for the middle class.

On December 21, 1974, the Hanoi City People's Committee issued a law on re-dividing its area into little zones (like wards) and quarters (like urban district). Accordingly, the entire area of the Temple of Literature and the residential areas surrounding it have been planned as :

• Văn Miếu little zone belonging to Đống Đa quarter.
• Quốc Tử Giám little zone belonging to Đống Đa quarter.

In December 1978, a Decision on the re-organization of these two little zones was further issued.

XXI century

According to Resolution 1656/NQ-UBTVQH15 of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly of Vietnam on June 16, 2025, after the dissolution of Đống Đa Urban District, Văn Miếu Quốc Tử Giám Ward was established what based on the area of some old localities as follows :

• Total area and population of former wards : Khâm Thiên, Thổ Quan, Văn Chương.
• Part of the area and population of the wards : Hàng Bột, Văn Miếu - Quốc Tử Giám (old), Nam Đồng, Phương Liên - Trung Tự from former Đống Đa district, Cửa Nam from Hoàn Kiếm district, Lê Đại Hành, Nguyễn Du from Hai Bà Trưng district, Điện Biên from Ba Đình district.

See also

• Đống Đa
• Láng
• Hai Bà Trưng
• Khương Đình
• Ô Chợ Dừa
• Thanh Xuân

Further reading

Bibliography

• George Coedes. The Making of South East Asia, 2nd ed. University of California Press, 1983.
• Trần Ngọc Thêm. Cơ sở văn hóa Việt Nam (The Foundation of Vietnamese Culture), 504 pages. Publishing by Nhà xuất bản Đại học Tổng hợp TPHCM. Saigon, Vietnam, 1995.
• Trần Quốc Vượng, Tô Ngọc Thanh, Nguyễn Chí Bền, Lâm Mỹ Dung, Trần Thúy Anh. Cơ sở văn hóa Việt Nam (The Basis of Vietnamese Culture), 292 pages. Re-publishing by Nhà xuất bản Giáo Dục Việt Nam & Quảng Nam Printing Co-Ltd. Hanoi, Vietnam, 2006.
• Li Tana (2011). Jiaozhi (Giao Chỉ) in the Han period Tongking Gulf. In Cooke, Nola ; Li Tana ; Anderson, James A. (eds.). The Tongking Gulf Through History. University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 39–44. ISBN 9780812205022.
• Tập bản đồ hành chính Việt Nam (Vietnamese Administrative Maps), Nhà xuất bản Tài nguyên – Môi trường và Bản đồ Việt Nam, Hà Nội, 2013.
• Li Tana, Towards an environmental history of the Eastern Red River Delta, Vietnam, c.900–1400, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 2014.
• Samuel Baron, Christoforo Borri, Olga Dror, Keith W. Taylor (2018). Views of Seventeenth-Century Vietnam : Christoforo Borri on Cochinchina and Samuel Baron on Tonkin. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-1-501-72090-1.
• The Birth of Vietnam : Sino-Vietnamese Relations to the Tenth Century and the Origins of Vietnamese Nationhood. University of Michigan Press. 1976.
• Taylor, Keith Weiler (1983). The Birth of Vietnam. Berkeley, California: University of California Press. doi:10.2307/jj.8501140. ISBN 978-0-52007-417-0. JSTOR jj.8501140. LCCN 81011590. OCLC 1131176955. S2CID 265239427.
• Taylor, K. W.; Whitmore, John K., eds. (1995). Essays Into Vietnamese Pasts. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Southeast Asia Program. doi:10.7591/9781501718991. ISBN 978-0-87727-718-7. JSTOR 10.7591/j.ctv1nhmtn. OCLC 1091450831.
• Borri, Christoforo; Baron, Samuel (2006). Views of Seventeenth-Century Vietnam : Christoforo Borri on Cochinchina and Samuel Baron on Tonkin. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. doi:10.7591/9781501720901. ISBN 978-0-87727-771-2. JSTOR 10.7591/j.ctv3s8qt9. LCCN 2009280899. OCLC 1262600216. S2CID 160903627.
• Taylor, K. W. (2013). A History of the Vietnamese. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9781139021210. ISBN 978-1-107-24435-1. LCCN 2012035197. OCLC 843761714. S2CID 161759966.

External links

• Dự kiến tên gọi các phường–xã được thành lập ở Hà Nội
• Hà Nội sẵn sàng vận hành chính quyền hai cấp
• Phường Văn Miếu Quốc Tử Giám : Không khí làm việc nghiêm túc hiệu quả