Quang Ninh province

Quảng Ninh or Quangninh is a province along the northeastern coast of Vietnam. It is about 153 km east of Hanoi, comprising four cities, two district-level towns and seven rural districts. The provincial capital is Hạ Long. The province covers an area of 6178.21 square kilometres and, as of 2019, had a population of 1,320,324. Nearly 80% of the province is mountainous with abundant land, forest, water and mineral resources, with 90% of Vietnam's coal output extracted from the province. The province is also home to Hạ Long Bay, a World Heritage Site that has 1,969 islands, out of which 989 have been given names.Quảng Ninh has a Human Development Index of 0.769, ranking sixth among all municipalities and provinces of Vietnam.