Phúc Yên

Phúc Yên is a ward of Phú Thọ Province, Vietnam, and was before 2025 a city in the southeast of the old Vĩnh Phúc Province. The Vietnamese Wikipedia article describes it as lying about 30 kilometres from the centre of Hanoi, next to Nội Bài international airport, with Phổ Yên city of Thái Nguyên to the north, Bình Xuyên district to the west and Mê Linh and Sóc Sơn districts of Hanoi to the south and east. Roads and rails run through it, among them National Routes 2 and 23, the Asian road from Hanoi to Lào Cai and the Hanoi to Lào Cai railway. It is 24 kilometres long from north to south, from Hùng Vương ward up to the Nhe pass in Ngọc Thanh commune on the Thái Nguyên border. It was a satellite town of the Hanoi capital region, meeting urban type III standards in 2013, a centre for tourism, resorts, sport, training and industry, with the Đại Lải lake beach.