Hưng Yên City

Hưng Yên City is a former city in the Red River Delta of northern Vietnam. It was the capital of Hưng Yên Province and a city of the third class in the national urban classification, and it ceased to exist as a municipal city on 1 July 2025 when district-level units were abolished. The city grew out of Phố Hiến, a river port that appeared in the 16th century and held the Sơn Nam garrison government, and the French protectorate expanded it into the town of Hưng Yên. It covers 73.89 square kilometres in the far south of the province beside the Red River, about 54 to 60 kilometres from Hanoi, on almost flat delta land that slopes from northeast to southwest, and it also holds two river islands, Phú Cường and Hùng Cường communes. In 2021 it had 118,646 people, all registered as Kinh, and it is known for the historic Phố Hiến sites and for dragon-eye fruit.