Cầu Giấy

Cầu Giấy is a ward of Hanoi the capital city in the Red River Delta of Vietnam.

History

On 19 April 2025, to meet the policy to arrange and merge administrative units by the Government of Vietnam, the Hà Nội City People's Committee quickly approved a Resolution on the plan of re-arranging commune+ward-level administrative units in the whole city.
According to the political document published for the press in the same day, Cầu Giấy Urban District was officially dissolved. Its entire area and demography have been divided into three new wards Cầu Giấy 1, Cầu Giấy 2, and Cầu Giấy 3. Therefore, Cầu Giấy Ward has been established based on the merging of :

The entire ones of two former wards Dịch Vọng and Dịch Vọng Hậu.
The small parts of five former wards Nghĩa Tân, Quan Hoa, Yên Hòa from Cầu Giấy District, and Mỹ Đình 1, Mỹ Đình 2 from Nam Từ Liêm.

This new administrative unit basically has the meaning of preserving the cultural and historical values of before Giấy Hamlet and Hạ Yên Quyết Canton.

Geography

Topography

Cầu Giấy Ward situates roughly to the West area of urban Hanoi. According to the content of the planning map, what was given to households on 17 April 2025, the administrative unit named Cầu Giấy Ward is located in the South of Nghĩa Đô Ward and the North of Yên Hòa Ward. Its West is Từ Liêm Ward, while its East is adjacent to the Tô Lịch River and connected to the other side of the Trung Hòa Bridge by Láng Ward.

Climate

Like Hanoi, under the Köppen climate classification Cầu Giấy has a humid subtropical climate. There is significant air pollution in Cầu Giấy like other urban districts of Hanoi. A study by Vietnam National University in 2022 determined that most of the air pollution in Cầu Giấy is caused by particulates. Nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide and sulfur dioxide in the air are also present in significant amount.