Yên Hòa
Yên Hòa is a ward of Hanoi the capital city in the Red River Delta of Vietnam.
History
Its name Yên Hòa is originally a combination of seven localities that have many cultural traditions in urban Hanoi : Hòa Mục, Trung Hòa, Trung Kính, Trung Yên, Yên Hòa, Yên Lãng, and especially Yên Quyết.The modern area of Yên Hòa Ward is two former administrative units with a very long history : Kẻ Cót Village and Kẻ Giàn Village. Their remaining relics is an old communal hall called Trung Kính Hạ.
Middle Ages
According to Đồng Khánh địa dư chí lược, around the late years of Gia Long, the Southwestern area of Hà Nội Citadel still belonged to Từ Liêm rural district, Quốc Oai prefecture, Sơn Tây garrisons of the Northern Citadel regionBy 1831, Emperor Minh Mệnh issued an Order to eliminate the Ming-style "garrisons" regime to switch to the Qing-style "province" regime. Since then, Từ Liêm district has been part of Hoài Đức prefecture of Hà Nội province. In particular, the area of this district-level administrative unit consisted of 5 villages from its North to South and West to East side : Yên Quyết, Dịch Vọng, Mễ Trì, Yên Lãng, Đàn Kính Chủ. These administrative systems and names have remained the same until the end of the 1950s by many different governments.
20th century
In 1961, in the process of expanding the area of urban Hà Nội in the Southwest direction, most of those villages were merged into two urban districts V and VI, while Mễ Trì village became the commune of Từ Liêm rural district. Four merged villages have been raised to townships. Because at that time in the North Vietnam, there was no ward-level yet.On November 22, 1996, the Government of Vietnam issued Decree 74-CP to establish Cầu Giấy urban district on the basis of the entire area and population of 4 former townships Cầu Giấy, Mai Dịch, Nghĩa Đô, Nghĩa Tân, and 3 communes Dịch Vọng, Trung Hòa, Yên Hòa, belonging to Từ Liêm district. In particular, Cầu Giấy township was renamed to Quan Hoa ward. When newly established, the district had 7 wards : Dịch Vọng, Mai Dịch, Nghĩa Đô, Nghĩa Tân, Quan Hoa, Trung Hòa, and Yên Hòa.
21st century
On April 19, 2025, to realize the project to arrange and merge administrative units by the Government of Vietnam, the Hà Nội 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 population have been divided into three new wards Cầu Giấy 1, Cầu Giấy 2, and Cầu Giấy 3. From that reality, Yên Hòa Ward has been established based on the merging of :
- The entire natural area and population of two former wards Trung Hòa and Yên Hòa.
- The part of two former ward Mễ Trì and Nhân Chính.
Geography
Topography
Yên Hòa Ward situates roughly to the Southwest area of urban Hanoi. According to the content of the planning map, what was given to households on 17 April 2025, the administrative unit called Cầu Giấy 3 or New Yên Hòa Ward is located in the South of Cầu Giấy Ward through Dương Đình Nghệ Street and the North of Thanh Xuân Ward through Lê Văn Lương Avenue. Its West is Từ Liêm Ward and a little of Đại Mỗ 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.Before 2013, 2/3 of the area of Yên Hòa Ward was still vegetable fields. However, since the Trần Duy Hưng Boulevard has been completed and put into commercial exploitation, it has divided this ward into two little zones in Hanoi.