Hanoi

Vietnam

Hanoi is the capital and second-most populous centrally-governed city of Vietnam. It covers an area of 3,358.6 km2, and as of 2026 has a population of 8.7 million. Hanoi had the second-highest gross regional domestic product of all Vietnamese provinces and centrally-governed cities at US$48 billion in 2023, behind Ho Chi Minh City.

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Country: Vietnam
Population: 4,378,000
Latitude: 21.04° N
Longitude: 105.85° E

Which way is Hanoi from…

From Paris, Hanoi lies at 66° to the north-east, 9,196 km as the crow flies.

Paris	66° north-east	9,196 km
London	65° north-east	9,234 km
New York	0° north	13,149 km
Madrid	62° north-east	10,040 km
Rome	72° east	8,730 km
Montreal	1° north	12,616 km
Saint-Denis, Réunion	53° north-east	7,190 km

Bearings as the crow flies (great circle), measured from north. From somewhere else, the bearing changes: that’s the whole game.

Oùcécap’s take

Aim at 0°, due north: that is the bearing for Hanoi from New York, over the North Pole, Siberia and Mongolia, whereas a flat map would point east, at 97°. From London, too, the map misleads: it would say 110°, east, while the compass reads 65°, north-east, for 9,234 km over Russia and Kazakhstan. Its nearest neighbour, Vientiane, lies 482 km to the south-west.