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National Library of Vietnam

Hanoi, Vietnam · built 1917

The National Library of Vietnam (Vietnamese: Thư viện Quốc gia Việt Nam, Bibliothèque Nationale du Viet Nam) is the national library in Vietnam and it is located in Hanoi. It was established by a decree of 29 November 1917 as the central library of Indochina. In September 1919 the library was made open to the public with an intent to support and promote western archive and library work. It took the successive names of Pierre Pasquier (28 February 1935), Bibliothèque Nationale (National Library, 20 October 1945), Bibliothèque Centrale de Hanoï (Central Library of Hanoi, February 1947) before being given its present name at 21 November 1958.

Library data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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