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Urban District in Red River Delta, Vietnam · Hanoi

Gia Lâm

Gia Lâm is the former easternmost urban district of Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam.

Gia Lâm
Gia Lâm · Krzysztof Popławski (CC BY 4.0)
The place

Gia Lâm is the former easternmost urban district of Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Gia Lâm

2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    VinUni

    VinUni is a Vietnamese private and nonprofit university located in Hanoi, Vietnam. It is the world's first higher education institution that has a one-word name.

    3.4 km · private nonprofit university in Hanoi, Vietnam · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Hanoi University of Agriculture

    Vietnam National University of Agriculture, until 2014 Hanoi University of Agriculture, is an education and research university specializing in the agricultural sector. The university is located in Trau Quy town, Gia Lam district, a Hanoi suburban area, about 12 km far from Hanoi city centre.

    1.7 km · university · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Gia Lâm

Airports
Noi Bai (HAN), 26 km · Cat Bi (HPH), 85 km · Nanning Wuxu (NNG), 291 km
Stations
Gia Lam Airport, 5.9 km
  • Haiphong (Hai An) → Gia Lâm
    99 km · quickest by road, 2h 3m · ₫117,000–155,000
  • Da Nang → Gia Lâm
    601 km · quickest by air, 5h 2m · ₫1,812,810–2,811,970
  • Nanning (Jiangnan) → Gia Lâm
    291 km · quickest by road, 5h 31m · ¥135–180
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Gia Lâm

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Gia Lâm. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inBy shuttle bus – (It is not clear if these are still running as of June 2022.) Hourly between the airport and the Tickets at the airport are sold in the building in front of which the minibuses park, or you can give the fare directly to the driver.
  • Go nextThe Sapa mountain region close to the Chinese border, home to ethnic minorities, gorgeous mountain scenery, and trekking paths connecting many tiny mountain villages, is the second-most popular trip.
  • Go next320 km northwest from the capital, Sapa is accessible by direct private bus services from Hanoi, which now only takes 5h30 thanks to excellent new highways; or by 8-hour train journey from Hanoi Station to Lao Cai, then onward by minibus or hired motorbike.
  • Go nextTam Coc/Hoa Lu in Ninh Binh Province, is a day trip is combining heritage tourism and natural landscape tourism.

From Wikivoyage: Hanoi, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Sa PaVN

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    260 km
  2. 02
    Luang PrabangLA

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    416 km
  3. 03
    Luang NamthaLA

    12 ways of moving, 37 sources

    470 km
  4. 04
    Huay XaiLA

    12 ways of moving, 48 sources

    580 km
  5. 05
    Pakse and Si Phan DonLA

    12 ways of moving, 45 sources

    656 km

If you know how people move in Gia Lâm – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Gia Lâm

Gia Lâm is 4 km from Long Bien, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.