Plan de la Ville de Hanoi.: Geographicus Rare Antique Maps
1952 (dated) 1 : 11000 Description This is a 1952 Force terrestres d'Extême-Orient city plan or map of Hanoi, Vietnam. Published near the end of the First Indochina War (1946 - 1954), the map details a city that had been at war since 1940. Streets bear French names and are labeled in French, although a handful bear Vietnamese names and are labeled as such. Intriguingly, the lakes all have Vietnamese names. The train station is marked by diagonal hatching, along with the library, military hospital, the Institut Pasteur, and several other unlabeled buildings. The citadel, i...