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Hanoi Botanic Garden

Richard Mortel from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia · CC BY 2.0

17% trees around it and 172 species recorded.

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  • trees within 3 km17%
  • wild within 10 km39%
  • species recorded172

The forest around

17% trees.

Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.

Trees 25%Grassland 0%Water 29%Bare ground 0%Cropland 0%Built-up 44%Trees 16%Grassland 0%Water 18%Bare ground 0%Cropland 2%Built-up 63%Trees 17%Grassland 3%Water 13%Bare ground 1%Cropland 7%Built-up 60%Trees 28%Grassland 5%Water 7%Bare ground 2%Cropland 14%Built-up 44%17%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km25%
  • 1–3 km16%
  • 3–6 km17%
  • 6–10 km28%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees16%
  • Grassland0%
  • Water18%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland2%
  • Built-up63%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

Who lives here

172 species recorded.

The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

Rice
RiceOryza sativa16 recordsLeo Michels · Public domain
Camphor laurel
Camphor laurelCinnamomum camphora6 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Shaddock
ShaddockCitrus maxima6 recordsKurt Stüber [1] · CC BY-SA 3.0
Vachellia farnesiana
Vachellia farnesianaVachellia farnesiana4 recordsJudgefloro · Public domain
Chinese Dates
Chinese DatesZiziphus jujuba4 recordsRémi Tournebize · CC BY-SA 3.0
Henna
HennaLawsonia inermis4 recordsDinesh Valke from Thane, India · CC BY-SA 2.0
Mexican poppy
Mexican poppyArgemone mexicana3 recordsB.navez · CC BY-SA 3.0
Humulus scandens
Humulus scandensHumulus scandens3 records傻子 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Soybean
SoybeanGlycine max3 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Broadleaf carpetgrass
Broadleaf carpetgrassAxonopus compressus2 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Pacific Island silvergrass
Pacific Island silvergrassMiscanthus floridulus2 recordsDaderot · Public domain
Ramgoat dashalong
Ramgoat dashalongTurnera ulmifolia2 recordsUpstateNYer · CC BY-SA 3.0

Open records within 2 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

32out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 17%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 39%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 172Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km

When to walk

Best for walking from December to January.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan20°11°32 mm
  2. Feb23°13°22 mm
  3. Mar27°16°49 mm
  4. Apr30°20°78 mm
  5. May32°23°179 mm
  6. Jun32°25°201 mm
  7. Jul32°25°300 mm
  8. Aug31°25°322 mm
  9. Sep30°23°223 mm
  10. Oct28°20°124 mm
  11. Nov25°16°52 mm
  12. Dec21°11°25 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Hanoi Botanic Garden.

Botanical garden in Hanoi, Vietnam

Hanoi Botanic Garden is an arboretum in Vietnam.

Seen from space, 17% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 39% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

172 species have been recorded around it: 30 plants, 2 fungi, 139 birds and 1 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Rice, Camphor laurel and Shaddock.

The best time to walk is from December to January.

Botanical Gardens, Hanoi (2) (37608713075)
Richard Mortel from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia · CC BY 2.0

Get there and walk

  • Mix Campsitecampsite · 4.2 km · 9 within 10 km
  • Khách Sạn Little Hanoiplace to stay · 1.7 km · 924 within 10 km
  • Ba Dinhnearest town · 0.7 km in a straight line
  • Noi Bai International Airport (HAN)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 20 km in a straight line

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

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From above

The forest and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.

Hanoi Botanic Garden seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 10named and notable trees within 6 kmCây ngọc lan, Cây Đa Cổ Thụ, Cây bồ đề and 7 more
  • 2picnic sites within 4 km
  • 64shelters and huts within 6 kmNhà riêng and 63 more
  • 18viewpoints within 5 km
  • 6visitor centres within 6 kmThông tin Du lịch Hà Nội and 5 more
  • 116car parks within 3 km
  • 9campsites within 10 kmMix Campsite, Thảo Nguyên Hoa Long Biên, Windie Garden and 6 more
  • 924places to stay within 10 kmKhách Sạn Little Hanoi, Khách Sạn Đức Thái, Khách Sạn Little Hanoi Diamond and 921 more
  • 1,809restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

In our other atlases

Around Hanoi Botanic Garden.

The mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and canyons around this forest, the viewpoints above it, the birds and the night sky, in the family's atlases.

Peakyas2 mountains within 25 km
Núi Chè20 kmNúi Khóm23 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
West Lake5.7 km² · 1.2 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Bridge - Hanoi Botanical Garden - Hanoi, Vietnam - DSC03606
Daderot · CC0
Bachthaohn
Viethavvh · Public domain
Botanical Gardens, Hanoi (3) (38439710506)
Richard Mortel from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia · CC BY 2.0

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q9010921) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species4,768 open records within 2 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only)
See these recordsgbif.org
Names and photosWikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Lakeyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

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