page_title: Hanoi
section_title: Religion
hierarchical_section_title: Hanoi / Religion
caption_attribution_description: English: Vietnam
context_page_description: Hanoi is the capital city of Vietnam. It covers an area of 3,358.6 square kilometres. It is the second largest city in Vietnam, with over eight million residents within city proper and an estimated population of 20 million within the metropolitan area. Located in the heart of the Red River Delta, Hanoi is the commercial, cultural, and educational centre of Northern Vietnam. Having an estimated nominal GDP of US$32.8 billion as of 2018, it is the second most productive economic area of Vietnam, after Ho Chi Minh City.
  The city was a small settlement along the banks of the Red River until 1010, when monarch Lý Thái Tổ founded the city as the capital of Imperial Vietnam, naming it Thăng Long. Thăng Long would remain the most important political and cultural centre of Vietnam until 1802, when the Nguyễn dynasty, the last imperial dynasty of Vietnam, moved the capital to Huế. The city renamed to Hanoi in 1831, and was the capital of French Indochina from 1883 to 1945 during French colonisation of the Indochina Peninsula.
context_section_description: Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism have been the main religions of Vietnam for many years. Most Vietnamese consider themselves Buddhist, though not all of them regularly follow religion. [19] According to figures from the Vietnam General Statistics Office in 2009, 6.8 million (or 7.9% of the total population) are Buddhists, 5.7 million (6.6%) are Catholics, 1.4 million (1.7%) followed by Joao Hao, 0.8 million (0.9%) are practicing Cao Dai and 0.7 million (0.9%) are Protestants. In total, 15,651,467 Vietnamese (18.2%) are declared to belong to one religion. [20] The remaining 81% are atheists.
  The Vietnamese constitution guarantees freedom of religion, but in 2004 and 2005, the State Department included Vietnam in countries where freedom of worship was violated, as the Vietnamese government imposed religious restrictions on religious, religious and religious groups. practicing religions. By 2007, because of new resolutions, the faithful could practice their religion more freely, while new religious groups emerged. However, it appears that the authorities were delaying the issuance of licenses to Protestant churches in the northern part of the country and the training of Catholic and Protestant pastors.
caption: The St Joseph's Cathedral
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