Biên Hòa (Northern accent: , Southern accent: ) is the capital city of Đồng Nai Province, Vietnam and part of the Ho Chi Minh City metropolitan area and located to the northeast of Ho Chi Minh City, to which Biên Hòa is linked by Vietnam Highway 1. Classified as a class-1 provincial city, it is the sixth largest city in Vietnam by population.
Đồng Nai is the second largest province after Ho Chi Minh City, the second largest in the east (after Binh Phuoc Province) and the third in the south (after Binh Phuoc Province and Kien Giang Province). Bien Hoa city which is the city with the largest population in the whole country. Dong Nai's population now ranks fifth among 63 provinces in Vietnam.
The capital is 30 km from Ho Chi Minh City, 1,684 km from Ha Noi by National Highway 1A. The province is considered as a gateway province into the Southeast economic region - the most dynamic and dynamic economic region in the country. At the same time, Dong Nai is one of the three corners of the development triangle of Ho Chi Minh City - Binh Duong - Dong Nai. Most of the population live in HCMC. Bien Hoa with over 1 million inhabitants and 2 districts of Trang Bom and Long Thanh.
