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Åódź | |
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State | Łódź Voivodeship |
Country | Poland |
Capital | |
Population | 711332 |
The Vietnamese alphabet (Vietnamese chu Quoc Ngu, script for the national language) uses the modern Latin writing script. It uses the Latin script that was originally created by Francisco de Pina, a Portuguese missionary. The Vietnamese alphabet has 29 letters. Five additional diacritics are used to indicate tone (as in a), a), a), a and a.
Bechar | |
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State | Béchar |
Country | Algeria |
Capital | |
Population | 165627 |
Postcode | 08000 |
Béchar (Arabic: بشار) is the capital city of Béchar Province, Algeria. It is also a commune, coextensive with Béchar District, of Béchar Province. In 2008 the city had a population of 165,627, up from 134,954 in 1998, with an annual growth rate of 2.1%. The commune covers an area of 5,050 square kilometres (1,950 sq mi).Before coal was found here in 1907, Béchar was a small populated town prior to its annexation to French Algeria on 1904. It has then thrived on the activity of the coal mines until petroleum production seized the market.