Van Cao street, Lieu Giai ward, Ba Dinh district, Hanoi, Vietnam.
It’s 540m long, from Hoang Hoa Tham to Doi Can street, passing Quan Ngua sports complex. This is new street named in August, 2005.
Van Cao (1923 – 1995), born in Hai Phong city. He was a Vietnamese composer whose works include Tien Quan Ca, which became the national anthem of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. He, along with Pham Duy and Trinh Cong Son, is widely considered one of the three most salient figures of modern (non-classical) Vietnamese music. He was also a noted poet and a painter.
