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This educational excerpt is from Wikipedia. Thái Nguyên Province is a province situated in mountainous and midland region of North Vietnam. Thái Nguyên is not a large province and accounts only 1.13% of the country's area and 1.41% of its population or approximately 1,095,400 individuals. The climate of Thái Nguyên has two clearly distinguished seasons: the rainy one from May to October and dry one from October to May. It rains most in August and least in January. Generally speaking, Thái Nguyên's climate is favourable for developing agriculture and forestry. And lastly, here is a little information about names in Vietnam. Vietnamese names generally consist of three parts: a family name, a middle name, and a given name, used in that order. Like their Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and other counterparts, this is in accordance to the East Asian system of personal names. The family name, positioned first, is passed on by the father to his children. It is estimated that there are around one hundred family names in common use, although some are far more common than others. The name Nguyen is estimated to be used by almost 40% of the Vietnamese population. In Vietnamese cultural practice, women almost always keep their family names once they marry, just as in other Eastern Asian cultures, including Chinese culture, to the north and northeast. The middle name, or more correctly, intercalary name is selected by parents from a fairly narrow range. In the past, almost all women had Thi as their middle name, and many men had Văn. The given name, or last name, is the primary form of address for Vietnamese. It is chosen by parents, and usually has a literal meaning in the Vietnamese language. For women, names often represent beauty, such as bird or flower names. For men, names often reflect attributes and characteristics that the parents want in their child, such as modesty.
Typically, Vietnamese will be addressed with their given name, even in formal situations, although an honorific equivalent to "Mr.", "Mrs.", etc. will be added when necessary. This contrasts with the situation in many other cultures, where the family name is used in formal situations.