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Hồng Lĩnh is a mountain range in Hà Tĩnh Province and Nghệ An Province, Vietnam. Hồng Lĩnh is the tên chữ Sino-Vietnamese name (literally "red mountain range"); the demotic tên nôm folk name is Rú Hông.
The mountains famously have 99 peaks. Nguyễn Huệ built the Trung Đô Citadel on Hồng Lĩnh mountain. The mountains were the place of retirement of Nguyến Du. In earlier days villagers went into the Hong Linh mountains at times of poor crops for hunting and harvesting rattan and leaves to make raincoats and hats. Hong Linh Mountain is now suffering ecological damage from people harvesting mật nhân, eurycoma longifolia jack.
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Hồng Lĩnh mountain Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA