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The provinces of Vietnam are subdivided into second-level administrative units, namely districts (Vietnamese: huyện), provincial cities (thành phố trực thuộc tỉnh), and district-level towns (thị xã).
This is a list of district-level subdivisions (Vietnamese: đơn vị hành chính cấp huyện) of Vietnam.This level includes: district-level cities (thành phố thuộc Thành phố trực thuộc trung ương, thành phố thuộc Tỉnh), towns (), rural districts and urban districts ().
Established new urban districts of Da Nang municipality. Hà Đông: Hà Tây: 2006: 2009: Established Hà Đông district as part of Hanoi. Huế: Thừa Thiên Huế: 1929: 2025: Established new urban districts of Huế municipality. Sơn Tây: Hà Tây: 2007: 2009: Established Sơn Tây town as part of Hanoi. Ninh Bình: Ninh Bình: 2007: 2025
Vietnam is divided into 63 first-level subdivisions, comprising fifty-seven provinces (tỉnh) and six municipalities under the command of the central government (Vietnamese: thành phố trực thuộc trung ương).
There is a rare case: Phan Rang as district-level town is divided into two commune-level towns, Phan Rang and Tháp Chàm in 1977. Each commune-level town belonged to a county (Ninh Hải and An Sơn), and in 1981 the two commune-level towns was merged and re-established as county-level town named Phan Rang–Tháp Chàm (now as provincial city).
Drawing of Bà Rịa citadel in 1875. With the exception of the Côn Đảo islands, all of Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province was the Phước Tuy province after merging Bà Rịa Province and Vũng Tàu Town in the South Vietnam before 1975, including the Spratly Islands was a part of Phước Hải commune, Đất Đỏ district then (now is a townville of Long Đất district).
Vũng Tàu then became a district-level town (thị xã) of this new province. After the war, due to Vietnam being put under debilitating trade embargoes by the United States and failing economy, Vũng Tàu was a common launching place for the " Vietnamese boat people " – refugees escaping the post-war Communist regime.
Đông Anh district is bordered by Bắc Ninh province to the east, Gia Lâm district to the southeast, Mê Linh district to the west, the urban districts of Bắc Từ Liêm, Tây Hồ and Long Biên to the south, Sóc Sơn district to the north.