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District 12 (Vietnamese: Quận 12) is an urban district of Ho Chi Minh City, the largest and most populous city in Vietnam. As of 2010, the district had a population of 427,083. [1] The district covers an area of 53.0 km². [1] The district is divided into 11 small subsets which are called wards.
The centrally-controlled municipalities (the other first-level division, in addition to provinces) are subdivided into rural districts (huyện), district-level towns, and urban districts (quận) that are further subdivided into wards (phường). The district (huyện) unit dates from the 15th century.
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 ( thị xã ), rural districts ( huyện ) and urban districts ( quận ).
Before 1975, in South Vietnam, all second-level administrative subdivisions were called districts (quận), regardless of urban or rural areas.For example, quận Châu Thành, Vĩnh Long Province is in the urban area of present Vĩnh Long city, and quận Trà Ôn was the rural area of present Vĩnh Long Province.
Gò Vấp is an urban district located in the north and northwest of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Gò Vấp borders District 12 in the north and west, Phú Nhuận District in the south, Tân Bình District in the west, and Bình Thạnh District in the east. The total land area is 20 km 2 (7.7 sq mi).
Bình Thạnh District borders the city of Thủ Đức to the east, Phú Nhuận district to the west, District 1 to the south, Gò Vấp district and District 12 to the north. Bình Quới Tourist Village is located on the Thanh Đa Peninsula on the Saigon River.
Districts (Vietnamese: huyện), also known as rural districts or counties, are one of several types of second-tier administrative subdivisions of Vietnam, the other types being urban districts (Vietnamese: quận), provincial cities (thành phố trực thuộc tỉnh), municipal cities (thành phố thuộc thành phố trực thuộc trung ương), and district-level towns (thị xã). [1]
The district covers an area of 5 km 2. [1] There are 13 wards in Phú Nhuận District as of March, 2021: Ward 1, Ward 2, Ward 3, Ward 4, Ward 5, Ward 7, Ward 8, Ward 9, Ward 10, Ward 11, Ward 13, Ward 15, Ward 17. In 2021, Vietnam's Standing Committee of the National Assembly decided to merge Wards 11 and 12, and Wards 13 and 14 of Phú Nhuận.