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The provinces are divided into provincial cities (thành phố thuộc tỉnh), municipal cities (thành phố trực thuộc thành phố trung ương), towns/borough (thị xã), urban district (quận), and rural districts (huyện) as the second-tier units.
On the first tier, Vietnam is divided into 57 provinces (Vietnamese: tỉnh) and 6 municipalities (Vietnamese: thành phố trực thuộc trung ương). Municipalities are the highest-ranked cities in Vietnam. [1] Municipalities are centrally-controlled cities and have special status equal to a province.
District level: municipal city (thành phố thuộc thành phố trực thuộc trung ương, literally city in a city subordinate to central authority), [1] urban district (quận), provincial city (thành phố thuộc tỉnh, literally city in a province), town (thị xã) and rural district (huyện)
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 level includes: district-level cities (thành phố thuộc Thành phố trực thuộc trung ương, thành phố thuộc Tỉnh), towns , rural districts and urban districts . These subdivisions are further divided into communes ( xã ) in rural areas (subdivisions under huyện , suburbans of towns and quận ) and ward ( phường ...
Centrally controlled cities (thành phố trực thuộc trung ương) or municipalities are cities with significant importance in terms of politics, economy and culture of Vietnam that are under direct control of the Vietnamese Central government. There are currently six centrally controlled municipalities.
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]
Vietnam is a unitary state with 58 provinces and 5 municipalities or centrally-controlled cities. Each province (tỉnh) and municipality (thành phố trực thuộc trung ương) is subdivided into electoral units (đơn vị bầu cử).