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Starting in the second half of the 20th century some provinces were newly created by splitting them off from bigger provinces. In 1975, Yasothon province was split off from Ubon Ratchathani. In 1977, Phayao province was created from districts formerly part of Chiang Rai. In 1982, Mukdahan was split off from Nakhon Phanom.
Thái Nguyên is a province in the Northeast region of Vietnam.It is a mountainous, midland province with a land area of 3,521.96 km 2 (1,359.84 sq mi) [1] and a population of 1,350,345 as of 2023, with 445,505 people in urban areas and 904,849 people in rural areas. [2]
Thái Bình is a coastal eastern province in the Red River Delta region of northern Vietnam. Its name is chữ Hán (太平) for "great peace." It is about 18 km from Nam Định, 70 km from Haiphong, and 110 km from Hanoi. As of 2022, it had a population 1,878,540. [5]
According to the planning of industrial areas of the Vietnam Government in 2020, most of the midland and northern mountainous (except Quảng Ninh) is located in First Area. It's divided into 2 sub-regions: Northwest: Điện Biên, Lai Châu, Sơn La, Hòa Bình, Lào Cai, Yên Bái.
Phú Quốc and nearby islands, along with the distant Thổ Chu Islands, are part of Kiên Giang Province as Phú Quốc City, this is Vietnam's first island city. [2] The island has a total area of 589.27 km 2 (227.52 sq mi) and a permanent population of approximately 179,480 people in 2020.
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).
The Tày people, also known as the Thổ, T'o, Tai Tho, Ngan, Phen, Thu Lao, or Pa Di, is a Central Tai-speaking ethnic group who live in northern Vietnam. According to a 2019 census, there are 1.8 million Tày people living in Vietnam. [6] This makes them the second largest ethnic group in Vietnam after the majority Kinh (Vietnamese) ethnic group.
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).