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Cities in Vietnam are identified by the government as settlements with considerable area and population that play important roles vis-a-vis politics, economy and culture. Status of cities falls into four categories: special, first class (I), second class (II), and third class (III). [1]
The Vietnamese government recognizes 54 ethnic groups, of which the Viet (Kinh) is the largest; according to official Vietnamese figures (2019 census), ethnic Vietnamese account for 85.3% of the nation's population and the non-Vietnamese ethnic groups account for the remaining portion. The ethnic Vietnamese inhabit a little less than half of ...
Rank Name Province Pop. Rank Name Province Pop. Ho Chi Minh City Hanoi: 1: Ho Chi Minh City: Municipality: 8,993,082: 11: Vinh: Nghệ An: 473,275 Haiphong Cần Thơ: 2
Currently, Vietnam has two cities classified as special urban areas by the government: Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. To support the authorities of these two cities in fulfilling their functions as special urban areas, the government allows Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City to benefit from certain specific financial and budgetary mechanisms. [4]
The following is a table of Vietnam's provinces broken down by population and area, according to the 2023 Census and the 2018 area data from Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Municipalities are written in bold.
The 2019 Vietnamese census, officially the 2019 Viet Nam Population and Housing Census (Vietnamese: Tổng điều tra dân số và nhà ở năm 2019, lit. 'Total investigation on the population and housing of the year 2019') was the fifth national census of Vietnam since the country's reunification, [1] and the eighth census conducted by the General Statistics Office of Vietnam. [2]
By 2050, the population will have increased to 25-27 million people, and the urbanized rate is estimated to rise to 90%. Constructed land will be 1800–2100 square kilometres by 2020. [1] Ho Chi Minh City will be the core urban center of the area while other surrounding cities and towns will play their role as satellite municipalities.
The population had grown significantly from the 1979 census, which showed the total population of reunified Vietnam to be 52.7 million. [374] According to the 2019 census, the country's population was 96,208,984. [2] Based on the 2019 census, 65.6% of the Vietnamese population live in rural areas while only 34.4% live in urban areas.