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According to the census results of April 1, 2023, the population of Vietnam was 103,403,000. [2] The most populous top-level administrative unit is Hồ Chí Minh City, one of the five centrally governed cities, having 9,125,000 people living within its official boundary.
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.
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).
Vietnam People's Army is organised into 8 military regions: High Command of Capital Hanoi (Bộ Tư lệnh Thủ đô Hà Nội) in Ha Noi; 1st Military Region (Vietnam People's Army) (Quân khu 1) in Northeast; 2nd Military Region (Vietnam People's Army) (Quân khu 2) in Northwest; 3rd Military Region (Vietnam People's Army) (Quân khu 3) in ...
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 ).
Tây Ninh province served as a major terminus of the Ho Chi Minh trail during the Vietnam War, and in 1969 the Viet Cong captured Tây Ninh town and held it for several days. During the period of conflict between Cambodia and Vietnam in the late 1970s, the Khmer Rouge launched a number of cross-border raids into Tây Ninh province and committed ...
Since 2019, Vietnam has undertaken a comprehensive rearrangement of administrative units in order to streamline the apparatus of local authorities. [2] The re-organisation, conducted in two periods, between 2020 and 2023 and between 2023 and 2030, comprises forced mergers of several districts and commune-level administrative units and localities.
It is the smallest province of Vietnam by area and is situated to the east of the nation's capital, Hanoi, and borders Bắc Giang province, Hưng Yên province, Hải Dương province and Hanoi. The province covers an area of 822.71 km 2 (317.65 sq mi) [ 2 ] and as of 2022 it had a population of 1.488.250. [ 3 ]