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The Vietnamese government often groups the various provinces and municipalities into three regions: Northern Vietnam, Central Vietnam, and Southern Vietnam.These regions can be further subdivided into eight subregions: Northeast Vietnam, Northwest Vietnam, the Red River Delta, the North Central Coast, the South Central Coast, the Central Highlands, Southeast Vietnam, and the Mekong River Delta.
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.
Regions of Vietnam Topographic map of Vietnam. Vietnam is located on the eastern margin of the Indochinese peninsula and occupies about 331,211.6 square kilometres (127,881.5 sq mi), of which about 25% was under cultivation in 1987. It borders the Gulf of Tonkin, Gulf of Thailand, and Pacific Ocean, along with China, Laos, and Cambodia.
The District and Street names of Vietnam's cities have been fluid in recent history. The French gave French names to most of the streets of Hanoi, Saigon and other major cities, often ignorant of existing Vietnamese names. When French control of Vietnam ended in 1954, these names were replaced in both the North and the South. [7]
Vietnam, [e] [f] officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, [g] [h] is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about 331,000 square kilometres (128,000 sq mi) and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country.
Municipalities, Cities, & Towns in Vietnam Municipalities : red (special class), pink (class 1) Municipal cities : green (class 1), purple (class 2), brown (class 3)
List of cities in Venezuela List of cities in Vietnam. List of cities in Vanuatu - Republic of Vanuatu; Vatican City; List of cities in Venezuela - Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela; List of cities in Vietnam - Socialist Republic of Vietnam; List of cities in the Virgin Islands - United States Virgin Islands (US overseas territory)
Commune level: ward (phường) in major urban areas (under urban districts, cities or towns), township (thị trấn) for stand-alone townlets and commune (xã) for rural areas; Administrative subdivisions of Vietnam since 2016