Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 (), rural districts and urban districts ().
On the first tier, Vietnam is divided into 58 provinces (Vietnamese: tỉnh) and 5 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.
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 five centrally controlled municipalities.
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)
(Trung Bộ, Trung Kỳ, Trung Phần, Miền Trung) North Central (Bắc Trung Bộ) Hà Tĩnh; Nghệ An; Quảng Bình; Quảng Trị; Thanh Hóa; Thừa Thiên Huế; 51,455.6 11,426,000 203.53 Contains the coastal provinces in the northern half of Vietnam's narrow central part. They all stretch from the coast in the east to Laos in the west.
A municipal city (Vietnamese: Thành phố thuộc thành phố trực thuộc trung ương, lit. 'City that belongs to Municipality'), commonly known as a city within a city, [1] is a type of second tier subdivision of Vietnam along with urban district, district, town and provincial city, all of which have equal status.
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]
A district-level town (Vietnamese: thị xã) is a type of second tier subdivision of Vietnam.District-level towns along with urban districts, districts, municipal cities, and provincial cites have equal status. [1]