District-level town (thị xã), a type of second tier subdivision of Vietnam is divided into 713 units along with
urban district
Urban district may refer to:
* District
* Urban area
* Quarter (urban subdivision)
* Neighbourhood
Specific subdivisions in some countries:
* Urban districts of Denmark
* Urban districts of Germany
* Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland) (his ...
,
district
A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivision ...
,
municipal city
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
, and
provincial city have equal status. Also by virtue of Decree No. 42/2009/ND-CP, town are officially classified into Class-3 or Class-4.
The towns may only be a capital of a
province
A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions out ...
, but not of a
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality'' may also mean the ...
as the Second Tier unit. At the Third Tier, Town is divided into
wards and
communes.
Most provincial capitals were once towns, but now most of them have become provincial cities.
District level
In Vietnam, there are other kinds of district-level urban subdivision:
urban districts ( vi, quận), districts and
provincial cities. The
urban districts is within urban and only consists of
wards, but
provincial cities and towns can consist of the
wards (within urban) and
communes (within suburban). Towns are similar with
provincial cities, but towns are smaller than
provincial cities in population density. Moreover, municipality can includes towns (
Sơn Tây (Hanoi)
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), even
municipal cities.
The type town is categorized as urban and its residents is classified as urban population, although there may still be a part of residents living in agriculture. Main economical activities in town included industry, services and business.
Upgrade and downgrade
Regularly, a
commune-level town or township ( vi, thị trấn) can be upgraded to a district-level town or town ( vi, thị xã), and district-level towns can develop into
provincial cities.
But the district-level town can also be downgraded to a district capitals, especially when there is a merger of the provinces. That are the cases of the
An Lộc (provincial capital of former
Bình Long Province),
Sông Cầu (formerly the provincial capital of
Phú Yên Province) ...
Some district-level towns were downgraded into
commune-level towns for some time and then be re-established, as
Nghĩa Lộ,
Bắc Cạn,
Đồ Sơn (from 2007, became urban district of Đồ Sơn),
Phúc Yên
Phúc Yên is a city in Vĩnh Phúc Province in the Red River Delta region of Vietnam.Atlas of the World', Oxford University Press, 2011, p. 226. As of 2003 the district had a population of 83,352. The district covers an area of 120 km². ...
,
Hà Tiên
Hà Tiên is a Provincial city in Kiên Giang Province, Mekong Delta in Vietnam. Its area is and the population as of 2019 is 81,576. The city borders Cambodia to the west. Hà Tiên is a tourist site of the region thanks to its beaches and la ...
,
Vị Thanh,
Gia Nghĩa.
When a district-level town is downgraded, the urban become a
commune-level town, and the suburban is merged into other districts or established rural communes. Some district-level towns have become
commune-level towns and not re-established, so far as:
Đô Lương,
Tiên Yên,
Ninh Giang,
Cát Bà,
Vĩnh An of
Đồng Nai Province.
There is a rare case:
Phan Rang as district-level town is divided into two
commune-level towns,
Phan Rang and
Tháp Chàm in 1977. Each
commune-level town belonged to a county (
Ninh Hải and
An Sơn), and in 1981 the two
commune-level towns was merged and re-established as county-level town named
Phan Rang–Tháp Chàm (now as
provincial city).
Kiến An, a former district-level town, located in a municipality in
Hải Phòng
Haiphong ( vi, Hải Phòng, ), or Hải Phòng, is a major industrial city and the third-largest in Vietnam. Hai Phong is also the center of technology, economy, culture, medicine, education, science and trade in the Red River delta.
Haiphong ...
from 1962 to 1980, later downgraded into a
commune-level town and was recovered between from 1988 to 1994 and is now an
urban district
Urban district may refer to:
* District
* Urban area
* Quarter (urban subdivision)
* Neighbourhood
Specific subdivisions in some countries:
* Urban districts of Denmark
* Urban districts of Germany
* Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland) (his ...
of Hải Phòng.
Đồ Sơn ever (after 1994) was the only district-level town within a municipality (Hải Phòng), until September 12, 2007 it became the new
urban district
Urban district may refer to:
* District
* Urban area
* Quarter (urban subdivision)
* Neighbourhood
Specific subdivisions in some countries:
* Urban districts of Denmark
* Urban districts of Germany
* Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland) (his ...
of Hải Phòng.
Sơn Tây
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is a district-level town governed under
Hanoi
Hanoi or Ha Noi ( or ; vi, Hà Nội ) is the capital and second-largest city of Vietnam. It covers an area of . It consists of 12 urban districts, one district-leveled town and 17 rural districts. Located within the Red River Delta, Hanoi i ...
in the period 1978 to 1991, then merged into
Hà Tây Province. August 2007 this district-level town was upgraded into provincial city. In 2008
Hà Tây Province was merged into
Hanoi
Hanoi or Ha Noi ( or ; vi, Hà Nội ) is the capital and second-largest city of Vietnam. It covers an area of . It consists of 12 urban districts, one district-leveled town and 17 rural districts. Located within the Red River Delta, Hanoi i ...
, Sơn Tây was moved back into district-level town.
List of district-level towns
See also
*
Mueang
Mueang ( th, เมือง ''mɯ̄ang'', ), Muang ( lo, ເມືອງ ''mɯ́ang'', ; Tai Nuea: ᥛᥫᥒᥰ ''muang''), Mong ( shn, ''mə́ŋ'', ), Meng () or Mường (Vietnamese), were pre-modern semi-independent city-states or principali ...
References
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