Vĩnh Châu is a
district-level town
A district-level town () 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. Also by virtue of Decree No. 42/2009/ND-CP, towns a ...
(''thị xã'') of
Sóc Trăng province
Sóc Trăng (, ) was a former province in the Mekong Delta of Southern Vietnam, with its capital in Sóc Trăng. The province occupies an area of and has a population of approximately 1,213,400.
Etymology
Sóc Trăng was known as Ba Xuyên du ...
in the
Mekong Delta
The Mekong Delta ( or simply ), also known as the Western Region () or South-western region (), is the list of regions of Vietnam, region in southwestern Vietnam where the Mekong, Mekong River River delta, approaches and empties into the sea th ...
region of
Vietnam
Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's List of countries and depende ...
. On August 25, 2011, Vĩnh Châu became a town and had a population of 163,918.
The town covers an area of 473 km
2.
Administrative divisions
* 4 phường (wards):
**Phường 1
**Phường 2
**Khánh Hoà
**Vĩnh Phước
* 6 xã (communes):
** Hoà Đông
** Lạc Hoà
** Lai Hoà
** Vĩnh Hải
** Vĩnh Hiệp
** Vĩnh Tân
References
Districts of Sóc Trăng province
County-level towns in Vietnam
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