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Kiến Tường
Kiến Tường is a district-level town in Long An Province, Vietnam. The administrative area is centered around a town called Mộc Hóa. Its population in 2013 was reported to be 64,589. Geography Kiến Tường is located about west of Ho Chi Minh City, on the in the heart of the Đồng Tháp Mười wetland. It covers an area of , and borders the districts of Mộc Hóa to the east, Tân Thạnh to the south, Tân Hưng to the west and Vĩnh Hưng to the northwest. To its north is Kampong Rou District of Svay Rieng Province in Cambodia. Climate History The town of Kiến Tường was originally known as Mộc Hóa, and the general area has been continuously inhabited since the 18th century. On 22 October 1956, the government of South Vietnam established the province of Kiến Tường with Mộc Hóa as its capital. After the Fall of Saigon, this province was incorporated into Long An Province in 1976. The town of Mộc Hóa and surrounding areas were split f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
District-level Town (Vietnam)
District-level town (thị xã), a type of second tier subdivision of Vietnam is divided into 713 units along with urban district, district, municipal city, 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, but not of a municipality 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. Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Vietnam
South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam ( vi, Việt Nam Cộng hòa), was a state in Southeast Asia that existed from 1955 to 1975, the period when the southern portion of Vietnam was a member of the Western Bloc during part of the Cold War after the 1954 Geneva Conference, 1954 division of Vietnam. It first received Diplomatic recognition, international recognition in 1949 as the State of Vietnam within the French Union, with its capital at Saigon (renamed to Ho Chi Minh City in 1976), before becoming a republic in 1955. South Vietnam was bordered by North Vietnam to the north, Kingdom of Laos, Laos to the northwest, Khmer Republic, Cambodia to the southwest, and Thailand across the Gulf of Thailand to the southwest. Its sovereignty was recognized by the United States and 87 other nations, though it failed to gain admission into the United Nations as a result of a Soviet veto in 1957. It was succeeded by the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Populated Places In Long An Province
Population typically refers to the number of people in a single area, whether it be a city or town, region, country, continent, or the world. Governments typically quantify the size of the resident population within their jurisdiction using a census, a process of collecting, analysing, compiling, and publishing data regarding a population. Perspectives of various disciplines Social sciences In sociology and population geography, population refers to a group of human beings with some predefined criterion in common, such as location, race, ethnicity, nationality, or religion. Demography is a social science which entails the statistical study of populations. Ecology In ecology, a population is a group of organisms of the same species who inhabit the same particular geographical area and are capable of interbreeding. The area of a sexual population is the area where inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Districts Of Long An Province
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, subdivisions of municipalities, school district, or political district. By country/region Afghanistan In Afghanistan, a district (Persian ps, ولسوالۍ ) is a subdivision of a province. There are almost 400 districts in the country. Australia Electoral districts are used in state elections. Districts were also used in several states as cadastral units for land titles. Some were used as squatting districts. New South Wales had several different types of districts used in the 21st century. Austria In Austria, the word is used with different meanings in three different contexts: * Some of the tasks of the administrative branch of the national and regional governments are fulfilled by the 95 district administrative offices (). The area a dist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tân Thạnh District, Long An Province
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Bình Tân (commune)
Bình Tân may refer to several places in Vietnam, including: * Bình Tân District, Ho Chi Minh City, an urban district of Ho Chi Minh City * Bình Tân District, Vĩnh Long Province, a rural district of Vĩnh Long Province * Bình Tân, La Gi, a ward of La Gi, Bình Thuận Province * Bình Tân, Đắk Lắk, a ward of Buôn Hồ * Bình Tân, Long An, a commune of Kiến Tường * Bình Tân, Bắc Bình, a commune of Bắc Bình District, Bình Thuận Province * Bình Tân, Quảng Ngãi, a commune of Bình Sơn District * Bình Tân, Tiền Giang, a commune of Gò Công Tây District * Bình Tân, Bình Phước, a commune of Phú Riềng District * Bình Tân, Bình Định, a commune of Tây Sơn District T, or t, is the twentieth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''tee'' (pronounced ), plural ''tees''. It is de ... See also * Bì ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rural Commune (Vietnam)
A commune (xã) is a type of third tier subdivision of Vietnam. It is divided into 11,162 units along with wards and townships, which have an equal status. Communes have a lower status than provincial cities, towns or districts. Facts Certain small villages are not officially regarded as administrative communes. As of December 31, 2008, Vietnam had 9,111 communes. Thanh Hoá Province contained the highest number of communes (586) amongst all province-level administrative units, followed by Nghệ An Province with 436 and Hanoi with 408. Đà Nẵng, with only 11 communes, contained the fewest. Counted together, the ten province-level administrative units containing the most communes—namely, Thanh Hoá (586), Nghệ An (436), Hanoi (408), Thái Bình (267), Phú Thọ (251), Hà Tĩnh (238), Hải Dương (234), Quảng Nam (210), Bắc Giang (207), and Lạng Sơn (207)—contain one-third of all the communes in Vietnam. Three of these are located in the Red River D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ward (Vietnam)
Ward (phường), a type of third tier subdivision of Vietnam is divided into 11,162 units along with township and commune have equal status. Wards are subordinate to urban district, city or town as the Third Tier unit. Currently, to manage the urban areas and their associating families, each ward is divided into neighborhoods ( vi, khu phố), with each neighborhood the most basic organization of population. Ho Chi Minh City has 259 wards and 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 ... has 177 wards. References {{Subdivisions of Vietnam Subdivisions of Vietnam Vietnam 3 Ward, Vietnam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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