Lương Sơn (
Mươ̒ng: Xa̭ Lương Xơn,
Kinh
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: Xã Lương Sơn) is a
commune of
Phú Thọ province
Phú Thọ is a Provinces of Vietnam, province in Đông Bắc, northern Vietnam. Its capital is Việt Trì, which is from Hanoi and from Noi Bai International Airport, Nội Bài International Airport. The province covers an area of and, as ...
in the
Northern Midlands and Mountains region of
Vietnam
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.
History
On April 17, 2025, to meet the urgent needs of the ''
Policy to Arrange and Merge Administrative Units'' by the
Government of Vietnam
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, the
Hòa Bình Provincial People's Committee have promoted an extraordinary conference.
The result of the conference was a Resolution on the dissolution of all
rural-district level administrative unit
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s in the whole province, followed by another Resolution on the merging of
communes
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* Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township
** Communes of ...
and the establishment of new communes with their new names.
According to the political document officially published for the
media
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, Lương Sơn township (Thi̭ chấn Lương Xơn, thị trấn Lương Sơn) was also dissolved. Its entire area and demography have been merged with the same ones of :
*A part of former Cao Sơn.
*Four former communes Hòa Sơn, Lâm Sơn, Nhuận Trạch, and Tân Vinh.
This new administrative unit is called as Lương Sơn commune (xa̭ Lương Xơn, xã Lương Sơn), what inherits most of the cultural and historical heritage of the former rural-district level. Lương Sơn commune is directly under the management of new
Phú Thọ province
Phú Thọ is a Provinces of Vietnam, province in Đông Bắc, northern Vietnam. Its capital is Việt Trì, which is from Hanoi and from Noi Bai International Airport, Nội Bài International Airport. The province covers an area of and, as ...
.
See also
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Cao Dương
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Chương Mỹ
Chương Mỹ ɨəŋ˧˧:miʔi˧˥is a ward of Hà Nội, the capital city, in the Red River Delta region of Vietnam. History
On April 19, 2025, to response the ''Plan to arrange and merge administrative units in Vietnam 2024–2025'' by the Gove ...
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Liên Sơn
*
Mai Châu
Notes and references
Notes
References
Further reading
Bibliography
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George Coedes
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. ''The Making of South East Asia'', 2nd ed.
University of California
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Press, 1983.
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Trần Ngọc Thêm. ''Cơ sở văn hóa Việt Nam'' (The Foundation of Vietnamese Culture), 504 pages. Publishing by Nhà xuất bản Đại học Tổng hợp TPHCM.
Saigon
Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) ('','' TP.HCM; ), commonly known as Saigon (; ), is the most populous city in Vietnam with a population of around 14 million in 2025.
The city's geography is defined by rivers and canals, of which the largest is Saigo ...
,
Vietnam
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, 1995.
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Trần Quốc Vượng, Tô Ngọc Thanh, Nguyễn Chí Bền, Lâm Mỹ Dung, Trần Thúy Anh.
Cơ sở văn hóa Việt Nam' (The Basis of Vietnamese Culture), 292 pages. Re-publishing by Nhà xuất bản Giáo Dục Việt Nam & Quảng Nam Printing Co-Ltd.
Hanoi
Hanoi ( ; ; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Vietnam, second-most populous city of Vietnam. The name "Hanoi" translates to "inside the river" (Hanoi is bordered by the Red River (Asia), Red and Black River (Asia), Black Riv ...
,
Vietnam
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, 2006.
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Li Tana (2011). ''Jiaozhi (Giao Chỉ) in the Han period Tongking Gulf''. In Cooke, Nola ; Li Tana ; Anderson, James A. (eds.). The Tongking Gulf Through History. University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 39–44. ISBN 9780812205022.
*''Tập bản đồ hành chính Việt Nam'' (Vietnamese Administrative Maps), Nhà xuất bản Tài nguyên – Môi trường và Bản đồ Việt Nam, Hà Nội, 2013.
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Li Tana,
Towards an environmental history of the Eastern Red River Delta, Vietnam, c.900–1400',
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
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, 2014.
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Samuel Baron,
Christoforo Borri,
Olga Dror,
Keith W. Taylor (2018). ''Views of Seventeenth-Century Vietnam : Christoforo Borri on Cochinchina and Samuel Baron on Tonkin''. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-1-501-72090-1.
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External links
List of names of 46 communes and wards in Hòa Bình Province after arrangement(''in Vietnamese'')
{{Hoa Binh Province
Communes of Phú Thọ province
Populated places in Phú Thọ province
Populated places in Hòa Bình province