Phan Rí Cửa is a
township
A township is a form of human settlement or administrative subdivision. Its exact definition varies among countries.
Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, this tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Canad ...
of
Tuy Phong District,
Bình Thuận Province.
Etymology
The name ''Phan Rí'' is a
Vietnamese
Vietnamese may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to Vietnam, a country in Southeast Asia
* Vietnamese people, or Kinh people, a Southeast Asian ethnic group native to Vietnam
** Overseas Vietnamese, Vietnamese people living outside Vietna ...
transliteration of the
Cham
Cham or CHAM may refer to:
Ethnicities and languages
*Chams, people in Vietnam and Cambodia
**Cham language, the language of the Cham people
***Cham script
*** Cham (Unicode block), a block of Unicode characters of the Cham script
* Cham Albani ...
word ''Panrik''; while ''Cửa'' is a Vietnamese word that, in this context, means 'port'.
History
Phan Rí Cửa was the capital of
Principality of Thuận Thành in the past.
After 1975, Phan Ri Cửa was a commune of
Bắc Bình district
Bắc Bình is a huyện, rural district of Bình Thuận province in the Southeast (Vietnam), Southeast region of Vietnam. As of 2019 the district had a population of 129,374. The district covers an area of 1,079 km2. The district capital li ...
. On March 13, 1979, Vietnamese government upgraded Phan Rí Cửa commune into Phan Ri Cửa township.
On December 30, 1982, Bắc Binh district was divided into two districts, Bắc Bình and
Tuy Phong, Phan Ri Cửa township belonged to Tuy Phong district.
On December 16, 2011, the
Ministry of Construction recognized Phan Ri Cửa township as a Class-4 urban area.
On November 21, 2019, the township annexed the rural commune of Hòa Phú.
References
Populated places in Bình Thuận province
Townships in Vietnam
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