Sông Cầu is a town (''thị xã'') of
Phú Yên province in the
South Central Coast
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region of
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.
After the
Vietnam War
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, Sông Cầu was merged into
Đồng Xuân District in 1976. The latter was then combined with
Tuy An District to become Xuân An District in March 1977, but Xuân An was soon split again into the two previous districts in September 1978. Sông Cầu Township was the seat for those districts. On 27 June 1985, Sông Cầu District was split from Đồng Xuân District.
[(Vietnamese]
History of Sông Cầu
/ref> On 28 August 2009, Sông Cầu District was upgraded to town status.[(Vietnamese]
The foundation of Sông Cầu Town
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Sông Cầu is subdivided into 4 wards (phường): Xuân Yên, Xuân Phú, Xuân Thành and Xuân Đài, and 10 communes (xã): Xuân Thọ 1, Xuân Thọ 2, Xuân Lâm, Xuân Phương, Xuân Thịnh, Xuân Cảnh, Xuân Hoà, Xuân Bình, Xuân Lộc and Xuân Hải. At the time of establishment (2009) it had a population of 101,521 and covered an area of 489.28 km².
References
Districts of Phú Yên province
County-level towns in Vietnam
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