District-level town (Vietnam)

Administrative Units
of Vietnam
First Tier
Second Tier
Third Tier

On the Second Tier, Vietnam is divided into 713 units.[1] By virtue of Decree No. 42/2009/ND-CP, Town (Vietnamese: thị xã Chữ nôm:市社) are officially classified as Class III or Class IV.[2] Urban District (Vietnamese: quận Chữ nôm: (郡)), together with Provincial City (thành phố trực thuộc tỉnh), Town (thị xã) and Rural District (huyện) have an equal status under the Second Tier units.

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 Ward (phường) and Commune (xã).

District level

In Vietnam, there are other kinds of district-level urban subdivisiona: urban districts (Vietnamese: 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. Moreover, municipality can include town (Sơn Tây (Hanoi)), but can not include provincial cities.

The type town is categorized as urban and its residents is classified as urban population, although there may still be a part of residents living in agriculture. Main economical activities in town included industry, services and business.

Upgrade and downgrade

Regularly, a commune-level town or township (Vietnamese: thị trấn) can be upgraded to a district-level town or town (Vietnamese: thị xã), and district-level towns can develop into provincial cities.

But the district-level town can also be downgraded to a district capitals, especially when there is a merger of the provinces. That are the cases of the An Lộc (provincial capital of former Bình Long Province), Sông Cầu (formerly the provincial capital of Phú Yên Province) ...

Some district-level towns were downgraded into commune-level towns for some time and then be re-established, as Nghĩa Lộ, Bắc Cạn, Đồ Sơn (from 2007, became urban district of Đồ Sơn), Phúc Yên, Hà Tiên, Vị Thanh, Gia Nghĩa.

When a district-level town is downgraded, the urban become a commune-level town, and the suburban is merged into other districts or established rural communes. Some district-level towns have become commune-level towns and not re-established, so far as: Đô Lương, Tiên Yên, Ninh Giang, Cát Bà, Vĩnh An of Đồng Nai Province.

There is a rare case: Phan Rang as district-level town is divided into two commune-level towns, Phan Rang and Tháp Chàm in 1977. Each commune-level town belonged to a county (Ninh Hải and An Sơn), and in 1981 the two commune-level towns was merged and re-established as county-level town named Phan Rang–Tháp Chàm (now as provincial city).

Kiến An, a former district-level town, located in a municipality in Hải Phòng from 1962 to 1980, later downgraded into a commune-level town and was recovered between from 1988 to 1994 and is now an urban district of Hải Phòng.

Đồ Sơn ever (after 1994) was the only district-level town within a municipality (Hải Phòng), until September 12, 2007 it became the new urban district of Hải Phòng.

Sơn Tây is a district-level town governed under Hanoi in the period 1978 to 1991, then merged into Hà Tây Province. August 2007 this district-level town was upgraded into provincial city. In 2008 Hà Tây Province was merged into Hanoi, Sơn Tây was moved back into district-level town.

List of district-level towns

No.NameProvince/Centrall-controlled municipalityUrban levelYear became county-level townPopulation (person)Area (km2)
1An KhêGia Lai4200363.118199,12
2An NhơnBình Định42011178,817242.64
3Ayun PaGia Lai4200735.058287
4Ba ĐồnQuảng Bình42013115.196163.18
4Bắc KạnBắc Kạn4199029.277131,95
5Bỉm SơnThanh Hóa4198156.89366,88
6Bình LongBình Phước3200960.233126,29
7Bình MinhVĩnh Long4201295.28593,62
8Buôn HồĐắk Lắk42008101.554282,06
9Cửa LòNghệ An3199455.00028
10Chí LinhHải Dương42010164.837281,09
11Dĩ AnBình Dương42011297,43560.1
12Đồng XoàiBình Phước3199971.200169,6
13Gia NghĩaĐắk Nông4200535.55986,64
14Gò CôngTiền Giang4198797.709102
15Hà TiênKiên Giang4199839.95788,5
16Hoàng MaiNghệ An42013105.105169,75
17Hồng LĩnhHà Tĩnh4199236.80558,55
18Hồng NgựĐồng Tháp4200974.569122,16
19Kiến TườngLong An4201364.589204,28
20Hương ThủyThừa Thiên–Huế4201096.525458,17
21Hương TràThừa Thiên–Huế42011118.354518,53
22La GiBình Thuận42005112.558182,82
23Lai ChâuLai Châu4200418.08970,8
24Long KhánhĐồng Nai42003181.242195
25Mường LayĐiện Biên4197114.379114,03
26Ngã BảyHậu Giang4200561.02478,9
27Nghĩa LộYên Bái4199526.00029,66
28Ninh HòaKhánh Hòa42010233.5581197,77
29Phú ThọPhú Thọ4190362.00064,5
30Phúc YênVĩnh Phúc42003104.092120,29
31Phước LongBình Phước3200950.019118,83
32Quảng TrịQuảng Trị4198922.76044,03
33Quảng YênQuảng Ninh42011139.596314,2
34Sa ĐécĐồng Tháp31785103.64657,86
35Sầm SơnThanh Hóa4198151.41718
36Sông CầuPhú Yên42009101.521489,28
37Sông CôngThái Nguyên4198544.44483,64
38Sơn TâyHà Nội31903181.831113,5
39Tam ĐiệpNinh Bình4198253.649110,9
40Tân ChâuAn Giang42009184.129175,7
41Tây NinhTây Ninh4before 1975130.008140
42Thái HòaNghệ An4200766.000135
43Từ SơnBắc Ninh42008143.84361,33
44Vĩnh Châu[3]Sóc Trăng42011163.918473,4

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