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Sơn Tây, Hanoi
__NOTOC__ Sơn Tây () is a district-level town ("thị xã") in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. It was the capital of Sơn Tây province before merging with Hà Đông province to form Hà Tây province in 1965. Sơn Tây lies west of the capital Hanoi. It had a city status in Hà Tây province. However, when Hà Tây was absorbed into Hanoi, Sơn Tây was demoted from a city to a town. It is often referred to as “soldier town” due to the proliferation of army barracks and military institutions that surrounds the town, including the Vietnamese People's Army Infantry Academy. Sơn Tây's future is seen as being very much that of a satellite city of Hanoi and as a result there are plans to relocate universities and other public facilities to Sơn Tây where land is cheaper and more plentiful. The government has planned to complete this project by duplicating the main Hanoi—Sơn Tây carriageway which is expected to be completed in 2009. History File:SonTay.jpg, Sơn T� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
District-level Town (Vietnam)
A district-level town () is a type of second tier subdivision of Vietnam. District-level towns along with urban districts, districts, municipal cities, and provincial cites have equal status. Also by virtue of Decree No. 42/2009/ND-CP, towns 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 subdivision. At the third tier, towns are 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 (), districts (''huyện''), municipal city (''thành phố thuộc thành phố trực thuộc trung ương'') and provincial cities (''thành phố thuộc tỉnh''). 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |