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16-505: Sơn Tây ( listen ) 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 35 km 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

32-456: A city within a city , is a type of second tier subdivision of Vietnam along with urban district , district , town and provincial city , all of which have equal status. A municipal city is a satellite city of a municipality in Vietnam. Referring to local organizing governance's law which was approved by the thirteenth National Assembly on June 19, 2015, the term "municipal city"

48-528: 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. In Vietnam, there are other kinds of district-level urban subdivision: urban districts ( Vietnamese : quận ), districts ( huyện ), municipal city ( thành phố thuộc thành phố trực thuộc trung ương ) and provincial cities ( thành phố thuộc tỉnh ). The urban districts

64-499: 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)

80-510: 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

96-474: A general of the Saigon regime, was from Sơn Tây. The town of Sơn Tây occupies most of the district, and is subdivided in wards. Eight wards form the urban core, while Xuân Khanh, to the west, is a distant ward, discontinuous with the central area. The district also includes six rural communes: Cổ Đông, Đường Lâm, Kim Sơn, Sơn Đông, Thanh Mỹ, and Xuân Sơn. This article about a location in Hanoi , Vietnam

112-454: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . District-level town (Vietnam) A district-level town ( Vietnamese : thị xã ) 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

128-406: 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. 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

144-541: 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

160-415: 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 includes towns ( Sơn Tây (Hanoi) ), even municipal cities . The type town is categorized as urban and its residents

176-566: The Government's Office concluded that there would be a new expanded Hue City alongside Huong Thuy , Huong Tra , Phong Dien and other districts as satellites. Thua Thien-Hue Province is expected to become a municipality in 2021. In the meeting in July 2020, People's Council of Haiphong city announced that Thuy Nguyen would have a municipal city model before 2030. On 22 February 2022, Party Secretary of Hanoi city Đinh Tiến Dũng had

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192-578: 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

208-532: The main Hanoi—Sơn Tây carriageway which is expected to be completed in 2009. Sơn Tây is known for its thousand year old villages, such as Đường Lâm which retains a collection of vernacular architecture with buildings and temples built using laterite bricks. Và Temple, or Đông Cung, dedicated to Tản Viên , is located on a hill covered with ironwood trees in Vân Giã hamlet, Trung Hưng commune. Phạm Văn Đổng ,

224-734: The municipality's economic and 4 to 5 percent of the country's gross domestic product (GDP). The project was later also endorsed by prime minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc and guided to the next step. On August 12, 2016, Party Secretary of Hanoi city Hoàng Trung Hải had a meeting with Son Tay 's constituents after the fourteenth National Assembly's first session. At the meeting, Chief of Economic Division of Son Tay Phùng Huy Minh requested to re-establish Son Tay into second satellite city-within-city before 2030. On February 20, 2020, after Prime Minister of Vietnam Nguyễn Xuân Phúc worked with Thừa Thiên-Huế Province to deploy Politburo 's resolution numbered 54 to build and develop Thua Thien – Hue to 2030,

240-563: Was available from January 1, 2016. This entity was created to make a new "Urban Governance" project (or Urban Administration model) in Ho Chi Minh City and other cities. Ho Chi Minh City planned to merge 3 districts 2 , 9 , and Thủ Đức to create an innovation city or a city within city called Thủ Đức City , which is expected to be Vietnam's Silicon Valley. This new city would spread over 211 km and more than 1 million people, to contribute around 30 percent of

256-647: 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. Municipal city (Vietnam) A municipal city ( Vietnamese : Thành phố thuộc thành phố trực thuộc trung ương , lit.   'City that belongs to Municipality '), commonly known as

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