4-453: Lục Yên is a rural district of Yên Bái province , in the Northeast region of Vietnam . As of 2019, the district had a population of 108,817. The district covers an area of 811 km. The district capital lies at Yên Thế . Numerous quarries in the district produce gemstones such as rubies , spinel , and tourmaline . Lục Yên is divided into 24 commune-level sub-divisions, including
8-422: The 15th century. Prior to 1945 the huyện ( chữ Hán : 縣 ) was also called district and earlier "sub-prefecture" of the prefectures, or phủ into which provinces were previously divided. The administrative reorganization by Minh Mạng of Nguyen dynasty in 1832 did not substantially affect the position of the huyện, but concentrated administration of the level above the huyện, the phủ under new larger unit of
12-457: The other types being urban districts ( Vietnamese : quận ), provincial cities ( thành phố trực thuộc tỉnh ), municipal cities ( thành phố thuộc thành phố trực thuộc trung ương ), and district-level towns ( thị xã ). The districts are subdivisions of the first-tier divisions, namely the provinces and municipalities . Districts are subdivided into third-tier units, namely townships and communes . The districts existed since
16-671: The township of Yên Thế and 23 rural communes (An Lạc, An Phú, Động Quan, Khai Trung, Khánh Hòa, Khánh Thiện, Lâm Thượng, Liễu Đô, Mai Sơn, Minh Chuẩn, Mường Lai, Minh Tiến, Phan Thanh, Phúc Lợi, Tân Lập, Tân Lĩnh, Tân Phượng, Tô Mậu, Trúc Lâu, Trung Tâm, Vĩnh Lạc, Minh Xuân, Yên Thắng). This article about a location in Yên Bái Province , Vietnam is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Huy%E1%BB%87n Districts ( Vietnamese : huyện ), also known as rural districts or counties , are one of several types of second-tier administrative subdivisions of Vietnam ,
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