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In Vietnam

Vietnam

Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...

, there are three kinds of the third-level (commune-level) administrative subdivision: the rural coummune , commune-level town

Commune-level town (Vietnam)

|A commune-level town is a third-level administrative subdivision of Vietnam. Commune-level towns are subdivisions of counties , which are in turn subdivisions of provinces ....

 ，and ward .

The ward is a kind of urban administrative subdivision, subordinates to the county-level town

County-level town (Vietnam)

|The county-level town is a kind of second level administrative units in Vietnam, under the governed by the province or the central-controlled municipality. County-level towns are officially categorized as Class III or Class IV of urban regions by Vietnam government. In July 2010, Vietnam has 45...

 or the provincial city

Provincial city (Vietnam)

The provincial city is a form of second-level administrative units in Vietnam. Provincial cities are provincial urban and administrative centers. Some cities also was appointed provincial economic centers and the culture center of a region . There might still agricultural population in the...

 or the urban district

Urban district (Vietnam)

|The urban district is the second-level administrative subdivision in Vietnam. Other kinds of second-level administrative subdivision of Vietnam are the county , the provincial cities , and the county-level towns ....

 of central-controlled municipality. Currently, for management the urban areas and associating families, each ward is divided into neighborhoods , the neighborhoods is the organization of population.

Till December 31, 2008, Vietnam had 1,327 wards. In which, Ho Chi Minh City has 259 wards and Hanoi has 147 wards.