kolej-i-drogi: Da Lat

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Da Lat, or Dalat (Vietnamese: Đà Lạt; Vietnamese pronunciation: [ɗâː làːt̚] ), is a former city in Vietnam and the former capital of Lâm Đồng Province. It is the largest city of the Central Highlands region in Vietnam but ceased to exist as a municipal city on 1 July 2025, following the elimination of district-level units in Vietnam. The city is located 1,500 m (4,900 ft) above sea level on the Langbiang Plateau. Da Lat is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Vietnam. Da Lat's specific sights are pine woods and twisting roads full of marigold (Vietnamese: hoa dã quỳ) and mimosa blossom in the winter. The city's highland tropical climate stands in contrast to Southern Vietnam's ot…

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Vinh (Vietnamese: [viŋ̟] ) is a former city located in the North Central Coast region of Vietnam and was the capital city of Nghệ An province, Vietnam. Vinh also is an economic and cultural center of the country's North-Central region. The city's name "Vinh" currently refers to a 166.22 square kilometres (64.18 sq mi) area, comprising an urban agglomeration of 6 wards, including Trường Vinh, Thành Vinh, Vinh Hưng, Vinh Phú, Vinh Lộc, and Cửa Lò. On September 5, 2008, it was upgraded from a Grade-II city to a Grade-I city, becoming the fourth city to hold the status, after Haiphong, Đà Nẵng and Huế. Vinh is located in the Southeast of Nghe An, alongside the Lam River and is located on the ma…

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The Republic of Vietnam (RVN; Vietnamese: Việt Nam Cộng hòa, VNCH), commonly known as South Vietnam, was a country in Southeast Asia that existed from 1955 to 1975. It first garnered recognition in 1949 as the associated State of Vietnam within the French Union, with its capital at Saigon. Since 1950, it was a member of the Western Bloc during the Cold War. Following the 1954 partition of Vietnam, it became known as South Vietnam and was established as a republic in 1955. Although South Vietnam failed to gain admission into the United Nations as a result of a Soviet veto in 1957, its sovereignty was recognized by 95 countries as of January 1975. It was succeeded by the communist-controlled…

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A commune (Vietnamese: xã) is a type of second tier subdivision of Vietnam. It is divided into 2,621 units. Communes have a lower status than provinces and centrally-governed city. This subdivision has existed since 1428, when Emperor Lê Thái Tổ re-organised the country into five administrative levels. Xã 社 was the lowest level, equivalent to a village. Since 2019, Vietnam has undertaken a comprehensive rearrangement of administrative units in order to streamline the apparatus of local authorities. The re-organisation, conducted in two periods, between 2020 and 2023 and between 2023 and 2030, comprises forced mergers of several districts and commune-level administrative units and localities…

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Until July 2025, the provinces of Vietnam were subdivided into second-level administrative units, namely districts (Vietnamese: huyện), provincial cities (thành phố trực thuộc tỉnh), and district-level towns (thị xã). The centrally-controlled municipalities (the other first-level division, in addition to provinces) were subdivided into rural districts (huyện), district-level towns, and urban districts (quận) that are further subdivided into wards (phường). The district (huyện) unit dated from the 15th century. This article lists all second-level administrative units as of when they were abolished, grouped by the province that they belonged to at that time. Cities, municipal cities and towns…

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Districts (Vietnamese: huyện), also known as rural districts or counties, were one of several types of former second-tier administrative subdivisions of Vietnam, 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 were subdivisions of the first-tier divisions, namely the provinces and municipalities. Districts were subdivided into third-tier units, namely townships and communes. Districts and the whole second-tier of administrative subdivisions of Vietnam were eliminated in 2025, following a major governmental reform.

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As part of broader institutional reforms in 2024 and 2025, the Communist Party and Government of Vietnam announced the Plan to Arrange and Merge Administrative Units (Vietnamese: Phương án sắp xếp và sáp nhập đơn vị hành chính, lit. 'Project for [re]organising and merging administrative units'). As part of the re-organisation, district-level units were to be eliminated and the number of local government units at the provincial and communal levels were to be reduced by around 50%. A constitutional amendment will be required to eliminate the district level of local authorities. It is also considered a transition period to revise the Vietnamese constitution and legal system. On 1 July 2025, Vi…

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Hội An (Vietnamese: [hoi˨˩ˀ an˧] ) is a former city of Quảng Nam Province in Central Vietnam. Hội An Old Town has been registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1999 and is recognized as a well-preserved former site of a once-thriving Southeast Asian trading port dating from the 15th–19th century. Prior to Vietnam's 2025 administrative reforms, Hội An was a Class-3 provincial city of the former Quảng Nam Province, which was merged into the city of Da Nang, a direct-controlled municipality of Vietnam. Along with the Cù Lao Chàm archipelago, it is part of the Cù Lao Chàm-Hội An Biosphere Reserve, designated in 2009. In 2023, Hội An was registered in the UNESCO Creative Cities Network l…

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The Diocese of Đà Lat (Latin: Dioecesis Dalatensis) is a Latin suffragan diocese of Roman Catholic church in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan of the Archdiocese of Saigon in southern Vietnam, yet depends on the missionary Dicastery for Evangelization. Its cathedral episcopal see is Cathedral of Saint Nicholas of Bari, in the southern city of Da Lat, Lâm Đồng Province, Central Highlands. Its present Bishop is Dominic Nguyễn Văn Mạnh, since September 16, 2019.

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Lâm Đồng is a province of Vietnam located in the south of the South Central Coast and Central Highlands. It borders Khánh Hòa to the east, Đồng Nai and Hồ Chí Minh City to the southwest, the South China Sea to the southeast, Đắk Lắk to the north, and Cambodia to the northwest. The three highest plateaus of the Central Highlands: Lâm Viên, Di Linh, and Bảo Lộc (formerly known as B'Lao), are located in Lâm Đồng province at an elevation of 1,500 meters above sea level. The provincial capital, Đà Lạt City, is situated 300 km northeast of Ho Chi Minh City, 658 km south of Đà Nẵng, and 1,414 km from the capital, Hanoi, via National Route 1. In 2010, Lâm Đồng became the first province in the Centr…

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Reorganization and Streamlining of Commune-Level Administrative Units in Ben Tre Province, Vietnam. In recent years, Ben Tre province has systematically and comprehensively implemented Resolution No. 18-NQ/TW, issued on October 25, 2017, at the Sixth Plenum of the 12th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam. This resolution sets an important goal of innovating and restructuring the political system to be streamlined, effective, and efficient. This article comprehensively analyzes the strategy for restructuring and streamlining commune-level administrative units in Ben Tre province. The authors clarify the current status over the past years and examine the impacts and challenges…

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Administrative Reform as Institutional Purge: Evidence from Vietnam. We argue that administrative reforms can operate as institutional purges in authoritarian states. We conceptualize administrative units as institutionalized platforms through which authoritarian rulers anchor and distribute political resources. We develop a formal model in which the ruler chooses among retention, personnel purge, and institutional purge. The model predicts that centrally embedded units are less likely to be erased because their destruction imposes coalition costs, while local factionalism increases purge risk mainly when local organization is weakly tied to central elite networks. Empirically, we test thes…