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13-749: Hiệp Hòa District borders to the north with Tân Yên district , to the south with Yên Phong district , to the east with Việt Yên town , and to the west with Thái Nguyên province and Sóc Sơn district of Hanoi . Land type varies and is suitable for different types of agriculture; the district also supports industry. The district is divided into one township ( thị trấn ) Thắng , and 25 communes (xã): Bắc Lý , Châu Minh , Đại Thành , Danh Thắng , Đoan Bái , Đông Lỗ , Đồng Tân , Đức Thắng , Hòa Sơn , Hoàng An , Hoàng Lương , Hoàng Thanh , Hoàng Vân , Hợp Thịnh , Hùng Sơn , Hương Lâm , Lương Phong , Mai Đình , Mai Trung , Ngọc Sơn , Quang Minh , Thái Sơn , Thanh Vân , Thường Thắng , and Xuân Cẩm . Hiệp Hòa

26-595: A post office in the commune cultural center. Many households and every village have a telephone. Daily newspapers and magazines enjoy good circulation. The 2006 district population was more than 300,000 people; people of labor age total 133,650 people or 44.8% of the population. The proportion of agricultural workers, though still large, has been reduced as industrialization and the development of industrial parks continues apace. 21°19′59″N 105°58′01″E  /  21.333°N 105.967°E  / 21.333; 105.967 Vi%E1%BB%87t Y%C3%AAn Việt Yên

39-528: 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

52-499: 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)

65-510: 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

78-538: A location in Bắc Giang province , Vietnam is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . District-level town 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

91-773: Is a district-level town ( thị xã ) of Bắc Giang province in the Northeast region of Vietnam . Việt Yên borders on the south with Bắc Ninh province ; on the west with Hiệp Hòa district ; on the east with Yên Dũng district ; and on the north with Tân Yên district and Bắc Giang City. The town is divided into 9 wards: Bích Động (capital), Hồng Thái , Nếnh , Ninh Sơn , Quang Châu , Quảng Minh , Tăng Tiến , Tự Lạn , and Vân Trung , and 8 communes: Hương Mai , Minh Đức , Nghĩa Trung , Thượng Lan , Tiên Sơn , Trung Sơn , Vân Hà , and Việt Tiến . 21°16′21″N 106°06′01″E  /  21.2726°N 106.1002°E  / 21.2726; 106.1002 This article about

104-406: 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

117-467: Is plentiful, drawn from ponds and the Cầu River system. By 2003 the national electricity grid has covered 26 of 26 towns and reached 100% of villages. The district now has 124 transformers with capacity of 16,525 kVA . Residents mainly use water from well], as well as natural river water and rainwater. The district has 34,788 wells. 2,600 households are using natural river water. Overall about 70% of

130-652: Is topographically uneven, with hills and low mountains in some communes in the north, the Red River Delta in the east and generally sloped from the northwest to the southeast. The weather is influenced by the tropical monsoon , with the average temperature being 23-24 degrees Celsius, and the average annual rainfall is 1,500 mm. The district has a lack of natural forest; forest plantings have been accomplished in seven communes, totalling 167 hectares. The district has resources of construction industry-quality sand and gravel. Hiệp Hòa's water supply for agricultural use

143-415: 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

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156-578: 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

169-505: The population have water in the toilets. Currently, the water project in Quảng Minh is in the process of funding and construction. District Highway 37 runs 14 km in-district; 3 provincial highways - Road 295, Road 296 and Road 367 - have a total length of 39.6 km. Roads linking communes total 103.2 km and roads linking villages and hamlets total nearly 600 km. Highways and provincial roads are 100% paved. Each commune has

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