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THE PRIME MINISTER OF
GOVERNMENT
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SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom – Happiness
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No. 135/1998/QD-TTg
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Hanoi, July 31, 1998
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DECISION
TO APPROVE THE PROGRAM ON SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN
MOUNTAINOUS, DEEP-LYING AND REMOTE COM-MUNES WITH SPECIAL DIFFICULTIES
THE PRIME MINISTER
Pursuant to the Law on Organization of the
Government of September 30, 1992;
Pursuant to Resolution No. 4/1998/NQ-CP of the Government at its March 1998
regular meeting;
At the proposals of the Minister-Chairman of the Committee for Ethnic
Minorities and Mountainous Areas, the Minister of Planning and Investment, the
Minister of Finance, the Minister of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs and
the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development;
DECIDES:
Article 1.- To approve
the program on the socio-economic development in mountainous, deep-lying and
remote communes with special difficulties, with the Committee for Ethnic
Minorities and Mountainous Areas acting as its standing body to assist the
Government in directing the program implementation, which includes the
following contents:
I. OBJECTIVES
1. General objective:
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2. Specific objectives:
a/ For the 1998-2000 period:
- There will be basically no households
suffering from chronic hunger, with the number of poor households to be reduced
by 4-5% annually.
- To initially supply the inhabitants with water
for their daily life, attract the majority of school-age children into schools;
to be able to control a number of dangerous diseases, to build roads to the
centers of commune clusters in service of the people's life and economic
activities; to help the majority of people to enjoy cultural performances and
communication services.
b/ For the 2000-20005 period:
- To reduce the percentage of poor households in
communes with special difficulties to 25% by the year 2005.
- To ensure the supply of sufficient water for
the inhabitants' daily life; attract over 70% of school-age children into
schools; to provide a great majority of inhabitants with production
experiences, scientific, cultural and social knowledge so that they can take
initiative in applying such experiences and knowledge to their production and
life; to be able to control most of dangerous social diseases; to build roads
to the centers of commune clusters for motorized vehicles and in service of the
people's daily life and economic activities; to boost the development of rural
markets.
II. DIRECTING PRINCIPLES
1. The socio-economic development in
mountainous, deep-lying and remote communes with special difficulties must be,
first of all, based on the promotion of the internal resources of every
household and the community-based assistance and at the same time with the
active support of the State in order to tap local land and labor resources as
well as the natural, and socio-economic conditions in the areas, create new
changes in the people's production as well as material and spiritual life.
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3. There should be comprehensive measures for
implementing the program, first of all concentrating on the agricultural and
forestrial development; building rural infrastructure; and at the same time
boosting the educational, medical, cultural and social development in the
areas.
4. The provinces and cities directly under the
Central Government, the ministries and branches shall have to assist the
communes covered by the program; socio-economic organizations, people's armed
forces, socio-professional organizations, enterprises and the people of all
strata throughout the country as well as overseas Vietnamese... are encouraged
to make active contributions to and support the program implementation.
III. SCOPE OF THE PROGRAM
1. The Central Government shall select 1,000 out
of 1,715 communes facing difficulties (the list of these communes is enclosed
herewith) of the districts with special difficulties so as to concentrate
investment under this program. The remaining communes shall receive priority
investment through various national target programs and other development
projects and programs.
2. The program shall be implemented from 1998 to
2005.
IV. TASKS OF THE PROGRAM
1. To make a planning on the population
re-distribution in places where it is so necessary, step by step rationally
organize the daily life of the inhabitants in mountainous and rural villages
and hamlets in areas where conditions permit, particularly in border and island
communes, create conditions for the inhabitants to quickly stabilize their
production and life.
2. To boost agricultural production and forestry
in association with products processing and marketing so as to tap local
natural resources and utilize the local labor force, create more opportunities
of employment and income generation, stabilize the inhabitants' life and
gradually develop goods production.
3. To develop the rural infrastructure in line
with the production planning and the population re-distribution planning, first
of all, the communications system; the drinking water supply systems; and the
power-supply systems in areas where conditions permit, including mini
hydro-electric power stations.
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5. To train cadres for mountainous and rural
communes and villages, help grassroots cadres to raise their administrative and
economic management abilities in order to meet the local socio-economic
development requirements.
Article 2.- Some major
policies
1. Land policy:
The presidents of the provincial People's
Committees shall direct the assignment of land and forests and the granting of
land tenure certificates in association with the sedentarization and
development of new economic zones, creating conditions for the people to have
access to land for production and stabilize their life.
a/ Farmers' households in mountainous areas
where there are forest protection and planting projects shall be contracted to
protect and zone off areas for forest regeneration in combination with
additional plantings, be assigned land for planting protection and/or
production forests under Decision No. 661/1998/QD-TTg of July 29, 1998 of the Prime
Minister on the "objectives, tasks, policies and organization of the
implementation of the Project to plant five million hectares of new
forests". The land area quotas to be assigned under contracts shall depend
on the specific conditions of each locality and be decided by the provincial
People's Committees.
b/ In areas where farmers have no land or too
little land for agricultural and/or forestrial production, the following
solutions may be applied:
- In provinces where land is still left waste
and can be reclaimed for the development of agricultural and/or forestrial
production, the State shall support the investment in the land reclamation and
the assignment of such land to inhabitants for production.
- To assign State-run and military agricultural
farms and/or afforestation/logging camps based in the localities to receive
landless people, nomadic people and assign land to them under contracts for
production.
- The provincial People's Committees shall adopt
policies to encourage non-State agricultural and forestrial organizations to
receive and offer jobs to poor farmers' households.
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2. Investment and credit policies:
a/ To give priority to investment in building
infrastructure in service of agricultural and forestrial production. In places
where irrigation works can help develop wet rice cultivation, the State shall
allocate the budget capital to support the investment in building irrigation
works. In a number of highland areas with special difficulties where there is
no wet rice field, the State shall provide funding for developing terraced
fields, helping the inhabitants to have conditions for on-the-spot food
production.
b/ The State shall subsidize prices and
transport freights of goods essential for the production and life of farmers'
households living in communes with special difficulties according to Decree No.
20/1998/ND-CP of March 31, 1998 of the Government.
c/ Households which are assigned land and/or
forests for growing industrial plants, fruit trees, specialty trees, herbal
plants and forestrial production shall enjoy the policy stipulated by the Prime
Minister in his Decision No. 661/1998/QD-TTg of July 29, 1998 on the
"objectives, tasks, policy and organization of the implementation of the
Project to plant five million hectares of new forests".
d/ The national target programs and relevant
programs within the areas should give priority to investment in this program.
The households covered by this program shall be given priority to borrow
capital from the bank for the poor and other preferential credit sources for
production development.
e/ The presidents of the People's Committees of
the provinces covered by this program shall concentrate on directing and
mobilizing various local resources for the program implementation. Apart from
the source of investment capital for the overall development of the whole
region, the State shall also give financial support for performing the
following tasks:
- Building of the centers of commune clusters,
which shall be financed by the capital source of the national program on hunger
elimination and poverty alleviation.
- Development of the traffic network: each
district shall be provided with one bulldozer, one rear-dump truck and one
road-roller. The State shall provide explosives, cement, steel and iron for
building subterranean passage, bridges, culverts as well as food for the
construction of rural roads.
- Construction of power projects: in areas where
conditions permit, the State shall support the investment in building the
electric transmission lines to the centers of commune clusters according to the
planning and the investment capability in each period. In areas where
conditions permit the construction of mini-hydro-electric projects, the State
shall support the inhabitants part of the expenditures and lend credits for
development investment.
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g/ The State encourages the establishment of
inter- family terms or groups for mutual assistance in production and daily
life, and efficient use of rural credit sources.
h/ The people in communes with special
difficulties shall enjoy free health-care and medical treatment at State
medical establishments under Decree No. 95-CP of August 27, 1994 of the
Government.
3. Human resource development policies:
a/ The State shall allocate funding for the training
and fostering of cadres for mountainous and rural communes, villages and
hamlets so as to raise their capability of organization and direction,
production management, administrative management and the capability of managing
and using rural credit sources to meet the local socio-economic development
requirements.
b/ Pupils in communes with special difficulties
who go to school shall be provided with textbooks, stationery and exempt from
school fees.
c/ In each of communes with special difficulties
under the program, several farmers' households which achieve good production
results shall be selected for training in skills to conduct the agricultural
and forestrial production promotion work in the localities and enjoy allowances
from the funding for agricultural and forestrial promotion work.
d/ The State shall allocate funding for opening
job training courses for ethnic minority children so as to tap local
potentials, develop non-agricultural production and business lines for the
purpose of income generation and improvement of the living standards.
4. Tasks of various levels and branches and
support and contributions of individuals and organizations inside and outside
the country for the program implementation:
- The steering committee for the program implementation
shall discuss in detail with the provinces and cities directly under the
Central Government where conditions permit, which, in the immediate future are
Ha Noi, Hai Phong, Quang Ninh, Ho Chi Minh City, Dong Nai, Ba Ria - Vung Tau,
Da Nang and Khanh Hoa, and assign them to directly assist a number of communes
targeted by the program, focusing on such contents as giving financial support
for the infrastructure construction, mobilizing their local cadres to visit and
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- To assign the Ministry of Defense to build new
economic zones in areas where condition permit, sponsor and receive about
100,000 households to settle down in waste land areas, border and island areas.
- The State shall encourage socio-political
organizations, socio-professional organizations and people of all strata
throughout the country as well as overseas Vietnamese to support and assist the
implementation of this program.
5. Tax policies
Trading in agricultural and forestrial products
and goods catering for production and life of the inhabitants in communes with
special difficulties shall be entitled to preferential tax policies as
stipulated in Decree No. 20/1998/ND-CP of March 31, 1998 of the Government and
other tax policies which promote investment in accordance with current
regulations.
Article 3.- Capital
sources and their use
1. The investment capital for implementing the
program shall be mobilized from the following sources:
- The State budget capital (including the
capital donated by foreign governments and international organizations).
- Credit loans.
- Capital mobilized from organizations and
population communities.
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Article 4.- Organization
of implementation
1. The Central Steering Committee for the
"Program on the socio-economic Development in mountainous, deep-lying and
remote communes with special difficulties" shall direct the ministries and
functional branches to implement the program according to their respective
functions and tasks and direct the provincial boards for the program
implementation and management to formulate specific projects then submit them
to the competent branches and levels for evaluation and approval according to
current regulations, and make annual plans and organize the effective
implementation of these projects in the provinces.
2. The annual plans on the program
implementation shall be drawn up by the provincial People's Committees as a
separate part of the socio-economic development plans of the provinces and
submitted to the Government. The Ministry of Planning and Investment, the
Ministry of Finance, the concerned ministries and branches and the Central
Steering Committee for the Program on the socio-economic development in
mountainous, deep-lying and remote communes with special difficulties shall
base themselves on their respective functions and tasks to submit to the Prime
Minister for decision the investment capital allocated for the program, which
shall be included separately in the annual plans of the localities and managed
and used by the localities for the right purpose and target beneficiaries and
in conformity with the plans so as to ensure the effective implementation of
the program.
Article 5.- This
Decision takes effect 15 days after its signing. The head of the Steering
Committee for the Program on the socio-economic development in mountainous,
deep-lying and remote communes with special difficulties, the ministers, the
heads of the ministerial-level agencies, the heads of the agencies attached to
the Government and the presidents of the People's Committees of the provinces
and cities directly under the Government shall have to implement this Decision.
THE
PRIME MINISTER OF GOVERNMENT
Phan Van Khai
TABLE 1
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Ordinal number
Names of provinces
Names of districts
Number of communes
Number of households
Number of inhabitants
(1)
(2)
(3)
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(5)
(6)
1
Ha Giang
8 districts
117
44,464
276,589
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1.1 Meo vac
15
7,004
44,838
1.2 Dong Van
17
7,244
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1.3 Yen Minh
14
5,916
38,304
1.4 Quan Ba
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3,557
21,737
1.5 Hoang Su Phi
25
7,755
50,004
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1.6 Xin Man
17
5,941
35,908
1.7 Bac Me
10
3,477
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1.8 Vi Xuyen
9
3,570
19,096
2
Cao Bang
10 districts
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38,768
233,782
2.1 Bao Lac
15
7,320
49,060
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2.2 Ha Lang
10
3,406
18,943
2.3 Thong Nong
6
1,783
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2.4 Nguyen Binh
13
3,879
25,796
2.5 Ha Quang
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3,584
21,142
2.6 Tra Linh
5
1,338
7,760
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2.7 Trung Khanh
10
4,855
26,474
2.8 Quang Hoa
13
5,526
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2.9 Thach An
9
2,878
15,619
2.10 Hoa An
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4,199
29,946
3
Lai Chau
7 districts
88
30,083
209,171
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3.1 Muong Te
16
4,072
27,816
3.2 Sin Ho
19
6,706
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3.3 Dien Bien Dong
9
3,581
28,810
3.4 Tua Chua
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3,255
23,615
3.5 Muong Lay
7
3,420
24,462
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3.6 Phong Tho
21
6,839
44,105
3.7 Tuan Giao
7
2,210
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4
Son La
7 districts
52
24,142
168,812
4.1 Song Ma
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6,685
48,219
4.2 Thuan Chau
12
5,618
41,603
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4.3 Bac Yen
5
1,543
10,368
4.4 Muong La
6
2,513
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4.5 Phu Yen
5
1,668
12,346
4.6 Moc Chau
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3,448
20,749
4.7 Quynh Nhai
4
2,667
18,793
5
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5 districts
84
28,058
146,054
5.1 Ba Be
16
5,453
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5.2 Ngan Son
5
1,871
10,579
5.3 Na Ri
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5,936
32,716
5.4 Cho Don
21
7,508
27,161
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5.5 Bach Thong
21
7,290
41,207
6
Lao Cai
7 districts
115
39,918
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6.1 Bac Ha
31
9,840
60,839
6.2 Sa Pa
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4,412
31,018
6.3 Bat Xat
17
5,115
33,934
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6.4 Than Uyen
12
5,989
43,847
6.5 Muong Khuong
13
4,695
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6.6 Van Ban
15
4,538
31,142
6.7 Bao Yen
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5,329
31,094
7
Kon Tum
4 districts
24
8,590
44,028
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7.1 Dakglei
7
2,541
12,398
7.2 Dakto
7
2,030
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7.3 Kon Plon
6
2,585
14,091
7.4 Sa Thay
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1,434
7,063
Total
7 provinces
48 districts
586
214,023
1,341,349
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LIST OF PROVINCES
THAT HAVE KEY DISTRICTS WITH SPECIAL DIFFICULTIES
Ordinal number
Names of provinces
Names of districts
Number of communes
Number of households
Number of inhabitants
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(2)
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(5)
(6)
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Tuyen Quang
2 districts
35
19,971
113,645
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1.1 Na Hang
20
8,835
54,921
1.2 Chiem Hoa
15
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58,724
2
Lang Son
2 districts
17
5,305
32,324
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7
2,307
13,140
2.2 Binh Gia
10
2,998
19,184
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Yen Bai
2 districts
24
6,034
44,472
3.1 Mu Cang Chai
13
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29,670
3.2 Tram Tau
11
2,221
14,802
4
Hoa Binh
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24
7,721
49,599
4.1 Da Bac
16
5,418
35,186
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4.2 Mai Chau
8
2,303
14,413
5
Thanh Hoa
3 districts
25
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75,589
5.1 Muong Lat
6
2,995
20,553
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12
5,677
30,515
5.3 Quan Son
7
3,342
24,521
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Nghe An
3 districts
49
20,023
136,581
6.1 Ky Son
20
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49,982
6.2 Que Phong
10
5,136
34,587
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19
8,539
52,012
7
Quang Binh
2 districts
18
8,059
47,417
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7.1 Minh Hoa
11
4,683
26,687
7.2 Tuyen Hoa
7
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20,730
8
Quang Tri
2 districts
18
4,249
25,112
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13
3,215
18,993
8.2 Dak Rong
5
1,034
6,119
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Thua Thien-Hue
2 districts
15
3,391
20,045
8.1 A Luoi
11
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14,505
8.2 Nam Dong
4
995
5,540
10
Quang Nam
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32
8,455
39,242
10.1 Hien
16
3,611
12,117
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10.2 Giang
8
1,927
11,315
10.3 Phuoc Son
8
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15,810
11
Quang Ngai
2 districts
19
5,824
33,657
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4
2,128
13,600
11.2 Tuyen Hoa
15
3,696
20,057
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Binh Dinh
2 districts
12
4,137
21,519
12.1 An Lao
7
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7,947
12.2 Vinh Thanh
5
2,646
13,572
13
Phu Yen
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5
1,881
10,525
13.1 Son Hoa
5
1,881
10,525
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Ninh Thuan
1 district
11
3,736
21,344
14.1 Ninh Son
11
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21,344
15
Gia Lai
2 districts
14
5,525
33,709
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6
2,088
13,063
15.2 Krong Pa
8
3,437
20,646
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Daklak
2 districts
7
1,855
11,103
16.1 Dak Nong
4
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5,181
16.2 Krong No
3
1,030
5,922
17
Lam Dong
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5
2,582
15,784
17.1 Lac Duong
5
2,582
15,784
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Binh Phuoc
1 district
2
1,467
7,416
18.1 Bu Dang
2
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7,416
19
Bac Giang
1 district
14
6,500
37,728
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14
6,500
37,728
20
Thai Nguyen
1 district
11
6,162
34,408
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20.1 Vo Nhai
11
6,162
34,408
21
Phu Tho
2 districts
31
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91,843
21.1 Yen Lap
12
8,968
46,549
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19
7,932
45,294
22
Tra Vinh
2 districts
13
29,495
157,545
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22.1 Tra Cu
9
20,707
108,136
22.2 Chau Thanh
4
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49,409
23
Soc Trang
2 districts
13
27,493
171,889
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5
10,835
57,566
23.2 Vinh Chau
8
16,658
114,323
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23 provinces
43 districts
414
208,779
1,232,496