Provinces of Vietnam

Vietnam is divided into 34 first-level subdivisions, comprising 27 provinces and 7 municipalities under the command of the central government.

List and statistics

By the end of 2024, the population of Vietnam was 101,343,800. The most populous top-level administrative unit is Hồ Chí Minh City, one of the six centrally governed cities, having 14,002,598 people living within its official boundary. The second most populous administrative unit is Hà Nội with 8,807,523 people. The least populous is Lai Châu, a mountainous province in the northwest with 512,601 people. In land area, the largest province is Lâm Đồng with 24,233.09 km², the smallest is Hưng Yên (2,514.81 km²), located in the Red River Delta region.

The following is a table of Vietnam's provinces broken down by population and area. Municipalities are written in bold.

{| class="wikitable sortable sticky-header" style="font-size: 95%;"

! rowspan="2" |Province/city

! rowspan="2" |Number<br>on map

! rowspan="2" |Administrative<br>center

! rowspan="2" |Area (in km²)<br>

! rowspan="2" |Population<br>

! rowspan="2" |Density (/km²)

! colspan="3" |Administrative divisions

! rowspan="2" |Region

|-

! Communes

! Wards

! Special<br>administrative<br>regions

|---

|Cao Bằng province

| align="right" |10

|Thục Phán ward

| align="right" |6,700.39

| align="right" |573,119

| align="right" |85

|53

|3

|0

| rowspan="6" |Northeast

|---

|Lạng Sơn province

| align="right" |11

|Lương Văn Tri ward

| align="right" |8,310.18

| align="right" |881,384

| align="right" |106

|61

|4

|0

|---

|Phú Thọ province

| align="right" |15

|Việt Trì ward

| align="right" |9,361.38

| align="right" |4,022,638

| align="right" |429

|133

|15

|0

|---

|Quảng Ninh province

| align="right" |17

|Hạ Long ward

| align="right" |6,207.95

| align="right" |1,497,477

| align="right" |241

|22

|30

|2

|---

|Thái Nguyên province

| align="right" |13

|Phan Đình Phùng ward

| align="right" |8,375.21

| align="right" |1,799,489

| align="right" |214

|76

|15

|0

|---

|Tuyên Quang province

| align="right" |12

|Minh Xuân ward

| align="right" |13,795.50

| align="right" |1,865,270

| align="right" |135

|177

|7

|0

|---

|Lào Cai province

| align="right" |9

|Yên Bái ward

| align="right" |13,256.92

| align="right" |1,778,785

| align="right" |134

|89

|10

|0

| rowspan="4" |Northwest

|---

|Điện Biên province

| align="right" |7

|Điện Biên Phủ ward

| align="right" |9,539.93

| align="right" |673,091

| align="right" |70

|42

|3

|0

|---

|Lai Châu province

| align="right" |8

|Tân Phong ward

| align="right" |9,068.73

| align="right" |512,601

| align="right" |56

|36

|2

|0

|---

|Sơn La province

| align="right" |14

|Chiềng Cơi ward

| align="right" |14,108.89

| align="right" |1,404,587

| align="right" |99

|67

|8

|0

|---

|Bắc Ninh province

| align="right" |16

|Bắc Giang ward

| align="right" |3,194.72

| align="right" |3,619,433

| align="right" |1,132

|66

|33

|0

| rowspan="5" |Red River Delta

|---

|Hưng Yên province

| align="right" |18

|Phố Hiến ward

| align="right" |2,514.81

| align="right" |3,567,943

| align="right" |1,418

|93

|11

|0

|---

|Ninh Bình province

| align="right" |19

|Hoa Lư ward

| align="right" |3,942.62

| align="right" |4,412,464

| align="right" |1,119

|97

|32

|0

|---

||Hanoi

| align="right" |1

|Hoàn Kiếm ward

| align="right" |3,359.84

| align="right" |8,807,523

| align="right" |2,621

|75

|51

|0

|---

||Haiphong

| align="right" |3

|Thủy Nguyên ward

| align="right" |3,194.72

| align="right" |4,664,124

| align="right" |1,459

|67

|45

|2

|---

|Hà Tĩnh province

| align="right" |22

|Thành Sen ward

| align="right" |5,994.45

| align="right" |1,622,901

| align="right" |270

|60

|9

|0

| rowspan="5" |North Central

|---

|Nghệ An province

| align="right" |21

|Trường Vinh ward

| align="right" |16,486.50

| align="right" |3,831,694

| align="right" |232

|119

|11

|0

|---

|Quảng Trị province

| align="right" |23

|Đồng Hới ward

| align="right" |12,700

| align="right" |1,870,845

| align="right" |147

|69

|8

|1

|---

|Thanh Hóa province

| align="right" |20

|Hạc Thành ward

| align="right" |11,114.71

| align="right" |4,324,783

| align="right" |389

|147

|19

|0

|---

|Huế

| align="right" |6

|Thuận Hóa ward

| align="right" |4,947.11

| align="right" |1,432,986

| align="right" |289

|19

|21

|0

|---

|Đắk Lắk province

| align="right" |26

|Buôn Ma Thuột ward

| align="right" |18,096.40

| align="right" |3,346,853

| align="right" |184

|88

|14

|0

| rowspan="6" |South Central Coast<br>and<br>Central Highlands

|---

|Gia Lai province

| align="right" |25

|Quy Nhơn ward

| align="right" |21,576.93

| align="right" |3,583,693

| align="right" |166

|110

|25

|0

|---

|Lâm Đồng province

| align="right" |28

|Xuân Hương – Đà Lạt ward

| align="right" |24,233.07

| align="right" |3,872,999

| align="right" |159

|103

|20

|1

|---

|Khánh Hòa province

| align="right" |27

|Nha Trang ward

| align="right" |8,555.86

| align="right" |2,243,554

| align="right" |262

|48

|16

|1

|---

|Quảng Ngãi province

| align="right" |24

|Cẩm Thành ward

| align="right" |14,832.55

| align="right" |2,161,755

| align="right" |145

|86

|9

|1

|---

||Da Nang

| align="right" |4

|Hải Châu ward

| align="right" |11,859.59

| align="right" |3,065,628

| align="right" |258

|70

|23

|1

|---

|Đồng Nai

| align="right" |30

|Trấn Biên ward

| align="right" |12,737.18

| align="right" |4,491,408

| align="right" |352

|72

|23

|0

| rowspan="3" |Southeast

|---

|Tây Ninh province

| align="right" |29

|Long An ward

| align="right" |8,536.44

| align="right" |3,254,170

| align="right" |381

|82

|14

|0

|---

|Hồ Chí Minh City

| align="right" |2

|Sài Gòn ward

| align="right" |6,772.59

| align="right" |14,002,598

| align="right" |2,067

|54

|113

|1

|---

|An Giang province

| align="right" |32

|Rạch Giá ward

| align="right" |9,888.91

| align="right" |4,952,238

| align="right" |500

|85

|14

|3

| rowspan="5" |Mekong Delta

|---

|Cà Mau province

| align="right" |34

|Tân Thành ward

| align="right" |7,942.39

| align="right" |2,606,672

| align="right" |328

|55

|9

|0

|---

|Đồng Tháp province

| align="right" |31

|Mỹ Tho ward

| align="right" |5,938.64

| align="right" |4,370,046

| align="right" |735

|82

|20

|0

|---

|Vĩnh Long province

| align="right" |33

|Long Châu ward

| align="right" |6,296.20

| align="right" |4,257,581

| align="right" |676

|105

|19

|0

|---

||Cần Thơ

| align="right" |5

|Ninh Kiều ward

| align="right" |6,360.83

| align="right" |4,199,824

| align="right" |660

|72

|31

|0

|}

Regions

right|200px|thumb|Regions of Vietnam before June 12th, 2025.

The provinces of Vietnam are sometimes divided into seven regions (sometimes Northeast and Northwest regions are merged into Northern midlands and mountainous region), which are grouped into three macro-regions: Northern, Central and Southern. These regions are not always used, and alternative classifications are possible. The regions include:

{| class="wikitable sortable"

|+ Regions of Vietnam

! Macro-region

! Region

! provinces<br>included

! Area<br>(km²)

! Population<br>