District-level town

Cities in Vietnam
Cities: red (special class), pink (class 1)

A district-level town (Vietnamese: thị xã) is a former type of second tier subdivision of Vietnam. District-level towns have equal status with urban districts, districts, municipal cities, and provincial cites. Also by virtue of Decree No. 42/2009/ND-CP, towns are officially classified into Class-3 or Class-4.

District-level towns were abolished in 2025 along with other district-level subdivisions.

The towns may only be 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.

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