Provinces of Vietnam
Province/City Administrative center Area ( in km ) Population Density ( /km² ) % Urban HDI ( 2012 ) GDP per capita ( 2011 PPP US $ ) Region
Bắc Giang Province Bắc Giang 3,895.59 1,803,950 463 11.4 0.711 1,909.44 Northeast
Bắc Kạn Province Bắc Kạn 4,859.96 313,905 65 20.7 0.685 1,766.68 Northeast
Cao Bằng Province Cao Bằng 6,700.26 530,341 79 23.3 0.653 1,564.27 Northeast
Hà Giang Province Hà Giang 7,929.48 854,679 108 15.9 0.586 1,083.72 Northeast
Lạng Sơn Province Lạng Sơn 8,310.09 781,655 94 20.4 0.707 2,201.98 Northeast
Phú Thọ Province Việt Trì 3,534.56 1,463,726 414 18.1 0.715 1,916.23 Northeast
Quảng Ninh Province Hạ Long 6,178.21 1,320,324 214 64.1 0.784 7,834.55 Northeast
Thái Nguyên Province Thái Nguyên 3,526.64 1,286,751 365 31.9 0.741 2,547.11 Northeast
Tuyên Quang Province Tuyên Quang 5,867.90 784,811 134 13.8 0.699 1,948.18 Northeast
Lào Cai Province Lào Cai 6,364.03 730,420 115 23.5 0.670 2,767.55 Northeast
Yên Bái Province Yên Bái 6,887.46 821,030 119 19.8 0.657 1,845.51 Northeast
Điện Biên Province Điện Biên Phủ 9,541.25 598,856 63 14.4 0.611 1,589.03 Northwest
Hòa Bình Province Hòa Bình 4,590.57 854,131 186 15.7 0.715 2,343.13 Northwest
Lai Châu Province Lai Châu 9,068.79 460,196 51 17.8 0.560 1,081.84 Northwest
Sơn La Province Sơn La 14,123.49 1,248,415 88 13.8 0.634 1,773.90 Northwest
Bắc Ninh Province Bắc Ninh 822.71 1,368,840 1,664 27.5 0.771 4,451.41 Red River Delta
Hà Nam Province Phủ Lý 861.93 852,800 989 16.7 0.724 2,131.93 Red River Delta
Hải Dương Province Hải Dương 1,668.24 1,892,254 1,134 25.2 0.746 2,513.92 Red River Delta
Hưng Yên Province Hưng Yên 930.22 1,252,731 1,347 12.2 0.743 2,503.79 Red River Delta
Nam Định Province Nam Định 1,668.57 1,780,393 1,067 18.2 0.726 1,904.97 Red River Delta
List and statistics
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 * ** *** **** Provinces of Vietnam *-Phú Quốc Island ( Phú Quốc , Kiên Giang ) **-Côn Đảo ( Côn Đảo , Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu ) ***-Paracel Islands ( Hoàng Sa , Đà Nẵng ) ****-Spratly Islands ( Trường Sa , Khánh Hòa ) According to the census results of 1 April 2019 , the population of Vietnam is 96,208,984 people [ 3 ] . The most populous top-level administrative unit in Vietnam is Hồ Chí Minh City , one of the five centrally governed cities . It has 8,993,082 people living within its official boundaries . The second most populous administrative unit is the recently expanded Hà Nội with 8,053,663 [ 3 ] people . Prior to the expansion of the capital city , this rank belonged to Thanh Hóa with 3,640,128 people . The least populous is Bắc Kạn , a mountainous province in the remote northeast with 313,905 people . In land area , the largest province is Nghệ An , which runs from the city of Vinh up the wide Sông Cả valley . The smallest is Bắc Ninh , located in the populous Red River Delta region .
On the First Tier, Vietnam is divided into 58 provinces () and 5 municipalities (). Municipalities are the highest-ranked cities in Vietnam. Municipality are centrally-controlled cities and have special status equal to the provinces. The provinces are divided into Provincial Cities, Towns and Rural Districts as the Second Tier units. At the Third Tier, Provincial City and Town is divided into Ward and Commune, while Rural District is divided into Townships (thị trấn) and Communes.