Mai Châu
Mai Châu Commune
Xã Mai Châu Thị trấn Mai Châu Huyện Mai Châu Xã Chiềng Sại | |
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 The central valley of Mai Châu commune in 2008. | |
  Mai Châu Commune | |
| Coordinates: 20°39′49″N 105°05′01″E / 20.66361°N 105.08361°E | |
| Country |  Vietnam |
| Region | Northern Midlands and Mountains |
| Province | Phú Thọ |
| Establishment | May 24, 1886 (Hưng Hóa's mueang) December 26, 1992 (Hòa Bình's township) April 17, 2025 (Phú Thọ's commune) |
| Central hall | Little Zone 3, National Route 15, Mai Châu Commune |
| Government | |
| • Type | Commune-level authority |
| • People Committee's Chairman | Hà Văn Quang |
| • People Council's chairman | (unknown) |
| • Front Committee's chairman | (unknown) |
| • Party Committee's Secretary | (unknown) |
| Area | |
| • Metro | 1,302 km2 (503 sq mi) |
| Population (2025) | |
| ? | |
| • Urban | 5,035 |
| • Metro | ? |
| • Ethnicities | Mường Thái Kinh Tanka |
| Time zone | UTC+7 (Indochina Time) |
| ZIP code | 36426[note 1] |
Mai Châu [maːj˧˥:ʨəw˧˥] is a commune[1] of Phú Thọ province in the Northern Midlands and Mountains region of Vietnam.
History
Its name Mai Châu belongs to one of the phonetic ways in Kinh language, what is Chiangsai (ຊຽງ ໄຊ, Chiềng Sại) in Tai language.[2]
On April 17, 2025, to realize the Plan to arrange and merge administrative units in Vietnam 2024–2025 by the Government of Vietnam, the Hòa Bình Provincial People's Committee conducted an extraordinary conference. The result of the conference was a Resolution on the dissolution of all rural-district level administrative units in the whole province, followed by another Resolution on the merging of communes and the establishment of new communes with their new names.
According to the political document officially published for the press, Mai Châu township (thị trấn Mai Châu) was also dissolved. Its entire area and population have been merged with the same ones of three old communes Nà Phòn, Thành Sơn and Tòng Đậu, even five hamlets Bâng, Đồng Bảng, Phiêng Xa, Tiểu Khu and Vắt from old Đồng Tân commune. This new administrative unit is called as Mai Châu commune (xã Mai Châu), what inherits most of the cultural and historical heritage of the former rural-district level. Mai Châu commune is directly under the management of new Phú Thọ province.[note 2]
See also
Notes and references
Notes
References
Further reading
Bibliography
- George Coedes. The Making of South East Asia, 2nd ed. University of California Press, 1983.
- Trần Ngọc Thêm. Cơ sở văn hóa Việt Nam (The Foundation of Vietnamese Culture), 504 pages. Publishing by Nhà xuất bản Đại học Tổng hợp TPHCM. Saigon, Vietnam, 1995.
- Trần Quốc Vượng, Tô Ngọc Thanh, Nguyễn Chí Bền, Lâm Mỹ Dung, Trần Thúy Anh. Cơ sở văn hóa Việt Nam Archived 2024-05-31 at the Wayback Machine (The Basis of Vietnamese Culture), 292 pages. Re-publishing by Nhà xuất bản Giáo Dục Việt Nam & Quảng Nam Printing Co-Ltd. Hanoi, Vietnam, 2006.
- Li Tana (2011). Jiaozhi (Giao Chỉ) in the Han period Tongking Gulf. In Cooke, Nola; Li Tana; Anderson, James A. (eds.). The Tongking Gulf Through History. University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 39–44. ISBN 9780812205022.
- Tập bản đồ hành chính Việt Nam (Vietnamese Administrative Maps), Nhà xuất bản Tài nguyên – Môi trường và Bản đồ Việt Nam, Hà Nội, 2013.
- Li Tana, Towards an environmental history of the Eastern Red River Delta, Vietnam, c.900–1400, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 2014.
- Samuel Baron, Christoforo Borri, Olga Dror, Keith W. Taylor (2018). Views of Seventeenth-Century Vietnam : Christoforo Borri on Cochinchina and Samuel Baron on Tonkin. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-1-501-72090-1.
- The Birth of Vietnam : Sino-Vietnamese Relations to the Tenth Century and the Origins of Vietnamese Nationhood. University of Michigan Press. 1976.
- Taylor, Keith Weiler (1983). The Birth of Vietnam. Berkeley, California: University of California Press. doi:10.2307/jj.8501140. ISBN 978-0-52007-417-0. JSTOR jj.8501140. LCCN 81011590. OCLC 1131176955. S2CID 265239427.
- Taylor, K. W.; Whitmore, John K., eds. (1995). Essays Into Vietnamese Pasts. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Southeast Asia Program. doi:10.7591/9781501718991. ISBN 978-0-87727-718-7. JSTOR 10.7591/j.ctv1nhmtn. OCLC 1091450831.
- Borri, Christoforo; Baron, Samuel (2006). Views of Seventeenth-Century Vietnam: Christoforo Borri on Cochinchina and Samuel Baron on Tonkin. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. doi:10.7591/9781501720901. ISBN 978-0-87727-771-2. JSTOR 10.7591/j.ctv3s8qt9. LCCN 2009280899. OCLC 1262600216. S2CID 160903627.
- Taylor, K. W. (2013). A History of the Vietnamese. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9781139021210. ISBN 978-1-107-24435-1. LCCN 2012035197. OCLC 843761714. S2CID 161759966.
External links
- Mai Châu builds a 'green economy' (in Vietnamese)
