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Vietnamese
Etymology
Sino-Vietnamese word from 城庯, composed of 城 (“city”) and 庯 (“street”).
Pronunciation
Noun
thành phố
- a city
- one of the five province-level subdivisions of Vietnam labeled thành phố trực thuộc trung ương (literally “city under the central (national) government's direct management”), namely Hà Nội (“Hanoi”), Hải Phòng (“Haiphong”), Đà Nẵng (“Da Nang”), Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh (“Ho Chi Minh City”) and Cần Thơ; itself is subdivided into quận (“districts”)
- the capital of a Vietnamese tỉnh (“province”), labeled thành phố trực thuộc tỉnh (literally “city under a province's direct management”); itself is subdivided into phường (“wards”)
- a subprovincial division of a thành phố trực thuộc trung ương, called thành phố thuộc thành phố trực thuộc trung ương, that is larger than a quận in terms of economic and population importance