Which provinces and cities have been split or merged?

The Politburo assigned the Government Party Committee to preside over the study of the orientation of merging a number of provincial-level administrative units. Looking back from 1975 to the present, through many separations and mergers, there was a time when Vietnam reduced from 72 to 38 provinces and cities.

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