What are the 06 municipalities of Vietnam in 2025? Are History and Geography compulsory subjects at the primary level in Vietnam?

What are the 06 municipalities of Vietnam in 2025?

Under Appendix I issued with Decision 891/QD-TTg in 2024 on the Urban System Planning until 2023 "List of special-class, class I, class II, class III cities" specifically as follows:

Under Resolution 175/2024/QH15 on the establishment of Hue City as a municipality issued by the National Assembly on November 30, 2024, as follows:

Establishment of Hue City

Establish Hue City as a municipality based on the entire natural area of 4,947.11 km² and a population scale of 1,236,393 people of Thua Thien Hue province.

Hue City borders Da Nang City, Quang Nam province, Quang Tri province; the Lao People's Democratic Republic, and the East Sea.

Thus, the 6 municipalities of Vietnam in 2025 are as follows:

- Hanoi City

- Ho Chi Minh City

- Hai Phong City

- Da Nang City

- Can Tho City

- Hue City

*Note: The 6th municipality is Hue City from January 1, 2025.

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Are History and Geography compulsory subjects at the primary level in Vietnam?

Under Section 1 of the General Education Program for History and Geography issued with Circular 32/2018/TT-BGDDT, characteristics of History and Geography at the primary level in Vietnam are as follows:

I. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SUBJECT

History and Geography at the primary level are compulsory subjects, organized to be taught and learned in grades 4 and 5. The subject is built on the basis of inheriting and developing from the Natural and Social subject of grades 1, 2, and 3 and serves as a foundation for learning History and Geography in secondary education, contributing to laying the initial foundation for education about social sciences in higher education levels. The subject helps form and develop in students the essential traits and general competencies as defined in the overall program.

The curriculum for the History and Geography at the primary level in Vietnam includes basic and essential knowledge and skills about geography, local, regional, and national history of Vietnam, neighboring countries, and some basic aspects of world geography and history. The content of the History and Geography program is also directly related to many other subjects and educational activities such as Ethics, Vietnamese, Experiential Activities, etc.

Thus, History and Geography at the primary level are compulsory subjects, organized to be taught and learned in grades 4 and 5

The History and Geography at the primary level in Vietnam help students form and develop the essential traits and general competencies as defined in the overall program.

What are the requirements regarding the educational content for History and Geography at the primary level in Vietnam?

According to Article 30 of the Education Law 2019, the requirements regarding the educational content for History and Geography at the primary level in Vietnam are:

Requirements on contents and methods of general education

1. The contents of general education must ensure the popular, basic, comprehensive, career-orienting, and systematic characteristics; linking with the realities of life, appropriate to the psycho-physiological characteristics of students, meeting the objectives of education at each level.

2. Requirements on the contents of general education at each level are regulated as follows:

a) Primary education must guarantee students the foundation for comprehensive development of physical and emotional health, social skills, simple and necessary knowledge about nature, society and human being; with social moral awareness; with basic skills in listening, reading, speaking, writing and calculating; with habits of physical exercise and hygiene; and with initial understanding of singing, dancing, music and arts;

b) Lower secondary education shall consolidate and develop the contents learned in primary education, guarantee students the basic general knowledge in Vietnamese, mathematics, national history, other knowledge in social sciences, natural sciences, law, informatics, foreign languages; with introductory understanding on techniques and career-orientation.

c) Upper secondary education shall consolidate and develop the contents learned in lower secondary education, complete the contents of general education. Besides guaranteeing the general, basic, comprehensive and career-orienting knowledge for all students, there shall be advanced teaching in some subjects to develop the students' abilities and satisfy their needs.

3. The methods of general education are to promote the activeness, consciousness, initiatives and creativeness of students; to be appropriate to the characteristics of each subject, class and student; to nurture the methods of self-study, the joy of learning, the ability to work in team, the ability of independent thinking; to develop comprehensively in dignity and ability; to enhance the application of information technology and communications to education.

Thus, according to the above stipulations, the requirements regarding the educational content for History and Geography at the primary level in Vietnam are as follows:

- Guarantee students the foundation for comprehensive development of physical and emotional health, social skills, simple and necessary knowledge about nature, society and human being;

- Have social moral awareness;

- Have basic skills in listening, reading, speaking, writing and calculating;

- Have habits of physical exercise and hygiene; and

- Have initial understanding of singing, dancing, music and arts