Circular 17/2017/TT-BTNMT was issued by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment on July 26, 2017, providing specific guidance on the establishment of the list of residential place names in An Giang Province.
Accordingly, Circular 17 stipulates the list of residential, topographic, and hydrographic names, as well as socio-economic entities to serve the mapping of An Giang province, arranged in alphabetical order of the district-level administrative units, including: city, district-level town, and districts. Specifically:
- The "Geographical Names" column lists names that have been standardized;- The "Object Group" column denotes symbols for the groups of names, wherein: DC represents the residential names group; SV represents the topographic names group; TV represents the hydrographic names group; KX represents the socio-economic names group;- The "Commune-level Administrative Unit Name" column includes the name of the commune-level administrative unit, wherein: "P." is the abbreviation for "ward"; "TT." is the abbreviation for "commune-level town";- The "District-level Administrative Unit Name" column includes the name of the district-level administrative unit, wherein: "TP." is the abbreviation for "city"; "H." is the abbreviation for "district"; "TX." is the abbreviation for "district-level town";- The "Relative Position Coordinates of Object" column lists the relative position coordinates of the geographical object corresponding to the name in the "Geographical Names" column; if the geographical object is depicted as a point or region symbol on the map, the coordinate value corresponds to the "Central Coordinate" column; if the geographical object is depicted as a line symbol on the map, the coordinate value corresponds to the "Start Coordinate" and "End Coordinate" columns;- The "Topographic Map Sheet Number" column indicates the 1:25,000 scale topographic map sheet containing the standardized name in the "Geographical Names" column.
See details in Circular 17/2017/TT-BTNMT, which takes effect from September 15, 2017.
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