Guidelines for Establishing the Land Maps Category for Kien Giang Province

Accordingly, Circular 22 stipulates the list of residential places, oronyms, hydronyms, and socio-economic locations serving the mapping work of the land area of Kien Giang province standardized from the place names listed on the national topographic map at a scale of 1:25,000 VN-2000 System.

The list of residential places, oronyms, hydronyms, and socio-economic locations serving the mapping work of the land area of Kien Giang province is arranged in alphabetical order in Vietnamese within each group of geographical subjects, including residential areas, socio-economic locations, hydronyms, and oronyms; commune-level administrative units including: commune-level towns, communes; district-level administrative units including: cities, district-level towns, and districts. In which:

- The "Place Name" column contains standardized place names, with names in parentheses indicating alternative names for the place;- The "Group Identifier" column contains symbols for the group of place names, in which: DC stands for the residential place name group; SV stands for the oronym place name group; TV stands for the hydronym place name group; KX stands for the socio-economic place name group;- The "Commune-level Administrative Unit Name" column contains the names of commune-level administrative units, in which: "TT." is the abbreviation for "commune-level town";- The "District-level Administrative Unit Name" column contains the names of district-level administrative units, in which: "TP." is the abbreviation for "city"; "TX." is the abbreviation for "district-level town"; "H." is the abbreviation for "district";- The "Relative Position Coordinates" column contains the relative position coordinates of the geographical object corresponding to the place name in the "Place Name" column; if the geographical object is represented on the map by a point or area symbol, the coordinate value corresponds to the "Center Coordinates" column; if the geographical object is represented on the map by a line symbol, the coordinate values correspond to the columns "Starting Point Coordinates" and "Ending Point Coordinates";- The "Topographic Map Sheet Number" column contains the symbols for the topographic map sheets at a scale of 1:25,000 used for listing place names;- Place names in parentheses (.) are place names on the map attached to the Treaty, Agreement, and Protocol on boundary delimitation and demarcation.

See details in Circular 22/2017/TT-BTNMT, effective from October 17, 2017.

-Thao Uyen-

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