
Viet Nam Provinces (2020, pre-2025 reform)
OCHA COD-AB Viet Nam ADM1, sourced from the General Statistics Office of Viet Nam (GSO). 63 provinces and centrally-governed cities — the division in force from 2020-01-03 until Viet Nam's 2025 administrative reform (effective 2025-07-01) merged them into 34 units. Published to serve data keyed to the pre-reform division, which covers essentially all Vietnamese provincial statistics up to 2024. Source fields DATE=2019-10-01, VALIDON=2020-01-03, VALIDTO=null. Bytes retrieved from the fieldmaps.io COD mirror (https://data.fieldmaps.io/cod/originals/vnm.shp.zip, src_name 'Government of Viet Nam', src_lic CC BY-IGO, src_url the canonical HDX page) because the HDX COD-AB resource has been replaced in place by version 02, the post-reform 34-unit set; source zip sha256 7bd79710. Keep-list ADM1_EN/ADM1_VI/ADM1_PCODE; ADM0_* dropped as constant, DATE/VALIDON/VALIDTO dropped as metadata. One RFC7946 writer artefact (Quang Ninh VN225, GeometryCollection{MultiPolygon, 2-point LineString}) coerced to MultiPolygon per decision 0020 — source geometry was ST_IsValid=1 and plain ogr2ogr produced zero collections; total area preserved to 2e-10 relative. Extent reaches lon 117.8/lat 7.18 because the set includes the offshore island districts as the publisher represents them: Hoang Sa (Paracels) under Da Nang city, Truong Sa (Spratlys) under Khanh Hoa — disputed-sovereignty areas carried exactly as published, not edited. Five-view inspection clean, shoreline-clipped variant (archipelagos render as discrete islands). Produce fixes: multi-normalised only. Resolver miss ms_995cba076f7746109dbeef0787d46c79, join 63/63 at 100%.
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