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Bắc Kạn

urban ward in Thái Nguyên, Vietnam

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ137383836 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bắc Kạn is an urban ward (phường) of Thái Nguyên Province, in Vietnam.

In June 2025, Bắc Kạn Ward was established through the merger of the entire natural area and population of Sông Cầu Ward (natural area: 3.96 km²; population: 10,192), Phùng Chí Kiên Ward (natural area: 3.34 km²; population: 8,016), Nông Thượng Commune (natural area: 22.08 km²; population: 3,811), and Xuất Hóa Ward (natural area: 42.63 km²; population: 3,368) of Bắc Kạn City.

Editorial summary

“Bắc Kạn” enters the record as urban ward in Thái Nguyên, Vietnam. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what urban, ward and Thái can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2025—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around urban, ward and Thái.
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Why this record matters

“Bắc Kạn” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, urban, ward and Thái provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q137383836. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2025.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bắc Kạn” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.