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Biên Hòa, Đồng Nai

ward in Dong Nai City

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ136456637 ↗
Source-derived summary

Biên Hòa is a ward located in Đồng Nai, Vietnam. It has an area of about 4.1km2 and the population in 2017 was 23,238.

Editorial summary

“Biên Hòa, Đồng Nai” enters the record as ward in Dong Nai City. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Biên, Đồng and ward can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Biên, Đồng and ward.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Biên Hòa, Đồng Nai” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Biên, Đồng and ward provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q136456637. Authority coordinates are 10.936, 106.805. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2017.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Biên Hòa, Đồng Nai”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Biên Hòa, Đồng Nai primary sources, Biên Hòa, Đồng Nai archive and Biên research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Biên Hòa, Đồng Nai”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Biên Hòa, Đồng Nai” 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.