Mỹ Phong
ward in Dong Thap Province
Mỹ Phong is a ward in Đồng Tháp province, Vietnam. It is one of 102 communes and wards in the province following the 2025 reorganization.
Geography
Mỹ Phong is a ward located in the eastern part of Đồng Tháp province, 110km east of Cao Lãnh ward and 35km west of Go Cong ward. The ward has a geographical location:
To the north, it borders Lương Hòa Lạc commune.
To the west, it borders Đạo Thạnh ward.
To the south, it borders Mỹ Tho ward and Vĩnh Long province.
To the east, it borders Chợ Gạo commune and Bình Ninh commune.
History
Prior to 2025, the area of Mỹ Phong ward was formerly ward 9 and two communes: Mỹ Phong and Tân Mỹ Chánh, belonging to Mỹ Tho city, Tiền Giang province.
On June 12, 2025, the 15th National Assembly of Vietnam issued Resolution No. 202/2025/QH15 on the reorganization of provincial-level administrative units.
“Mỹ Phong” enters the record as ward in Dong Thap Province. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Phong, ward and Dong can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Mỹ Phong” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Phong, ward and Dong provides the most credible route into that argument.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q10796803. Authority coordinates are 10.358, 106.384. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2025.
Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
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This entry incorporates text from “Mỹ Phong” 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.