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Nông Sơn district

district in South Central Coast, Vietnam

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ2541962 ↗
Source-derived summary

Nông Sơn is a new rural district of Quảng Nam province in the South Central Coast region of Vietnam. It was established in 2008 when part of Quế Sơn district split to form Nông Sơn District. The district capital is under construction.

Communes

Nông Sơn district is subdivided into 7 communes: Quế Lộc, Quế Trung, Quế Ninh, Quế Phước, Quế Lâm, Sơn Viên and Phước Ninh.

Editorial summary

“Nông Sơn district” enters the record as district in South Central Coast, Vietnam. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Nông, district and South can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2008-04-23. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Nông, district and South.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Nông Sơn district” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Nông, district and South provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

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 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2541962. Authority coordinates are 15.656, 107.977. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2008.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. 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 “Nông Sơn district”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Nông Sơn district primary sources, Nông Sơn district archive and Nông 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 “Nông Sơn district”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Nông Sơn district” 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.