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Phủ Thông

village of 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 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ7189925 ↗
Source-derived summary

Phủ Thông is a commune (xã) of Thái Nguyên Province, in Vietnam.

In June 2025, Phủ Thông Commune was established through the merger of the entire natural area and population of Vi Hương Commune (natural area: 21.50 km²; population: 2,756), Phủ Thông Town (natural area: 22.00 km²; population: 3,781), Tân Tú Commune (natural area: 25.14 km²; population: 3,957), and Lục Bình Commune (natural area: 28.31 km²; population: 2,826) of Bạch Thông District.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Phủ Thông” is village of Vietnam. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Thông, village and Vietnam, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2025—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Thông, village and Vietnam is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “village of Vietnam” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7189925. Authority coordinates are 22.333, 105.900. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2025.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. 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 “Phủ Thông”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Phủ Thông primary sources, Phủ Thông archive and Thông 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 “Phủ Thông”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Phủ Thông” 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.