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Tây Nha Trang

ward in Khanh Hoa province, Vietnam

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ138642399 ↗
Source-derived summary

Tây Nha Trang (Vietnamese: Phường Tây Nha Trang, lit. 'West Nha Trang') is a ward of Khánh Hòa province, Vietnam. It is one of the 65 new wards, communes and special zones of the province following the reorganization in 2025.

History

On June 16, 2025, the National Assembly Standing Committee issued Resolution No. 1667/NQ-UBTVQH15 on the arrangement of commune-level administrative units of Khánh Hòa province in 2025 (effective from June 16, 2025). Accordingly, the entire land area and population of Ngọc Hiệp, Phương Sài wards and Vĩnh Ngọc, Vĩnh Thạnh, Vĩnh Hiệp, Vĩnh Trung communes of the former Nha Trang city will be integrated into a new ward named Tây Nha Trang (Clause 51, Article 1).

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Tây Nha Trang” is ward in Khanh Hoa province, Vietnam. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Trang, ward and Khanh, 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, 1667—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Trang, ward and Khanh is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “ward in Khanh Hoa province, 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 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q138642399. Authority coordinates are 12.276, 109.165. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2025 and 1667.

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 “Tây Nha Trang”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Tây Nha Trang primary sources, Tây Nha Trang archive and Trang 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 “Tây Nha Trang”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Tây Nha Trang” 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.