By Samantha Jones and Julia Gu
May 29 – Vietnam is composed of 63 provinces and five centrally-governed cities, which stand on the same administrative level as provinces (namely Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Can Tho, Da Nang and Hai Phong). The General Statistics Office of Vietnam further groups these provinces and cities into eight regions, listed below:
- Southeast
- Red River Delta
- Mekong River Delta
- Northeast
- Northwest
- North Central Coast
- South Central Coast
- Central Highlands
We provide introductions to all of these regions in the May issue of Vietnam Briefing Magazine, titled “Vietnam’s Provinces, Regions, and Key Economic Zones,” which is temporarily available as a complimentary PDF download on the Asia Briefing Bookstore.
Of these eight regions, the largest quantities of foreign direct investment to date have gone into the Southeast, with the Red River Delta a distant second. The North and Central
Coasts have each attracted roughly half of the FDI that has flowed into the Red River Delta, followed by the Mekong River Delta, with the Central and Northwest attracting little FDI.
But the patterns of FDI inflows into Vietnam are changing, with formerly ignored provinces receiving increasing attention.
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