Tân Uyên, Lai Châu Province
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Tan Uyen District is a rural district (huyện)
Districts of Vietnam
||The provinces of Vietnam are divided into counties , provincial cities , and county-level towns .The centrally-controlled municipalities are subdivided into rural counties , county-level towns , and urban districts , which then subdivided into wards ....

 of Lai Chau Province in the Northwest
Tay Bac
Tây Bắc is one of the regions of Vietnam, located in the mountainous northwestern part of the country. It consists of four provinces: Điện Biên, Lai Châu, Sơn La, and Hòa Bình. It has a population of about two and a half million....

 region of Vietnam
Vietnam
Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...

. It's new district and established in 2008. Its area come from southern half of Than Uyên District.

As of 2008 the district had a population of 42,221. The district covers an area of 903.27 km². The district capital lies at Tân Uyên Town

Communes

Exclude capital town, Than Uyen District has 9 communes:
  • Mường Khoa
  • Phúc Khoa
  • Nậm Sỏ
  • Nậm Cần
  • Thân Thuộc
  • Trung Đồng
  • Hố Mít
  • Pắc Ta
  • Tà Mít
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