Talk:List of the most populous country subdivisions
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Should we limit as to how many can be listed on here? - 68.23.33.147 02:11, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)
[edit] An Edit for Vietnam
I've taken the liberty of cleaning up the entries for Vietnam. Someone seems to have done a copy-and-paste operation from World Gazeteer, and used the Regions of Vietnam without really thinking about it. The "Regions" seem to be an arbitrary grouping of provinces together for statistical purposes. I argue these are not true sub-national units at all. (Or are we going to include the United States federal judicial circuits as sub-national entities? Or even the "American South"? I think not.) So I've snipped the regions.
What I've done is replaced them by entries from the Provinces of Vietnam - to be exact, the two above 3 million in population. The Provinces are the sub-national government units used in this country. The idea of "provinces" predates unification (1975), everyone locally seems to know what they are, and provinces are used in snail mail addresses. They're all listed in the 2001 edition of the "Tập Bản Đồ Hành Chính Việt Nam" (Việt Nam Administrative Atlas)", while the "regions" are not.
Someone was worried as to how long this list could be. I think I will edit it to say "this is the list of sub-national entities above 3,000,000". It's a nice round number, and it corresponds with the cut-off. If anyone wants to drop it to 2,000,000, they'll have to do the hard work of finding the extra entities.
--Tphcm 04:27, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
