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Online Gazetteers

 * FamilySearch Places
 * World Gazetteers at Archive.org
 * Northern Vietnam : official standard names approved by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names United States. Board on Geographic Names, FamilySearch International, 1964
 * Southern Vietnam and the South China Sea : official standard names approved by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names United States. Board on Geographic Names, FamilySearch International, 1961
 * Area handbook for North Vietnam Harvey H. Smith, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1967
 * Area handbook for South Vietnam Harvey H. Smith, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1967
 * Vietnam Factbook at CIA The World Factbook
 * Vietnam: Provinces, Major Cities, Towns & Urban Communes at City Population
 * Vietnam: Provincial Division (Provinces) - Population Statistics at City Population
 * List of Vietnam Locations at GeoNames
 * Vietnam - 10 Largest Cities at GeoNames
 * Facts and figures about Vietnam at Places in the World
 * Gazetteer - Index of places Vietnam at Places in the World
 * Cities in Vietnam at Wikipedia
 * Demographics of Vietnam at Wikipedia
 * Districts of Vietnam at Wikipedia
 * Municipalities of Vietnam at Wikipedia
 * Outline of Vietnam at Wikipedia
 * Place names of Vietnam at Wikipedia
 * Provinces of Vietnam at Wikipedia
 * Religion in Vietnam at Wikipedia
 * Universities in Vietnam at Wikipedia
 * Biggest Cities In Vietnam at WorldAtlas
 * Highest Mountains In Vietnam at WorldAtlas
 * Maps Of Vietnam at WorldAtlas

Print Only Gazetteers

 * Gazetteer to AMS 1:250,000 maps of Indochina United States. Army. Corps of Engineers, Washington, D.C. : Army Map Service, 1958
 * Vietnam War : an official standard names gazetteer : a listing of 46,250 entries for places and features as they existed during the Vietnam War (1959-1975) Douglas Pike, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 198?
 * Gazetteer of the administrative units of Vietnam Trịnh Tất Đạt, Encyclopedia Publishing House, Hanoi City, 2014

Why Use Gazetteers
A gazetteer is a dictionary of place-names. Gazetteers list or describe towns and villages, parishes, states, populations, rivers and mountains, and other geographical features. They usually include only the names of places that existed at the time the gazetteer was published. Within a specific geographical area, the place-names are listed in alphabetical order, similar to a dictionary. You can use a gazetteer to locate the places where your family lived and to determine the civil and religious jurisdictions over those places.

There are many places within a country with similar or identical place-names. You will need to use a gazetteer to identify the specific town where your ancestor lived, the state the town was or is in, and the jurisdictions where records about the person was kept.

Gazetteer Contents
Gazetteers may also provide additional information about towns, such as:
 * Different religious denominations
 * Schools, colleges, and universities
 * Major manufacturers, canals, docks, and railroad stations
 * The population size.
 * Boundaries of civil jurisdiction.
 * Ecclesiastical jurisdiction(s)
 * Longitude and latitude.
 * Distances and direction from other from cities.
 * Schools, colleges, and universities.
 * Denominations and number of churches.
 * Historical and biographical information on some individuals (usually high-ranking or famous individuals)