The name of a road or roundabout consists of 3 sections of information:
(currently Waze does not support "province level" in Vietnam)
In addition, for the field of "Alternate Name", ......?
Street
Name for Streets
Street names shall be used in accordance to the following formtas:
- Motorway (Cao tốc): use the original street name??
- QL, TL, HL: code(space)number
- Examples: QL 1, TL 44, HL 5
- Normal Streets: use the original street name (without prefix "Đường").
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If you do not understand Vietnamese, there could be chances of mis-interpreting the street names. Example: A street with the name "Dương Bạch Mai", could be mis-interpreted as "Đường Bạch Mai", therefore used as "Bạch Mai". |
Name for Roundabouts
Do not input the field of "Street" for roundabouts. Tick "None".
City
(under development)
For more information on the concept of "City", read this page.
Municipalities
For municipalities, respective city names (without TP) shall be used, except that Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh shall be "TP Hồ Chí Minh".
- Hà Nội
- TP Hồ Chí Minh
- Hải Phòng
- Cần Thơ
- Đà Nẵng
Provincial Cities / Counties
- For cities which do NOT share the same names with their provinces, just use the city names.
- Example: Vinh (Vinh City of Nghệ An Province)
- For cities which share the same names with their provinces, use the city names with prefix TP.
- Example: TP Bắc Giang (Bắc Giang City of Bắc Giang Province)
- There are special cases where the same city/county names are used in different provinces. In such cases, province names shall be appended with the county names.
- Examples:
- Châu Thành, Trà Vinh (Châu Thành County of Trà Vinh Province)
- Châu Thành, An Giang (Châu Thành County of An Giang Province)
- Châu Thành, Kiên Giang (Châu Thành County of Kiên Giang Province)
Country
This field shall be selected as "Vietnam".
