(Adopted by the 11th ordinary meeting of the Government of the Southern Province on 15 August 2013, No. 156 of 6 September 2013, by the People's Government Order No. 156 of the Southern Province, which came into force on 15 October 2013)

Chapter I General

Article 1. To strengthen geographical names management, achieve standardization, adapt to economic development, internal and external engagement and people's living needs, develop this approach in line with the Geographical Names Regulations.

Article 2, this approach applies to the designation of geographical names in the administrative region of the province, the use of standard geographical names, the placement of geographical names and related management activities.

Article 3

(i) Names of natural geographical entities such as mountains, rivers, lakes, springs, islands, bars, beachs, wetlands and grassland;

(ii) Names of administrative districts such as provinces, municipalities, districts, communes, towns, street offices;

(iii) Regional names of grass-roots self-government organizations, such as the Village People's Committee, the Resident Council;

(iv) Urban and communes, the roads of the town's people's government sites ( Street, Toolkit), the name of the natural villages;

(v) The gates of the dwellers' homes (news, portals) and units;

(vi) Names of the new urban areas, industrial assembly zones, industrial zones, development zones, insurance areas, coal fields, oil fields, agricultural areas, forest areas, fishing zones, mines and mining areas;

(vii) Names of specialized facilities such as desktops, stations, ports, sites, roads, railways, tunnels, water treasury, channels, dams, power stations;

(viii) The name of the memorials and tourist sites, such as the theatres, the tourist holidays, parks, public squares, the monuments;

(ix) Names of large buildings, such as hotels, chambers of commerce, write-offs and residential areas;

(x) Other names of significance.

Article IV should be guided by the principles of harmonization and responsibilities.

The Committee on Geographical Names at the district level is responsible for coordinating major matters in the work of geographical names in the current administration, and for the head of the civil affairs sector in the current administration.

Departments such as public safety, finance, tourism, housing urban and rural construction, land resources, transport, business administration, press releases should be managed in accordance with their respective responsibilities.

Article 5

Chapter II

Article 6. The name of the place of names, the more name and the name shall be authorized in accordance with the procedures and powers set out in the Geographical Names Regulations and the present approach. No unit or individual shall be allowed to name, name and distribute the name. No unauthorized geographical names shall be made publicly available.

Article 7. The name of the name of the name of the place of the name and the fact that the name should respect the history and status of the place of the name, maintain the relative stability of the place of the name, and protect the historical geographical names that are important cultural values and commemorative.

Article 8. The name of the name of the name shall be subject to the following provisions:

(i) To promote people's solidarity and the modernization of socialism, to respect the aspirations of the local population and to achieve consensus with the parties concerned;

(ii) In general, no name shall be made, and the use of names of national leaders, foreigners and foreign names;

(iii) The name of the town within the same province (communes, areas), the name of the same town, the name of the natural village in the town, the roads at the same city and town, the residence of the town's Government (the streets, gallery), parks, the name of the public square brackets, and avoiding the same voice;

(iv) The name of the professional facility shall be consistent with the name of the location;

(v) Be accurate, normative, avoiding the use of remote words and without the use of the intrusive, transcendant, etc.;

(vi) Geographical names should include both exclusive and general names, and no single name shall be used as a place of name and no single name shall be added;

(vii) The roads of cities and communes, the town's people's government sites (the streets, gallery) should be named in accordance with the requirements of stratification, orderization and normativeization.

Article 9

(i) In any case that undermines the sovereignty and national dignity of our territory, with the nature of national discrimination and impeding national unity, it must be more worthy of insulting the nature and extreme customs of the people of the workforce, as well as other geographical names that are contrary to the provisions of national laws, regulations and methods;

(ii) Subject to the geographical names set out in article 8, paragraphs 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, of this approach, making them more known, with the consent of the parties and the local mass;

(iii) More than one or more words, and a single name and word should be identified;

(iv) No change shall be made if there is no apparent scope for the above-mentioned, irreplaceable and local popular consent to be changed.

Article 10

(i) The name of the natural geographical entity that is well known at the national and international levels or involved in the province, which is to be consulted by the provincial civil affairs sector, subject to approval by the Government of the province;

(ii) The name of the natural geospatial entity in the area of the administration of the two provinces, which is submitted by the Government of the people of the province concerned, has been reviewed and submitted to the post-community government for approval by the provincial civil affairs sector;

(iii) The name of the natural geographical entity within the province's jurisdiction covering more than two district-level administrative areas, which is submitted by the relevant communal government, has been reviewed and submitted to the Government of the municipality under the jurisdiction of the province for approval;

(iv) The name of the natural geographic entity in the district administration area, which is presented by the local level of civil affairs, is submitted to the Government for approval.

Article 11 naming and nameing of the administrative area is handled in accordance with the State Department's provisions on administrative district management.

Article 12. The designation, name and place of the regional name of the grass-roots self-government organization, which was reviewed by the localities, the Government of the town or the street offices, after discussions at the villagers' conference or the resident's meeting, and was reviewed by the Civil Affairs Department for approval and comment by the post-participated people's Government.

Article 13 naming of the name of the resident, in accordance with the following procedures and competences:

(i) The name of cities and communes, the roads of the town's Government ( Street, Toolkit) and the name of the more name, which is submitted by the civil affairs sector in the province of the province, in the district, and in the city of the city, for approval by the Government;

(ii) The name of the natural village, the name of the village, the name of the village, and after the discussion at the villagers' conference, was reviewed by the localities, the Government of the town or the street offices, and the Civil Affairs Sector was reviewed and submitted to the Government for approval.

Article 14. The gates of the resident's premises, portals and units are submitted by the owner or the manager and the unit to the civil affairs department of the province and the district (market) and are issued by the Civil Affairs Department to the applicant after the establishment of the number.

Article 15. The name of the professional area is more named and approved in accordance with the following procedures and competences:

(i) Designation, name and name of professional zones such as industrial assembly, industrial zones, development zones, insurance areas, coal fields, oil fields, agro-zone, forest areas, fishing zones, mines, mining areas, etc.

(ii) The name and name of the new urban area under the jurisdiction of the province, which is more prominent, is submitted by the Government of the municipality of the province, which has been reviewed and submitted to the Government of the province for approval.

Article 16 nams and names of specialized facilities, which are submitted by the management units of the specialized facilities to their professional authorities, with the consent of the host Government, are approved by the professional authorities.

Article 17 naming, nameing, more name, by the management units of the Metropolitan and tourist sites, and subject to approval by the specialized authorities after the consent of the local civil affairs department.

Article 18 Bindings (hocs), commercial sites, writings, etc., and names of the residential areas, are more named and named by their owner or manager to be placed in the civil affairs sector under the jurisdiction of the province of the location.

Article 19 naming and nameing of important geographical names should be consulted by the public and the relevant authorities, and hearings may be held if necessary.

Article 20 excludes geographical names for reasons such as natural changes, adjustments in administrative areas and rural and urban construction, and shall be distributed in accordance with the names of geographical names, more named procedures and competencies established by the Geographical Names Regulations and this approach.

Article 21

More than the people at the district level should strengthen the protection of historical names and encourage the active participation of relevant departments, units and individuals in historical geospatial studies, protection and advocacy.

The above-ranking civil affairs sector should establish historical names and historical names protection names, with no indication of the use of geographical names in historical names protection names.

Chapter III Use and management of standard geographical names

Article 2 provides for the granting of geographical names in accordance with the Geographical Names Regulations and the methodology.

Standard geographical names should be used in the State's publication of the Standard Handication and be given a standard voice in Hanoi. In the use of the Hanoi podium, it should be in line with the provisions of the Yunic Audiovisual Programme, published by the State, and the Chinese Hein-Chief Rules.

National language names should be translated in accordance with the relevant national provisions.

Standard geographical names should be used in the following contexts:

(i) Exact agreements, documents, etc.;

(ii) Publication, documentation, etc., by organs, social groups, business units, civil service units;

(iii) newspapers, books, radio, television, maps and information networks;

(iv) A variety of symbols, brandings, advertisements, contracts, documents, printing, etc.;

(v) Public publication of telephone numbers, postal codes, etc.;

(vi) The processing of business tax registration, the management of householdities and the management of property.

Article 24

Standard toponymic publications for professional facilities, memorials and tourist sites are codified by the approval of naming and more specialized authorities.

The use of geographical names, such as organs, social groups, business units, civil service units, non-commercial units, should be subject to the publication of topographic books by the civil service or professional authorities.

More than 25 per cent of the civil affairs sector at the district level should establish a sound information management system to strengthen the management and application of geographic information systems in the management of the topographical archives and to provide information services to society.

The above-mentioned civil affairs sector should strengthen the management of geographical names and conduct monitoring of the use of geographical names by law, and should be responsible for the relocation of time limits to the geographical names identified in the examination incompatible with the provisions of the Geographical Names Regulations and this approach.

Chapter IV

Article 27 Governments of more people at the district level should entrust the authorities with the establishment of geographical names symbols at the necessary local level.

The designations of geographical names of the executive regional, resident, archaeological, professional and important natural geospatial entities are established, maintained and managed by the Civil Affairs Department.

Geographical names of professional facilities, memorials and tourist sites are established, maintained and managed by their management units.

Article 28 Requirements for the creation, maintenance and management of geographical names symbols are assumed in accordance with the following provisions:

(i) The designations of geographical names of the executive regional community, the place of the inhabitants, the scripts, the professional area and the important natural geospatial entities are borne by the Government of the people at the district level;

(ii) Geographical names of professional facilities, memorials and tourist sites are assumed by the establishment units.

No units or individuals shall be allowed to set up, mobile, painted, garbage and destroy geographical names.

There is a need to move or dismantle geographical names symbols, either by consensus with the placeing or unit of the name mark and to bear the associated costs, such as moving or dismantling.

The above-mentioned civil affairs sector should conduct oversight inspections with the relevant authorities regarding the location, maintenance of the name mark, finding that one of the following cases should be informed of the replacement of the establishment or unit:

(i) The designation of geographical names is not used for standard geographical names or for a variety of forms, writings, writings that are incompatible with national standards;

(ii) Geographical names have been more prominent but no change in geographical names;

(iii) Geographical names are dilapidated, ambiguous or inadequate.

Chapter V Legal responsibility

Article 31: The Civil Affairs Department and other relevant sector staff are one of the following acts in the management of geographical names, and are subject to the law of the competent body responsible for direct responsibility and other direct responsibilities:

(i) Not subject to a review of the procedures and terms of reference for the designation, name and distribution of names, in accordance with the Geographical Names Regulations and the present methodology;

(ii) The designation of geographical names in accordance with the provisions;

(iii) Other abuses of authority, omissions, provocative fraud.

In violation of this approach, there are one of the following acts, which are being corrected by the civil affairs sector at the local district level, which is less than €200 million, by a fine of up to 1000.

(i) Authorize the name, name and distribution of names;

(ii) Public use of unauthorized geographical names;

(iii) Resistance, movement, alteration, insecure, and damage to geographical names.

Annex VI

Article 33 of this approach is implemented effective 15 October 2013.