Tay Ninh after the merger: what changed for visitors

The capital moved south

Before the merger, the capital of Tay Ninh was Tay Ninh city, near Ba Den Mountain. The capital of Long An was the city of Tan An, on the road from Ho Chi Minh City to the Mekong Delta. The merged province has its political and administrative centre in Tan An. The wards of central Tan An were combined in June 2025 into a single ward named Long An, so the name of the old province survives as the name of its capital ward.

Districts are gone; communes and wards remain

The province is now divided directly into 96 communes and wards. Former district and town names such as Hoa Thanh, Tan Bien, Duong Minh Chau and Tan Hung still appear on older maps, in guidebooks, on bus boards and on many shop signs, but they are no longer administrative units. Several old wards and communes were combined into larger new ones, often taking one of the old names.

The Mekong side is now part of Tay Ninh

The Plain of Reeds wetlands, including the Lang Sen reserve, and the rice country around Tan An now belong to Tay Ninh. A trip described as "Tay Ninh" may therefore mean the mountain in the north or the delta in the south. Ask which, because they are far apart.

1. Look for the ward or commune and the province. An address now runs: street, ward or commune, Tay Ninh. There is no district in between.
2. If a booking or map pin shows an old district name, it is probably still correct on the ground. Search the place name, not the administrative line.
3. Bus boards and coach tickets often keep the old place names, for example Hoa Thanh or Toa Thanh for the Holy See.
4. For the Lang Sen area, "Tan Hung, Long An" is still what most people will recognise; the reserve is now in Tay Ninh.
5. For anything official, such as reporting a lost passport or a police matter, ask which ward or commune office covers the address; staff deal with the change daily.

Throughout these pages we say "the former Tay Ninh" for the northern half and "the former Long An" for the southern half, and we give old district names in brackets where they help. That is not resistance to the change; it is how most signs, maps and people still describe the places. We will drop old names when they stop being useful.