Da Nang districts in 2026: the new wards for Hai Chau, Son Tra and other old addresses

Your hotel booking says "Son Tra District," the address on a 2026 receipt says "An Hai Ward," and a guide written before 2025 sends you to "An Hai Bac." All three can describe the same few streets in Da Nang (Đà Nẵng). So which name is right, and what became of the Da Nang districts?

This guide explains the 2025 change, shows which new wards replaced each old district and has a lookup for old ward, commune and district names across the city.

Does Da Nang still have districts?

Read and write Da Nang addresses with the ward or commune, not the district. Vietnam ended its district level of local government on July 1, 2025, and since then Da Nang has been divided directly into 94 units: 23 wards, 70 communes and the Hoang Sa special zone. The 2025 reorganization also combined Da Nang and Quang Nam province, including Hoi An (Hội An), into one city that kept the name Da Nang.

Before the change, the city had six urban districts, Hoa Vang rural district and the Hoang Sa island district. The new wards and communes began work on July 1, 2025, under Resolution 1659 of the National Assembly Standing Committee.

The old names have not disappeared from the web. On October 2, 2026, Hostelworld listed hostels "near Hai Chau District," so it helps to know which new ward an old district became.

What the old districts became

Find your old district in the table to see which new wards or communes it became part of. The table shows Da Nang's districts as they stood on June 30, 2025, plus Hoi An and Dien Ban from former Quang Nam; the lookup further down covers the rest of former Quang Nam.

Five of Da Nang's seven old mainland districts were split between two or three new wards, Hoa Vang was split among seven units, and some new wards took in parts of two old districts. Official Vietnamese spellings carry accents, for example Sơn Trà and An Hải; the lookup accepts names with or without them.

Apart from Hoa Lien commune, each ward or commune that existed on June 30, 2025 went whole into one new unit. In the old Son Tra district, for example, An Hai Bac ward went into An Hai ward, while Tho Quang went into Son Tra ward. The An Thuong area was in My An ward, which became part of Ngu Hanh Son ward.

To pick an area for your stay by ward, see where to stay in Da Nang; for the sights in each part of the city, see things to do in Da Nang. For Hoi An's old town, see Hoi An Ancient Town for visiting it and Da Nang to Hoi An for getting there.

Find the new ward for an old address

Type the ward, commune or district written on the old address, with or without Vietnamese accents. The lookup covers the 280 wards, communes and townships of Da Nang and former Quang Nam that existed on June 30, 2025, plus names that had already gone in an earlier merger on January 1, 2025.

One old commune was split in two. Resolution 1659 put part of Hoa Lien commune into Hai Van ward and the rest into Lien Chieu ward without saying where the line runs, so for an address there, ask the ward office or your host which ward applies.

Names that changed on January 1, 2025

Some addresses use ward names from before January 1, 2025, when Da Nang merged or redrew wards in four of its districts. The changes included Hai Chau I and Hai Chau II becoming Hai Chau ward, An Hai Dong and An Hai Tay becoming An Hai Nam ward, and Vinh Trung joining Thac Gian ward. In Lien Chieu, part of Hoa Minh ward moved to Thanh Khe Tay ward.

Six months later, those wards were merged again: the Hai Chau ward of January 2025 became part of a larger Hai Chau ward, Thac Gian went into Thanh Khe ward, and An Hai Nam went into An Hai ward. The lookup includes these older names and follows each one through both changes. In the former Quang Nam province, Nong Son district joined Que Son district on January 1, 2025, so an older address may give Nong Son as the district.

Sources and how we checked

We used the ward and commune names in the full texts of the resolutions in Vietnam's Official Gazette and in the National Statistics Office's table of old and new units, which also gives the district each old ward belonged to. We checked all 282 Da Nang rows in that table (280 old wards, communes and townships, with Hoa Lien listed twice, plus Hoang Sa district) against the text of Resolution 1659, and all matched. For the dates of the reform we used a government legal portal and a news report; we viewed these pages on October 2, 2026, and the photo pages are listed at the end.

• Official Gazette (in Vietnamese): Resolution 1659/NQ-UBTVQH15 on Da Nang's wards and communes (June 16, 2025); Resolution 1251/NQ-UBTVQH15 on Da Nang and Resolution 1241/NQ-UBTVQH15 on Quang Nam, both in effect from January 1, 2025.
• National Statistics Office, table of old and new administrative units (file dated October 23, 2025, in Vietnamese).
• Can Tho City legal information portal, district level ends on July 1, 2025 (Resolution 203/2025/QH15) (June 17, 2025, in Vietnamese).
• VnEconomy, Resolution 202/2025/QH15 combining Quang Nam and Da Nang (June 30, 2025, in Vietnamese).
• Danang Fantasticity, An Thuong walking street and night market, My An ward (July 17, 2023, in Vietnamese).
• Hostelworld, hostels near Hai Chau District.
• Photos: Danang Fantasticity, Da Nang tourism in 2025 (January 29, 2026); Son Tra peninsula (August 5, 2025); Da Nang in Afar's top destinations for 2026 (December 5, 2025).

Updated: October 2, 2026