Uông Bí is a district town

Districts of Vietnam

||The provinces of Vietnam are divided into counties , provincial cities , and county-level towns .The centrally-controlled municipalities are subdivided into rural counties , county-level towns , and urban districts , which then subdivided into wards ....

 of Quang Ninh province

Quang Ninh Province

Quảng Ninh is a large province located along the northeastern coast of Vietnam. The province is home to Ha Long Bay, a World Heritage Site. The provincial capital is Ha Long. Nearly 80 per cent of the province is mountainous with abundant land, forest water and mineral resources. Nearly 90 per...

 in the northeastern

Dong Bac

The Northeast is the region at the north of the Red River Delta, Vietnam. Northeast called to distinguish them from the Northwest, but it's actually in the north and northeast of Hanoi, wider than Việt Bắc. The northeast is one of three sub-regions of northern Vietnam...

 region of Vietnam

Vietnam

Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...

. As of 2003 the district had a population of 98,949. The district covers an area of 240 km². The district capital lies at Uong Bi.

Administrative divisions

The districts contains 7 phường: Vàng Danh, Bắc Sơn, Thanh Sơn, Quang Trung, Trưng Vương, Nam Khê, Yên Thanh and 4 communes: Thượng Yên Công, Phương Đông, Phương Nam, and Điền Công.