Đồng Nai is no longer a province. Under Resolution 30/2026/QH16, the entire former Đồng Nai province was established as centrally governed Đồng Nai City with effect from 30 April 2026. The city covers 12,737.18 km², has a population baseline of 4,491,408 and 95 commune-level units—33 wards and 62 communes—with its political-administrative centre in Trấn Biên ward. Its territory had already been enlarged in 2025 through the merger of the former Đồng Nai and Bình Phước provinces. The result is an extraordinary polycentric city-region stretching from the Hồ Chí Minh City metropolitan edge, Biên Hòa–Trấn Biên, Nhơn Trạch and Long Thành International Airport through Long Khánh orchards, Trị An and Cát Tiên to Đồng Xoài, Sóc Bom Bo, Bà Rá–Thác Mơ, Bù Gia Mập forests and the Cambodia-facing Hoa Lư–Lộc Ninh frontier. VietnamWaving therefore treats Đồng Nai as a forest–industry–airport–border megacity, not as a compact conventional city.
RegionSoutheast Vietnam
Travel characterIndustry, logistics and metropolitan access
Suggested stay2 days
Best timeNov–Apr
At a glance
A clear first picture
Vietnam's centrally governed megacity of the Đồng Nai River, Long Thành aviation hub, industrial corridors, Cát Tiên and Bù Gia Mập forests, Trị An waters, orchards, rubber and cashew country, and the Cambodian frontier.
Administrative statusCentrally governed municipalityEstablished under Resolution 30/2026/QH16; effective 30 April 2026Area12,737.18 km²Territory unchanged when the former province became a centrally governed cityPopulation baseline4,491,408Official establishment baselineCommune-level units9533 wards and 62 communes after 10 additional wards were established in April 2026Political-administrative centreTran Bien WardOfficial 2026 city informationFormation geographyFormer Dong Nai + former Binh PhuocMerged at provincial level in 2025 before city establishment in 2026International frontierCambodiaNorthern city territory includes Hoa Lu international border gatewayStrategic growth enginesLong Thanh Airport + planned Free Trade Zone + Hoa Lu Border EconomyIdentified by city leadership in 2026Core identityForest – industry – airport – borderVietnamWaving discovery framing for the enlarged municipality
Travel essentials
Plan the essentials quickly
Practical orientation for a first visit, designed to be expanded with verified local data.
Best timeNov–Apr
December to April is generally the easiest period for road trips and forest travel.
Suggested stay2 days
Extended 2–3 days · Deep 10–14 days
Daily budget
Budget$30–$45
Comfort$60–$95
Premium$135+
Per person / day. VietnamWaving planning estimate, not a quoted market price. Accommodation, private transport, islands and remote-area logistics can materially change actual spend.
Getting thereĐồng Nai is integrated with Hồ Chí Minh City's road network and the national railway. Long Thành International Airport is the city's transformative aviation project, but VietnamWaving should update its operating status by phase from authoritative sources rather than assume full commercial operation. Hoa Lư provides an international land gateway to Cambodia.
Do not plan Đồng Nai like a compact municipality. Use clusters: Trấn Biên/Biên Hòa–Tân Triều; Long Thành–Nhơn Trạch; Long Khánh–Chứa Chan; Trị An–Mã Đà; Định Quán–Cát Tiên; Đồng Xoài–Sóc Bom Bo; Bà Rá–Bù Gia Mập; and Lộc Ninh–Hoa Lư.
DISCOVER
Places to understand
The essential places, neighbourhoods and landscapes that explain the destination.
HERITAGE
Heritage and memory
Historic layers, protected legacies and identities carried across generations.
CULTURE
Culture and identity
Living traditions, local rhythms and the stories behind everyday life.
NATURE
Nature and conservation
Protected landscapes and ecological systems worth understanding and preserving.
TASTE
Food and flavour
Signature dishes and products explained through origin, ingredients and eating culture.
ECONOMY
Economic strengths
Sectors with strategic relevance and long-term development potential.
CONNECTIVITY
Infrastructure and access
The systems connecting people, places, supply chains and markets.
EXPERIENCE
Experiences worth having
Concrete ways to experience the destination through its places, culture and landscapes.
Economic profile
Strengths and investment context
Relative indicators show strategic positioning, while the investment profile adds practical context for early-stage research.
Relative indicators
Strategic strengths
Orientation score · 0–100
Advanced manufacturing and industrial parks98
Logistics and warehousing96
Airport-linked development94
Electronics and supporting industries91
Agriculture and food processing84
Rubber, cashew and plantation processing82
Urban and real-estate development79
Renewable energy and utilities72
Sustainable investment
Opportunity with context
A balanced view of potential, infrastructure and issues that require project-level verification.
Potential advantages
Long Thành International Airport gives the city a national-scale aviation and logistics growth engine
One of Vietnam's deepest manufacturing and industrial-park ecosystems already exists across the southern urban belt
Phước An and regional port connections strengthen multimodal freight potential
Direct adjacency to Hồ Chí Minh City places Đồng Nai inside Vietnam's largest metropolitan-economic region
The former Bình Phước territory adds an international Cambodia frontier and Hoa Lư border economic gateway
Cát Tiên, Trị An, Bù Gia Mập and major forest systems provide exceptional ecological assets for a highly industrial city
Rubber, cashew, fruit and food processing create unusually broad agro-industrial value chains
City leadership in 2026 identifies Long Thành Airport, a planned free trade zone and Hoa Lư border economy as three strategic growth engines
Due diligence
The city is geographically enormous and polycentric; treating it as a conventional compact municipality would produce poor planning and travel assumptions
Long Thành airport, expressways and the proposed free trade zone must be represented by verified current operating status, not future intent
Rapid urbanisation around Long Thành, Nhơn Trạch and industrial corridors creates major land-use, housing and infrastructure pressure
Industrial growth must be balanced against Đồng Nai River water security, air quality and pollution control
Cát Tiên, Bù Gia Mập, Mã Đà and biosphere landscapes require conservation-first development
Rubber and cashew economies face commodity, climate, labour and land-transition risks
Border logistics growth requires coordinated customs, security and cross-border infrastructure
The merged city's identity must integrate former Đồng Nai and former Bình Phước rather than allowing the northern territory to become a secondary appendix
Timeline
How the place took shape
Ten additional wards are established
Administrative restructuring converts Trảng Bom, Long Thành, Trị An, Nhơn Trạch, Tân Khai, Xuân Lộc, Tân Phú, Lộc Ninh, Dầu Giây and Đồng Phú into wards.
Resolution 30/2026/QH16 establishes Dong Nai City
The National Assembly establishes centrally governed Đồng Nai City on the entire territory and population of the former province.
Dong Nai officially becomes a centrally governed municipality
The resolution takes effect; the city has 95 commune-level units comprising 33 wards and 62 communes.
Dong Nai develops as an airport–industry–border megacity
Long Thành aviation, a planned free trade zone, Hoa Lư border economy, manufacturing and environmental assets define the next development phase.
Former Dong Nai and Binh Phuoc provinces merge
A new Đồng Nai province is created, combining the industrial-metropolitan southeast with the rubber, cashew, forest and Cambodia-border north.
Rubber transforms Dong Nai and Binh Phuoc landscapes
Plantations reshape labour, settlement, transport and industry across territories now united within one municipality.
Border, plantation and forest landscapes become major wartime theatres
Tà Thiết, Lộc Ninh, An Lộc, Sóc Bom Bo and other sites become embedded in modern national history.
Van Mieu Tran Bien is established
The temple-of-literature tradition becomes a lasting symbol of education and cultural institutions in the southern region.
Trấn Biên–Biên Hòa becomes a major southern administrative and cultural centre
The Đồng Nai River corridor develops into an important settlement, trade and cultural landscape in southern Vietnam.
Deep settlement history appears in Dong Nai archaeology
Sites such as Hàng Gòn and other archaeological landscapes demonstrate a human history far older than the modern industrial city.