Diêu Trì is a town of Tuy Phước District, in Bình Định Province, Vietnam. It had a population of 11,671 in 1999. Diêu Trì is most noted for the Diêu Trì Railway Station on the North–South Railway (Vietnam), North–South Railway (Reunification Express) which connects by a branch line to Quy Nhơn Railway Station and the city of Quy Nhơn, population of 250,000 people, ten kilometres to the east. The history of the town is closely linked with the building of rail transport in Vietnam, railways in Vietnam, and during the French colonial period the rail yards were a target for the leafleting by independence activists.David Willson Del Testa ''Paint the trains red: labor, nationalism, and the railroads in French Colonial Indochina, 1898-1945.'' 2001 Page 300 "In a last, desperate move to keep it going, Nguyễn Văn Nguyên, a lutteur, was sent by car to distribute leaflets at the rail yards at Diêu Trì, Tourane, and eventually to Hanoi. After fifty hours of travel, Nguyễn had to go underground in Thanh Hóa."

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{{Binh Dinh Province Populated places in Bình Định province Townships in Vietnam