Đập Đá is a ward (phường) in
south central Vietnam
Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's List of countries and depende ...
. It is located in
An Nhon Town in
Bình Định Province.
Geography and Infrastructure
Đập Đá is located in Binh Dinh’s main lowland plain in the south of the province. Đập Đá River, part of the
Côn River delta, flows through the town.
Đập Đá is located along
National Road 1, Vietnam’s most important road. It is also not far from National Road 19 (7 km to the south), which connects to the ports of
Quy Nhon (23 km to the south-east), and the
Central Highlands in the west.
[Vietnam Road Atlas (Tập Bản đồ Giao thông Đường bộ Việt Nam). Cartographic Publishing House (Vietnam), 2004]
Phu Cat Airport is within 10 km to the north of the town.
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History and Heritage Sites
Đập Đá shares a location with the former city-state of Vijaya
Vijaya may refer to:
Places
* Vijaya (Champa), a city-state and former capital of the historic Champa in what is now Vietnam
* Vijayawada, a city in Andhra Pradesh, India
People
* Prince Vijaya of Sri Lanka (fl. 543–505 BC), earliest recorde ...
of Champa
Champa (Cham language, Cham: ꨌꩌꨛꨩ, چمڤا; ; 占城 or 占婆) was a collection of independent Chams, Cham Polity, polities that extended across the coast of what is present-day Central Vietnam, central and southern Vietnam from ...
. The ruins of the citadel are just around 3 km from the town centre.[ Vijaya was the capital of Champa until its defeat by the Vietnamese in 1471.
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References
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Populated places in Bình Định province