Diêu Trì is a town of
Tuy Phước District, in
Bình Định Province
Bình Định (平定) was a former northern coastal province in the South Central Coast region, the Central of Vietnam. It borders Quảng Ngãi to the north, Phú Yên to the south, Gia Lai to the west and the South China Sea to the ea ...
, 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 (Reunification Express) which connects by a
branch line
A branch line is a secondary railway line which branches off a more important through route, usually a main line. A very short branch line may be called a spur line. Branch lines may serve one or more industries, or a city or town not located ...
to
Quy Nhơn Railway Station and the city of
Quy Nhơn
Quy Nhon ( ) is a coastal city in Bình Định province in central Vietnam. It is composed of 16 wards and five communes with a total of . Quy Nhon was the capital of the former Bình Định province. As of 2022 its population was 481.110. H ...
, population of 250,000 people, ten kilometres to the east. The history of the town is closely linked with the building of
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."]
References
{{Binh Dinh Province
Populated places in Bình Định province
Townships in Vietnam