Đông Hà

Đông Hà is the former provincial city and capital of Quảng Trị province, Vietnam. As of 2024 the population of the city was about 164,228 people. It lies 110.4 kilometres north of Huế and 163 kilometres south of Đồng Hới in Quảng Bình province. During the Vietnam War it was the northernmost town in South Vietnam and the location of the strategically important Đông Hà Combat Base of the United States Marine Corps, which supported Marine positions along the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone, and the North Vietnamese army took the town on 28 April 1972 during the Easter Offensive and it was never regained by the South. The city is situated at the crossroads of National Highway 1A and Route 9, part of the East-West Economic Corridor, and lies on the North-South Railway, served by Đông Hà Railway Station. Đông Hà has a tropical monsoon climate, Köppen Am, with a wet season from August to December. The singer Như Quỳnh was born in Đông Hà in 1970.