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Bình Lục District Huyện Bình Lục
District
Seal
Country	Vietnam
Region	Red River Delta
Province	Hà Nam
Capital	Bình Mỹ
Area
• Total	60 sq mi (155 km)
Population
• Total	158,023
Time zone	UTC+07:00 (Indochina Time)

Bình Lục is a rural district of Hà Nam province in the Red River Delta region of Vietnam.

History

Its name Bình Lục means "the flat land". However, it is also a Hanese phonetic way an older name : K'lu, B'lu, or Kẻ Lủ, Phù Lỗ. Its means "buffalo" in ancient Annamese language.

This rural district covers an area of 155 km. The district capital lies at Bình Mỹ town. As of 2003 the district had a population of 158,023.

According to the records of a number of indigenous officials and residents, the topography of Hà Nam province was lower than the sea level in the past, most of the swamps with many crocodiles. Around the 15th century, Bình Lục district was an oasis and from this location that the local people began to spread around to reclaim.

In the 19th and 20th centuries, when Hà Nam province began to form, Bình Lục acted as a cultural center of the region with the emergence of many families with achievements from imperial examinations.

Culture

By Philippe Papin's reseaches, at the beginning of Christ, the entire Red River Delta was still a flooded bay so almost no humans reside.

Bình Lục rural district is where scientists excavated six bronze drums such as Ngọc Lũ, Vũ Bị and An Lão in the 1960s. This coincides with a number of officials' reports on shipwreck by storms or pirates in this region about the Three Kingdoms period.

Bình Lục is where Nguyễn Khuyến's father was born.

See also

• Duy Tiên
• Thanh Liêm
• Vụ Bản
• Mỹ Lộc

Notes and references

1. ^ "Districts of Vietnam". Statoids. Retrieved March 13, 2009.

Further reading

Bibliography

• George Coedes. The Making of South East Asia, 2nd ed. University of California Press, 1983.
• Trần Ngọc Thêm. Cơ sở văn hóa Việt Nam (The Foundation of Vietnamese Culture), 504 pages. Publishing by Nhà xuất bản Đại học Tổng hợp TPHCM. Saigon, Vietnam, 1995.
• Li Tana (2011). Jiaozhi (Giao Chỉ) in the Han period Tongking Gulf. In Cooke, Nola ; Li Tana ; Anderson, James A. (eds.). The Tongking Gulf Through History. University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 39–44. ISBN 9780812205022.
• Li Tana, Towards an environmental history of the eastern Red River Delta, Vietnam, c.900–1400, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 2014.
• Samuel Baron, Christoforo Borri, Olga Dror, Keith W. Taylor (2018). Views of Seventeenth-Century Vietnam : Christoforo Borri on Cochinchina and Samuel Baron on Tonkin. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-1-501-72090-1.

External links

• Hà Nam tăng trưởng kinh tế-xã hội đứng thứ hai vùng Đồng bằng sông Hồng (vi)

v t e Places adjacent to Bình Lục district
Hanoi Hưng Yên Thái Bình Hanoi Hà Nam Nam Định Hòa Bình Ninh Bình Ninh Bình

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v t e Districts of the Red River Delta
Hanoi city	Urban districts Ba Đình Bắc Từ Liêm Cầu Giấy Đống Đa Hà Đông Hai Bà Trưng Hoàn Kiếm Hoàng Mai Long Biên Nam Từ Liêm Tây Hồ Thanh Xuân Sơn Tây town Ba Vì Chương Mỹ Đan Phượng Đông Anh Gia Lâm Hoài Đức Mê Linh Mỹ Đức Phú Xuyên Phúc Thọ Quốc Oai Sóc Sơn Thanh Oai Thạch Thất Thanh Trì Thường Tín Ứng Hòa
Haiphong city	Urban districts An Dương Dương Kinh Đồ Sơn Hải An Hồng Bàng Kiến An Lê Chân Ngô Quyền Thủy Nguyên city An Lão Bạch Long Vĩ Cát Hải Kiến Thụy Tiên Lãng Vĩnh Bảo
Bắc Ninh province	Bắc Ninh city Từ Sơn city Quế Võ town Thuận Thành town Gia Bình Lương Tài Tiên Du Yên Phong
Hà Nam province	Phủ Lý city Duy Tiên town Bình Lục Kim Bảng town Lý Nhân Thanh Liêm
Hải Dương province	Chí Linh city Hải Dương city Kinh Môn town Bình Giang Cẩm Giàng Gia Lộc Kim Thành Nam Sách Ninh Giang Thanh Hà Thanh Miện Tứ Kỳ
Hưng Yên province	Hưng Yên city Mỹ Hào town Ân Thi Khoái Châu Kim Động Phù Cừ Tiên Lữ Văn Giang Văn Lâm Yên Mỹ
Nam Định province	Nam Định city Giao Thủy Hải Hậu Nam Trực Nghĩa Hưng Trực Ninh Vụ Bản Xuân Trường Ý Yên
Ninh Bình province	Hoa Lư city Tam Điệp city Gia Viễn Kim Sơn Nho Quan Yên Khánh Yên Mô
Thái Bình province	Thái Bình city Đông Hưng Hưng Hà Kiến Xương Quỳnh Phụ Thái Thụy Tiền Hải Vũ Thư
Vĩnh Phúc province	Phúc Yên city Vĩnh Yên city Bình Xuyên Lập Thạch Sông Lô Tam Đảo Tam Dương Vĩnh Tường Yên Lạc
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