An Nhơn () is a

district-level town A district-level town () is a type of second tier subdivision of Vietnam. District-level towns along with urban districts, districts, municipal cities, and provincial cites have equal status. Also by virtue of Decree No. 42/2009/ND-CP, towns a ...

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 ...

in the

South Central Coast In Vietnam, South Central Coast () and South Central Region () are two terms which can refer to the same region or two regions that do not correspond to each other. South Central Coast (sometimes called "South Central Region") consists of the i ...

region of Vietnam. As of 2003 the district had a population of 187,737. The district covers an area of 255 km². The district capital is Bình Định. It has a population density of 779 people per km², and they are distributed unevenly, with high concentrations in the wards of Bình Định and Đập Đá. 55.50% of the population in the district are of working age. An Nhơn district lies on a plain at 13°49'N and 109°18'E. It is located along the National Route 1 20 km from 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 ...

. The north of the district borders Phù Cát, the east of the district borders Tuy Phước, the west borders Tây Sơn, and the south-west borders the mountainous district of Vân Canh.

Administrative divisions

The district includes 10 communes and 5 wards: *Bình Định (ward) * Đập Đá (ward) *Nhơn Thành (ward) *Nhơn Hưng (ward) *Nhơn Hòa (ward) *Nhơn Mỹ *Nhơn Hạnh *Nhơn Phong *Nhơn Hậu *Nhơn An *Nhơn Phúc *Nhơn Khánh *Nhơn Lộc *Nhơn Thọ *Nhơn Tân

History

During the period 938-1470, An Nhơn was in the heartland of the

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 ...

kingdom, with the capital at

Đồ Bàn Tu () is a Chinese surname, and the 279th family name in Hundred Family Surnames (百家姓). Tu (涂 or 凃) is another Chinese surname. Origin From one of the characters in the name of the ancient city of Zoutu. The legendary emperor Yellow Empe ...

(now in Nhơn Hậu). In 1470, An Nhơn was in Tuy Viễn district. In 1602,

Nguyễn Hoàng Nguyễn Hoàng (28 August 1525 – 20 July 1613) was a Vietnamese official who ruled southern Vietnam from 1558 to his death in 1613. As the first of the Nguyễn lords, he established a powerful state that contested rule over Vietnam for the ne ...

changed the name from Hoài Nhơn to Quy Nhơn. In 1778, the

Tây Sơn dynasty The Tây Sơn dynasty (; , (chữ Hán: 朝西山; Chữ Nôm: 茹西山), officially Đại Việt (Chữ Hán: 大越), was an imperial dynasty of Vietnam. It originated in a revolt led by three peasant brothers with the surname Nguyễn, r ...

settled and developed An Nhơn into the emperor's fortress. In May 1799, after accounting for the stronghold,

Nguyễn Ánh Gia Long (Chữ Hán, Chữ hán: 嘉隆) ( (''Hanoi, North''), (''Ho Chi Minh City, South''); 8 February 1762 – 3 February 1820), born Nguyễn Phúc Ánh (阮福暎) or Nguyễn Ánh (阮暎), was the founding emperor of the Nguyễn dynas ...

changed its name to Bình Định. In 1832,

Minh Mạng Minh Mạng (), also known as Minh Mệnh (, vi-hantu, 明命, lit. "the bright favour of Heaven"; 25 May 1791 – 20 January 1841; born Nguyễn Phúc Đảm, also known as Nguyễn Phúc Kiểu), was the second emperor of the Nguyễ ...

created the district of An Nhơn in its current form.

Climate

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:An Nhon District Districts of Bình Định province County-level towns in Vietnam Populated places in Bình Định province