Duc Tho
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Đức Thọ is a rural district
Districts of Vietnam
||The provinces of Vietnam are divided into counties , provincial cities , and county-level towns .The centrally-controlled municipalities are subdivided into rural counties , county-level towns , and urban districts , which then subdivided into wards ....

 (huyện) of Ha Tinh Province in the North Central Coast
Bac Trung Bo
Bắc Trung Bộ is one of the regions of Vietnam. It consists of six provinces: Thanh Hóa, Nghệ An, Hà Tĩnh, Quảng Bình, Quảng Trị, Thừa Thiên-Huế...

 region of Vietnam
Vietnam
Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...

. The village of Đông Thái
Dong Thai
Đông Thái is a village in Đức Thọ District, Ha Tinh Province in Vietnam. It is notable for being the home village of Phan Dinh Phung, the most notable Vietnamese anti-colonial leader of the 19th century. It was also the home village of Hoang Cao Khai, who was the viceroy of Tonkin during the...

, where the noted 19th century anti-colonial leader Phan Đình Phùng
Phan Dinh Phung
Phan Đình Phùng was a Vietnamese revolutionary who led rebel armies against French colonial forces in Vietnam. He was the most prominent of the Confucian court scholars involved in anti-French military campaigns in the 19th century and was cited after his death by 20th-century nationalists as a...

 was born, is located in Đức Thọ. As of 2003 the district had a population of 117,730. The district covers an area of 203 km². The district capital lies at Duc Tho
Duc Tho
Đức Thọ is a rural district of Ha Tinh Province in the North Central Coast region of Vietnam. The village of Đông Thái, where the noted 19th century anti-colonial leader Phan Đình Phùng was born, is located in Đức Thọ. As of 2003 the district had a population of 117,730. The district covers an...

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