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Quảng Trị
District-level town (Class-4)
Quảng Trị Town Thị xã Quảng Trị
The Quảng Trị Citadel built in 1824
Seal
Quảng Trị
Coordinates:16°44′49″N107°11′40″E / 16.74694°N 107.19444°E /16.74694; 107.19444
Country	Vietnam
Region	North Central Coast
Province	Quảng Trị
Established	16 September 1989
Area
• District-level town (Class-4)	74 km2 (29 sq mi)
• Urban	8.27 km2 (3.19 sq mi)
Population  (2019)
• District-level town (Class-4)	23,356
• Density	315/km2 (820/sq mi)
• Urban	19,390
• Urban density	2,340/km2 (6,070/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+7 (ICT)

Quảng Trị (listen^ⓘ) is adistrict-level town inQuảng Trị Province in theNorth Central Coast region ofVietnam. It is second of two municipalities in the province after the provincial capitalĐông Hà.

The Sino-Vietnamese name Quảng Trị (廣治) was given by Vietnamese Confucian administrators.

A major feature of the town is the Quảng Trị Citadel, built in 1824, as a military bastion during the 4th year of the reign ofMinh Mạng. It is an example ofVauban architecture and it later became the administrative head office of theNguyễn dynasty in Quảng Trị Province (1809–1945).^[1]

Quảng Trị was an area of early Catholic presence and by 1913, the nearest railway station to the starting point of theLa Vang pilgrimage.^[2]

During the Vietnam War, when the province was the South's border with North Vietnam, it suffered amajor attack in the January 1968Tet Offensive and it was the only South Vietnamese provincial capital to becaptured by the North Vietnamese forces in the 1972Easter Offensive before beingrecaptured in September 1972. During theVietnam War the city became what some regard as the most bombed city in the world.

• Hieu Van Le, Governor of the Australian state ofSouth Australia, was born here in 1954.
• Vân Khánh (born 1978), folk singer

• The 1968 Tet Offensive Battles of Quang Tri City and Hue

16°44′49″N107°11′38″E / 16.7469°N 107.194°E /16.7469; 107.194

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