Bình Lục district
Old district of old Ha Nam province, Vietnam
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 km2. 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.
“Bình Lục district” enters the record as old district of old Ha Nam province, Vietnam. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bình, district and province can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4914337. Authority coordinates are 20.500, 106.029. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2003.
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