Quỳnh Lðu is a rural district of Nghá» An province, in the northmost part of the lanky Central Coast region of Vietnam.
In the area of Quỳnh Lðu rural district about 1956, an international shocking political event occurred, which was often called the Quỳnh Lðu uprising (Khá»Âi nghéa Quỳnh Lðu) by South Vietnamese historians.
At least two Catholic villages have been armed to protest the brutal land reform policy of the Central Government of North Vietnam. This action has bloated the fire of anger across the North and caused the Democratic Republic of Vietnam leaders to seriously divide.
In order to extinguish the effect of the oil spot, the government of Há» ChàMinh personally mobilized two elite divisions to his homeland "to punish the rebellious" (dẹp tan bè-là © phản-ÃÂá»Âng). Although the evolution of the event was lighter by communist communication organizations, the information about it still followed the fugents to go around the world.
The Ngô ÃÂình Diá»Âm government has made this opportunity to organize an international press conference in Saigon to denounce the crimes of the North regime. During the next two years, the people of South Vietnam continued to organize marches and exhibitions to express their communion with the fate of their compatriots in the North of the 17th parallel. From then until 1975 when the Republic of Vietnam collapsed, the catastrophic event in Quỳnh Lðu was included in the history textbook.
Its name Quỳnh-lðu was a Hanese word, what appeared in 1430 by the Early Lê Dynasty. By scholars and Lê ChàQuế's ideas, it could be a negative way of Malayo-Polynesian name Keluar or Kuala ("the seaport"), which is repeated in many locations along the Pacific Ocean. Previously, it belonged to an area without official boundaries, which was still called as Vá»Âng-giang by some local officials from Tang Dynasty.
This rural district is often said to be the hometown of an 18th-century literary figure : Female poet HỠXuân Hðáng.
As of 1 April 2019, Quỳnh Lðu rural district had a population of 276,259. However, from 2003 to present, the whole rural district has continuously reduced the population because the situation of young people pulled together to the cities to seek employment opportunities, and the quality of agriculture of the locality is not high, while the industry has very little potential.
It covers an area of 609 km<sup>2</sup>, that is, it is equivalent to Singapore Island. Previously, its capital was located at block 3 of Cầu Giát township ("the bridge of Giát"), however, the district central agency has been transferred to hamlet 7 of Quỳnh Há»Âng commune since 2024.
Currently, Quỳnh Lðu has all 33 commune-level administrative units.