Hương Trà 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 Thua Thien-Huế province

Thua Thien-Hue Province

Thừa Thiên-Huế is a province in the North Central Coast of Vietnam, approximately in the center of the country. It borders Quang Tri Provice to the north and Da Nang City to the south, Laos to the west and the South China Sea to the east. The province has 128 km of coastline, 22,000 ha of...

 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

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. As of 2003 the district had a population of 114,985. The district covers an area of 521 km². The district capital lies at Tu Ha.

The district is located on the northern outskirts of Huế

Hue

Hue is one of the main properties of a color, defined technically , as "the degree to which a stimulus can be describedas similar to or different from stimuli that are described as red, green, blue, and yellow,"...

, the major town in the district and the second largest town in central Vietnam after Da Nang

Da Nang

Đà Nẵng , occasionally Danang, is a major port city in the South Central Coast of Vietnam, on the coast of the South China Sea at the mouth of the Han River. It is the commercial and educational center of Central Vietnam; its well-sheltered, easily accessible port and its location on the path of...

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The district consists of the communes of Hải Dương, Hương Phong, Hương Vinh, Hương Toàn, Hương Chữ, Hương Xuân, Hương Văn, Hương Vân, Hương An, Hương Thọ, Hương Hồ, Hương Bình, Hồng Tiến, Bình Thành, Bình Điền and district capital town Tứ Hạ. Tứ Hạ is located on National Road 1A, the nation's main north-south artery, 16 km north of Huế.

The district lies between the Perfume River

Perfume River

The Perfume River is a river that crosses the city of Huế, in the central Vietnamese province of Thừa Thiên Huế.-Etymology:In the autumn, flowers from orchards upriver from Huế fall into the water, giving the river a perfume-like aroma....

, which runs through the city centre, and the Bồ River to the north. The area has both mountainous terrain and plains.