Khoái Châu 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 Hung Yen province

Hung Yen Province

Hưng Yên is a province in the Red River Delta of northern Vietnam.-Administrative divisions:The province comprises one city and nine districts:#Ân Thi#Khoái Châu#Kim Động#Mỹ Hào#Phù Cừ#Tiên Lữ#Văn Giang#Văn Lâm#Yên Mỹ...

 in the Red River Delta

Red River Delta

The Red River Delta is the flat plain formed by the Red River and its distributaries joining in the Thai Binh River in northern Vietnam. The delta measuring some 15,000 square km is well protected by a network of dikes. It is an agriculturally rich area and densely populated...

 region of Vietnam

Vietnam

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. In Sino-Vietnamese script, used until 1945, the name is given as 快州.

Feudal time

• During Hung Kings period, Khoai Chau belonged to Giao Chi borough.
• During the Ngô Dynasty
  Ngô Dynasty
  The Ngô dynasty was a dynasty in Vietnam.Around the year 930 AD, as Ngô Quyền rose to power, northern Vietnam was militarily occupied by Southern Han and was treated as an autonomous province and vassal state of China and was referred to as Giao Chỉ...
  
  , Khoai Chau was renamed Dang Chau.
• During the Đinh Dynasty, Khoai Chau belonged to Dang Dao.
• During the Ly
  Lý Dynasty
  The Lý Dynasty , sometimes known as the Later Lý Dynasty , was a Vietnamese dynasty that began in 1009 when Lý Thái Tổ overthrew the Prior Lê Dynasty and ended in 1225 when the queen Lý Chiêu Hoàng was forced to abdicate the throne in favor of her husband, Trần Cảnh. They ruled Vietnam for a...
  
   and Tran Dynasties, Khoai Chau was renamed Khoai Lo.

Geography

• Khoai Chau District is on the left bank of the Red River. It borders Van Giang and Yen My Districts to the north, Ân Thi District to the east, Kim Động District to the south, Hanoi
  Hanoi
  Hanoi , is the capital of Vietnam and the country's second largest city. Its population in 2009 was estimated at 2.6 million for urban districts, 6.5 million for the metropolitan jurisdiction. From 1010 until 1802, it was the most important political centre of Vietnam...
  
  's Thuong Tin
  Thuong Tin
  Thường Tín is a district of Hanoi in the Red River Delta region of Vietnam....
  
   and Phu Xuyen
  Phu Xuyen
  Phú Xuyên is a district of Ha Tay province in the Red River Delta region of Vietnam....
  
   districts to the west.

Administration

Khoai Chau district is divided into 26 xã

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 (communes). The capital is Khoai Chau town.

As of 2003 the district had a population of 187,420. The district covers an area of 131 km². The district capital lies at Khoai Chau

Khoai Chau

Khoái Châu is a rural district of Hung Yen province in the Red River Delta region of Vietnam. In Sino-Vietnamese script, used until 1945, the name is given as 快州.-Feudal time:*During Hung Kings period, Khoai Chau belonged to Giao Chi borough....

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