Sơn Tịnh is a 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 ....

 of Quang Ngai province

Quang Ngai Province

Quảng Ngãi is a province in the South Central Coast region of Vietnam, on the coast of South China Sea. It is located 883 km south of Hanoi and 838 km north of Ho Chi Minh City.-History:...

, in the South Central Coast

Nam Trung Bo

Nam Trung Bộ is one of the regions of Vietnam. It consists of the independent municipality of Đà Nẵng and seven other provinces. The two southern provinces Ninh Thuận and Bình Thuận are sometimes seen as part of the Southeast region.The region has traditionally been one of the main gateways to...

 region of Vietnam

Vietnam

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, situated to the northeast of the town of Quang Ngai. The hamlet of Mỹ Lai of the Sơn Mỹ village, Tinh Khe commune was the site of the massacre of non-combatants

My Lai Massacre

The My Lai Massacre was the Vietnam War mass murder of 347–504 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam on March 16, 1968, by United States Army soldiers of "Charlie" Company of 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade of the Americal Division. Most of the victims were women, children , and...

 committed by United States Army

United States Army

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 troops in 1968, today documented in Son My Memorial Park in Son My's sub-hamlet of Tu Cung.

My Khe Beach is an attractive 8 km long beach situated in the Co Luy Village of Tinh Khe commune.

Tinh Phong Industrial Park (khu công nghiệp Tịnh Phong) is located in Son Tinh District. Dai Cat Tuong

Dai Cat Tuong

Dai Cat Tuong is a textile manufacturer in Quang Ngai Province, Vietnam. After several years of making losses, it was acquired by Vinatex as part of the latter's strategy of decentralization of its production for 39.876bn VND....

 textile factory (owned by Vinatex

Vinatex

The Vietnam National Textile and Garment Group is a large Vietnamese textile company, and one of Vietnam's largest companies overall...

) is located here.

Administration

The district has 21 communes (xã):

• Thị trấn Sơn Tịnh
• Tịnh Long
• Tịnh An
• Tịnh Châu
• Tịnh Thiện
• Tịnh Hòa
• Tịnh Kỳ
• Tịnh Sơn
• Tịnh Hà
• Tịnh Thọ
• Tịnh Ấn Đông
• Tịnh Ấn Tây
• Tịnh Khê
• Tịnh Bình
• Tịnh Đông
• Tịnh Trà
• Tịnh Giang
• Tịnh Minh
• Tịnh Hiệp
• Tịnh Bắc

See also

• My Lai Massacre
  My Lai Massacre
  The My Lai Massacre was the Vietnam War mass murder of 347–504 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam on March 16, 1968, by United States Army soldiers of "Charlie" Company of 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade of the Americal Division. Most of the victims were women, children , and...