Phú Phong is a town in south central

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...

 Vietnam

Vietnam

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. It is the capital of Tây Sơn District in Bình Định Province.

Geography and Transport

Phú Phong is located in the very west of the lowland plain of southern Binh Dinh along Côn River

Côn River

Côn River is a river of Vietnam. With a length of 171km, it is the longest river in Binh Dinh Province. Much of it can be used as an inland waterway for transportation....

 and the smaller Cút River

Cut River

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, one of the its tributaries. Côn River is an inland waterway that can be used for transport and provides indirect access to the sea as well as further up to Vĩnh Thạnh District

Vinh Thanh District

Vĩnh Thạnh is a rural district of Binh Dinh province in the South Central Coast region of Vietnam. The district capital is Vĩnh Thạnh town....

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Phú Phong is also located at National Road 19, which connects it to National Road 1A (26 km distance), the ports of Quy Nhon (42 km) in the east and the Central Highlands

Tây Nguyên

Tây Nguyên, translated as Western Highlands and sometimes also called Central Highlands, is one of the regions of Vietnam. It contains the provinces of Đắk Lắk, Đắk Nông, Gia Lai, Kon Tum, Lâm Đồng....

 in the west, including An Khe

An Khe

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 town (34 km), Pleiku

Pleiku

Pleiku is a town in central Vietnam, located in that nation's central highland region. It is the capital of the Gia Lai Province; it is inhabited primarily by the Bahnar and Jarai ethnic groups, sometimes known as the Montagnards or Degar....

 city (129 km), and the border to Cambodia

Cambodia

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History and Heritage Sites

Phú Phong was granted town status in March 1979 (having been a village before that). It was expanded in 2006 and aims to become a level 4 urban settlement.

There is a temple commemorating the Tây Sơn Dynasty

Tây Son Dynasty

The name of Tây Sơn is used in many ways to refer to the period of peasant rebellions and decentralized dynasties established between the eras of the Later Lê and Nguyễn dynasties in the history of Vietnam between 1770 and 1802...

, which originated in the Tây Sơn District, as well as an ancestral temple dedicated to Bui Thi Xuan

Bui Thi Xuan

Bùi Thị Xuân was a Vietnamese woman general during the Tây Sơn Rebellion.General Xuân was born in Bình Khê District , Bình Định Province. She learned martial arts as a child, and was reputedly a strong woman. Legend has it that she once rescued Trần Quang Diệu, who later became her husband, from...

, one of its major generals, and a Tây Sơn Museum.

Several Cham

Champa

The kingdom of Champa was an Indianized kingdom that controlled what is now southern and central Vietnam from approximately the 7th century through to 1832.The Cham people are remnants...

temple towers are located in Binh Nghi Commune to the east of the town.