Thanh Trì 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 ....

 (huyện) of 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...

, the capital city of Vietnam

Vietnam

Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...

. Thanh Tri is located on the southeastern side of Hanoi, on the western bank of the Red River. It is adjacent to Thanh Xuan

Thanh Xuan

Thanh Xuan is an urban district of Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam....

 District in the northwest, Hoang Mai

Hoang Mai, Hanoi

Hoang Mai is an urban district of Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam....

 District in the north, Ha Dong District in the west, Gia Lam

Gia Lam

Gia Lâm is a district of Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam. Gia Lam Airport is located in the district. At one time Vietnam Airlines's headquarters were on the airport property....

 District in the east (across the Red River), and Thanh Oai

Thanh Oai

Thanh Oai is a rural district of Hanoi in the Red River Delta region of Vietnam.The village of Ước Lễ is famous for its chả lụa....

 and Thuong Tin

Thuong Tin

Thường Tín is a district of Hanoi in the Red River Delta region of Vietnam....

 Districts in the south.

Thanh Tri's terrain is mostly low-lying, gradually descending towards the southeast in the direction of flow of the Red River. The To Lich River flows into the Red River within the district, and the many ponds, lakes and swamps nearby no doubt influenced the district's name; "Thanh Tri" means "blue", and the district's historical name, Thanh Dam, means "Blue Lagoon".

Thanh Tri District is composed of one town (Van Dien) and 15 communes: Thanh Liet, Dong My, Yen My, Duyen Ha, Tam Hiep, Tu Hiep, Ngu Hiep, Ngoc Hoi, Vinh Quynh, Ta Thanh Oai Dai Ang, Van Phuc, Lien Ninh, Huu Hoa, and Tan Trieu.

On April 8, 2008, an Antonov An-26

Antonov An-26

The Antonov An-26 is a twin-engined turboprop military transport aircraft, designed and produced in the USSR from 12 March 1968.-Development:...

 aircraft on a training mission crashed into a field

Hanoi military plane crash

A twin-engine light transport aircraft crashed into a field on the outskirts of the capital Hanoi on Tuesday morning 8 April 2008 during a training mission, killing five Vietnamese military pilots.-Details:...

 in Thanh Tri, killing five Vietnamese military pilots. It had taken off from Gia Lam Airport

Gia Lam Airport

Gia Lam Airport is one of two major airports in Hanoi, Vietnam, located in Gia Lâm District, on the eastern bank of the Red River. It is primarily a military field, used by the Vietnam People's Air Force , with MiG-21 fighters and Kamov Ka-28 helicopters stored in revetments. The airfield was...

, and crashed on its way back. The cause of the accident was unknown. A Vietnamese military official who declined to be named said the plane belonged to Vietnam's 918 Air Transport Regiment.

Thanh Tri is famous for its variety of the rolled rice noodle dish bánh cuốn, called bánh cuốn Thanh Trì.