Quảng Trị Ward

• Name — Quảng Trị • Settlement Type — Ward • Official Name — Quảng Trị Ward • Subdivision Type — Country • Subdivision Name — Vietnam • Subdivision Type1 — Region • Subdivision Name1 — North Central Coast • Subdivision Type2 — Province • Subdivision Name2 — Quảng Trị • Seat Type — Capital • Established Title — Established • Established Date — 16 September 1989 • Unit Pref — Metric • Area Total Km2 — 74 • Area Urban Km2 — 8.27 • Population As Of — 2019 • Population Total — 23,356 • Population Density Km2 — 315 • Population Urban — 19,390 • Population Density Urban Km2 — auto • Timezone — ICT • Utc Offset — +7

The Sino-Vietnamese name Quảng Trị (廣治) was given by Vietnamese Confucian administrators. A major feature of the town is the Quảng Trị Citadel, built in 1824, as a military bastion during the 4th year of the reign of Minh Mạng. It is an example of Vauban architecture and it later became the administrative head office of the Nguyễn dynasty in Quảng Trị Province (1809–1945). Quảng Trị was an area of early Catholic presence and by 1913, the nearest railway station to the starting point of the La Vang pilgrimage. During the Vietnam War, when the province was the South's border with North Vietnam, it suffered a major attack in the January 1968 Tet Offensive and it was the only South Vietnamese provincial capital to be captured by the North Vietnamese forces in the 1972 Easter Offensive before being recaptured in September 1972. During the Vietnam War the city became what some regard as the most bombed city in the world.

• Hieu Van Le, Governor of the Australian state of South Australia, was born here in 1954. • Vân Khánh (born 1978), folk singer