Đức Cơ district

Đức Cơ rural district Huyện Đức Cơ
Rural District
Seal
Nickname(s):  "The Border Lover" (Người tình biên ải)
Location in Gia Lai province.
Country	Vietnam
Region	Central Highlands
Province	Gia Lai province
Existence	1957 to August 30, 2025
Central hall	No.116, Quang Trung road, Chư Ty township
Government
• Type	Rural district
• People Committee's Chairman	Vũ Định Mạnh
• People Council's Chairman	Phạm Văn Cường
• Front Committee's Chairman	Rơ Châm H’Phíp
• Party Committee's Secretary	Phạm Văn Cường
Area
• Total	717 km2 (277 sq mi)
Population  (2018)
• Total	62,031
• Density	87/km2 (220/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+7 (Indochina Time)
ZIP code	61500
Website	Ducco.Gialai.gov.vn Ducco.Gialai.dcs.vn

Đức Cơ is a former rural district of Gia Lai province in the Central Highlands region of Vietnam.

History

Its name Đức Cơ from Daàk-kơh in Jarai language, what means "the stream of the mops". It was changed by President Ngô Đình Diệm's policy in 1957.

XX century

During the Vietnam War, the battle of Đức Cơ was the most important event of the Republic of Vietnam Marine Division, who won a resounding : "Delayed in Bình Giã so we did not back down ; The hard victory made us deserve to be volunteers for death ; Our people were happy to welcome the victory of Đức Cơ" (Lừng danh Bình Giã chúng ta không hề lùi bước ; Chiến thắng phong sương xứng danh là cảm tử quân ; Đồng bào mừng vui đón chào chiến thắng Đức Cơ) – March of the Marine Division, "Maybe I will return from the victory of Pleime ; Or Đức Cơ, or Đồng Xoài, or Bình Giã ?" (Anh trở lại, có thể bằng chiến thắng Pleime ; Hay Ðức Cơ, Ðồng Xoài, Bình Giã ?) – by Linh Phương's poem in 1971 and Phạm Duy's song in 1972, Man Who Entered The War History (Người vào chiến sử) by Anh Việt Thu, The Man Stayed At Charlie (Người ở lại Charlie) by Trần Thiện Thanh. This place is also the main context of theme song Warrior, Who Are You (Hỡi người chiến sĩ, anh là ai) in 1971 epic movie Faceless Lover (Người tình không chân dung) by Hoàng Vĩnh Lộc and Kiều Chinh. In addition, it was also mentioned by Phan Nhật Nam's battlefield memoirs and a few other novels mentioned very vividly and majestic.

XXI century

To meet the criteria of the plan for arrangement and merger of administrative units, according to the Decision of the Gia Lai Provincial People's Committee, which was issued in February 2025, from 00:00 on September 1 of the same year, Đức Cơ Rural District was officially dissolved.

Geography

As of 2003 the district had a population of 49,745. The majority of the native Jarai people, followed by the Kinh people. In the early 2000s, even the number of Kinh people continuously decreased due to the wrong economic policies of the local government, causing young people to leave elsewhere.

The district covers an area of 717 km², that is, it is equivalent to Singapore Island. The district capital lies at Chư Ty.

Culture

Đức Cơ is located in the position of the strongest flowing water of the Se San basin, so it has been renovated into the most important hydroelectric lake of the Indochina junction. This project has quickly became a tourist landscape what was not to be missed.

This rural district was planned to be the center of the Development Triangle Project until Cambodia announced a retreat in 2024.

Further reading

Bibliography

• George Coedes. The Making of South East Asia, 2nd ed. University of California Press, 1983.
• Trần Ngọc Thêm. Cơ sở văn hóa Việt Nam (The Foundation of Vietnamese Culture), 504 pages. Publishing by Nhà xuất bản Đại học Tổng hợp TPHCM. Saigon, Vietnam, 1995.
• Trần Quốc Vượng, Tô Ngọc Thanh, Nguyễn Chí Bền, Lâm Mỹ Dung, Trần Thúy Anh. Cơ sở văn hóa Việt Nam (The Basis of Vietnamese Culture), 292 pages. Re-publishing by Nhà xuất bản Giáo Dục Việt Nam & Quảng Nam Printing Co-Ltd. Hanoi, Vietnam, 2006.
• Li Tana (2011). Jiaozhi (Giao Chỉ) in the Han period Tongking Gulf. In Cooke, Nola ; Li Tana ; Anderson, James A. (eds.). The Tongking Gulf Through History. University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 39–44. ISBN 9780812205022.
• Tập bản đồ hành chính Việt Nam (Vietnamese Administrative Maps), Nhà xuất bản Tài nguyên – Môi trường và Bản đồ Việt Nam, Hà Nội, 2013.
• Li Tana, Towards an environmental history of the Eastern Red River Delta, Vietnam, c.900–1400, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 2014.
• Samuel Baron, Christoforo Borri, Olga Dror, Keith W. Taylor (2018). Views of Seventeenth-Century Vietnam : Christoforo Borri on Cochinchina and Samuel Baron on Tonkin. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-1-501-72090-1.
• The Birth of Vietnam : Sino-Vietnamese Relations to the Tenth Century and the Origins of Vietnamese Nationhood. University of Michigan Press. 1976.
• Taylor, Keith Weiler (1983). The Birth of Vietnam. Berkeley, California: University of California Press. doi:10.2307/jj.8501140. ISBN 978-0-52007-417-0. JSTOR jj.8501140. LCCN 81011590. OCLC 1131176955. S2CID 265239427.
• Taylor, K. W.; Whitmore, John K., eds. (1995). Essays Into Vietnamese Pasts. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Southeast Asia Program. doi:10.7591/9781501718991. ISBN 978-0-87727-718-7. JSTOR 10.7591/j.ctv1nhmtn. OCLC 1091450831.
• Borri, Christoforo; Baron, Samuel (2006). Views of Seventeenth-Century Vietnam: Christoforo Borri on Cochinchina and Samuel Baron on Tonkin. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. doi:10.7591/9781501720901. ISBN 978-0-87727-771-2. JSTOR 10.7591/j.ctv3s8qt9. LCCN 2009280899. OCLC 1262600216. S2CID 160903627.
• Taylor, K. W. (2013). A History of the Vietnamese. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9781139021210. ISBN 978-1-107-24435-1. LCCN 2012035197. OCLC 843761714. S2CID 161759966.

External links

• Công an tỉnh Gia Lai triển khai tổ chức bộ máy sau khi giải thể công an cấp huyện