TUY HOA

city, south-central Vietnam. An agricultural centre and fishing port on the South China Sea coast near the mouth of the Da Rang River, it is the focus of a fertile, densely populated agricultural lowland devoted to sugarcane, cotton, and rice. Many of the Vietnamese farmers of the Tuy Hoa region were recruited in the 1920s by the French to relocate on newly founded rubber and tea plantations in the central highlands. In 1936 the city was linked to Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) and Hanoi by the completion of the coastal railway. It is also served by the national coastal highway and has a hospital and a commercial airport. A ruined 4th-century-AD Champa tower is located there. Pop. (1989) 54,081.