Mỹ Hào is a district-level town of Hưng Yên province in the Red River Delta region of Vietnam.

According to Đại Nam nhất thống địa dư chí, around the 9th century, on the left bank of the Red River, there was an administrative unit called Đường-Hào huyện[1] (唐豪縣, "Đường Hào rural district"), which was under Annam Prefecture of the Southern Tang Dynasty.

The reason for that decree was because the rural district's name has accidentally coincided with Emperor's alias "Chánh-Mông đường"[3] (正蒙堂, "Chánh Mông hall") in the pronunciation of Annamese people.

A low-ranking official named Nguyễn Thiện Thuật relied on this factor to urge his relatives as well as the Sơn Nam people to build a basis to oppose the protect government.

On February 25, 1890, to deal with the uprising movement in the East of Hanoi, Governor-General Jean-Luc de Saint Peauxpa has signed a decision to merge all the Red Riverside rural districts of three provinces Bắc Ninh, Hưng Yên, Hải Dương to form a new administrative unit : Địch-Lâm đạo (荻林道, "Bãi Sậy garrison").

Accordingly, this domain was organized according to the regulation like a special-military zone, which the head must be a French colonel (quan năm vành vàng, "fifth-level official with golden lines").

Communists have continued to take advantage of the low humid terrain of Mỹ Hào district to operate secretly.

On March 24, 1979, the Council of Ministers continued to issue Decision 70/CP to adjust the boundaries of rural districts of Hải Hưng province.

However, due to landslides, which was caused by illegal sand mining activities in the Red Riverside, this number has tended to decline slowly since the beginning of 2010s.

Mỹ Hào town is basically a intensive rice cultivation area due to sunken terrain conditions.