Ho Chi Minh City
Ho Chi Minh City, commonly known as Saigon or by the abbreviations HCMC or HCM, is the largest city in Vietnam and the former capital of the Republic of Vietnam.Photo: Clay Gilliland, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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Notable Places in the Area
Ben Thanh Tourist Market
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Bến Thành Market is located in the center of Hồ Chí Minh City, Vietnam in District 1.
Ho Chi Minh City Hall
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Ho Chi Minh City Hall, officially called the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Head Office, is the city hall of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Independence Palace
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10°46′37″N 106°41′43″E / 10.77694°N 106.69528°E The Independence Palace, also publicly known as the Reunification Convention Hall, is a landmark in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Localities in the Area
Chợ Lớn
Chợ Lớn, usually anglicized as "Cholon" in English sources, is a quarter of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.Ho Chi Minh City
- Type: City with 9,170,000 residents
- Description: municipality in Vietnam
- Categories: municipality of Vietnam, big city, million city, megacity, largest city, planned community and locality
- Location: Southern Vietnam, Vietnam, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
10.7764° or 10° 46' 35" northLongitude
106.7011° or 106° 42' 4" eastPopulation
9,170,000Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)Abbreviation
HCMCIATA airport code
SGNUnited Nations Location Code
VN SGNOpen Location Code
7P28QPG2+HFOpenStreetMap ID
node 369486734OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1566083Wikidata ID
Q1854Ho Chi Minh City Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Ho Chi Minh City
- Achinese: Kota Ho Chi Minh
- Afar: Xoshimin
- Afrikaans: Ho Chi Minh-stad
- Akan: Ho Chi Minh City
- Albanian: Ho-Chi-Minh-Qytet
- Albanian: Ho Çi Min
- Albanian: Qyteti Ho Chi Minh
- Albanian: Qyteti Ho Çi Min
- Amharic: ሆ ቺ ሚን ከተማ
- Arabic: Syudad han Ho Chi Minh
- Arabic: مدينة هو تشي منه
- Arabic: مدينة هو تشي مينه
- Aragonese: Ciudat Ho Chi Minh
- Armenian: Հոշիմին
- Arpitan: Ho Chi Minh Vela
- Asturian: Ciudad Ho Chi Minh
- Asturian: Ciudá Ho Chi Minh
- Aymara: Ho Chi Min marka
- Azerbaijani: Hoşimin
- Bambara: Ho Chi Minh-Ville
- Banjar: Ho Chi Minh City
- Bashkir: Хошимин
- Basque: Ho Chi Minh Hiria
- Bavarian: Ho-Chi-Minh-Stadt
- Bavarian: Ho-Chi-Minh-Stod
- Belarusian: Сайгон
- Belarusian: Хашымін
- Bengali: সাইগন
- Bengali: হো চি মিন শহর
- Bengali: হো চি মিন সিটি
- Bislama: Ho Chi Minh City
- Bosnian: Ho Ši Min Grad
- Bosnian: Hồ Chí Minh
- Breton: Kêr Ho-Chi-Minh
- Buginese: Ho Chi Minh City
- Buginese: ᨖᨚ ᨌᨖᨗ ᨆᨗᨊᨖ ᨌᨗᨈᨐ
- Bulgarian: Хошимин
- Burmese: ဟိုချီမင်းစီးတီး
- Burmese: ဟိုချီမင်းမြို့
- Catalan: Ciutat Ho Chi Minh
- Catalan: Ho Chi Minh
- Cebuano: Dakbayang Hồ Chí Minh
- Cebuano: Dakbayan sa Ho Chi Minh
- Central Bikol: Ho Chi Minh City
- Chamorro: Ho Chi Minh
- Chavacano: Ciudad Hồ Chí Minh
- Chechen: Хошимин
- Cheyenne: Ho Chi Minh City
- Chinese: Hồ Chí Minh Chhī
- Chinese: 嘉定
- Chinese: 柴棍
- Chinese: 胡志明城庯
- Chinese: 胡志明市
- Chinese: 西貢
- Chinese: 西贡
- Chuvash: Хошимин
- Cornish: Cita Ho Chi Minh
- Crimean Tatar: Ho Şi Min
- Croatian (Historic): Saigon
- Croatian: Grad Ho Chi Minh
- Croatian: Ho Chi Minh
- Croatian: Ho Ši Min
- Czech: Ho Či Minovo Město
- Danish: Ho Chi Minh-byen
- Dimli (individual language): Ho Chi Minh
- Dutch: Ho Chi Minhstad
- Dutch: Saigon
- Eastern Mari: Хошимин
- Egyptian Arabic: هو تشى مينه
- English (Historic): Saigon
- English: Gia Định
- English: HCMC
- English: Ho Chi Minh
- English: Hôchiminh Ville
- English: Prey Nokor
- English: Sai Gon
- English: Saigon
- English: Saïgon
- English: Sài Gòn
- English: Thành-Phô Hồ Chí Minh
- English: Thành Phố Hồ Chí Minh
- Esperanto: Ho-Ĉi-Min-urbo
- Estonian: Hồ Chí Minh
- Ewe: Ho Chi Minh City
- Extremaduran: Ciá Ho Chi Minh
- Faroese: Ho Chi Minh City
- Fiji Hindi: Ho Chi Minh City
- Fijian: Ho Chi Minh
- Fijian: Ho Chi Minh siti
- Finnish: Hồ Chí Minhin kaupunki
- French (Historic): Saïgon
- French: Chợ Lớn
- French: Gia Định
- French: HCMV
- French: Hô-Chi-Minh-Ville
- French: Hô Chi Minh-Ville
- French: Hô Chi Minh-ville
- French: Hô Chi Minh Ville
- French: Prey Nokor
- French: Saigon
- French: Saïgon
- French: Sài Thành
- French: Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh
- Friulian: Citât di Ho Chi Minh
- Fulah: Ho Chi Minh City
- Gagauz: Ho Chi Minh City
- Galician: Cidade Ho Chi Minh
- Gan Chinese: 胡志明市
- Ganda: Ho Chi Minh City
- Georgian: ხოშიმინი
- Georgian: ჰოშიმინი
- German (Historic): Saigon
- German: Ho-Chi-Minh-Stadt
- German: Saigon
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: Ho Chi Minh City
- Gothic: 𐌷𐍉 𐍄𐍃𐌷𐌹 𐌼𐌹𐌽𐌷 𐌱𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌲
- Greek: Σαϊγκόν
- Greek: Χο Τσι Μιν
- Greek: Χο Τσι Μινχ
- Guarani: Táva Ho Chi Minh
- Gujarati: હો ચી મિન શહેર
- Gujarati: હો ચી મિન સિટી
- Haitian: Hô-Chi-Minh-Vil
- Hakka Chinese: Hồ Chí Minh Sṳ
- Hausa: Birnin Ho Chi Minh
- Hausa: Hồ Chí Minh Sṳ
- Hawaiian: Hosimin
- Hebrew: הו צ'י מין סיטי
- Hiligaynon: Dakbanwa Hồ Chí Minh
- Hindi: हो ची मिन्ह शहर
- Hungarian: Ho Si Minh-város
- Hungarian: Prey Nokor
- Hungarian: Saigon
- Hungarian: Thành Phố Hồ Chí Minh
- Icelandic: Ho Chi Minh-borg
- Ido: Ho Chi Minh urbo
- Igbo: Ho Chi Minh City
- Iloko: Siudad Hồ Chí Minh
- Indonesian: Kota Hồ Chí Minh
- Interlingua: Citate de Ho Chi Minh
- Interlingue: Ho Chi Minh Cité
- Inupiaq: Ho Chi Minh City
- Irish: Cathair Ho Chi Minh
- Italian: Città di Ho Chi Minh
- Italian: Ho Chi Minh
- Italian: Saigon
- Japanese: サイゴン
- Japanese: プレイノコール
- Japanese: ホーチミン
- Japanese: ホーチミンシティ
- Japanese: ホーチミン・シティ
- Japanese: ホーチミン市
- Japanese: ホー・チ・ミン市
- Japanese: 城舗胡志明
- Japanese: 東洋のパリ
- Japanese: 柴棍
- Japanese: 胡志明市
- Javanese: Kutha Ho Chi Minh
- Kabyle: Ho Chi Minh City
- Kalaallisut: Ho Chi Minh Illoqarfik
- Kannada: ಹೊ ಚಿ ಮಿನ್ ನಗರ
- Kara-Kalpak: Ho Chi Minh City
- Karachay-Balkar: Хошимин
- Kashubian: Ho Chi Minh City
- Kazakh: Сайгон
- Kazakh: Хошимин
- Khmer: ក្រុងព្រៃនគរ
- Kikuyu: Ho Chi Minh City
- Kinaray-A: Hangbanwa Hồ Chí Minh
- Kinyarwanda: Ho Chi Minh
- Kirghiz: Хошимин
- Kongo: Ho Chi Minh City
- Korean: 호찌민
- Korean: 호찌민 시
- Korean: 호찌민시
- Korean: 호치민
- Kurdish: Ho Chi Minh City
- Kölsch: Ho Chi Minh-Stadt
- Ladino: Sivdad Ho Chi Minh
- Lao: Siudad ti Ho Chi Minh
- Lao: ເມືອງໂຮ່ຈິມິນ
- Latgalian: Ho Chi Minh Mīsts
- Latgalian: Hošimins
- Latin: Hochiminhopolis
- Latvian: Hošimina
- Latvian: Saigona
- Lezghian: Хошимин
- Ligurian: Ho Chi Minh Cittæ
- Limburgan: Ho Chi Minhstad
- Lingala: Ho Chi Minh Engumba
- Literary Chinese: 胡志明城庯
- Lithuanian: Hošiminas
- Lojban: Ho Chi Minh tcadu
- Lombard: Cità de Ho Chi Minh
- Low German: Ho-Chi-Minh-Stadt
- Low German: Ho Chi Minh-stad
- Lower Sorbian: Ho Chi Minh město
- Luxembourgish: Ho-Chi-Minh-Stad
- Luxembourgish: Ho Chi Minh City
- Macedo-Romanian: Ho Chi Minh City
- Macedonian: Хо Ши Мин
- Malagasy: Hô-Chi-Minh-Ville
- Malay: Bandar Raya Ho Chi Minh
- Malayalam: സയ്ഗോൺ
- Malayalam: ഹോ ചി മിൻ നഗരം
- Maltese: Ho Chi Minh
- Manx: Caayr Ho Chi Minh
- Maori: Ho Chi Minh City
- Marathi: हो चि मिन्ह शहर
- Marathi: हो चि मिन्ह सिटी
- Mazanderani: هوشی مینه سیتی
- Min Dong Chinese: Hù-cé-mìng-chê
- Min Dong Chinese: Hù Cé-mìng Chê
- Min Nan Chinese: Hồ Chí Minh Chhī
- Min Nan Chinese: Sài Gòn
- Min Nan Chinese: Ô͘ Chì-bêng Chhī
- Minangkabau: Koto Ho Chi Minh
- Mingrelian: ხოშიმინი
- Mirandese: Ho Chi Minh Cidade
- Moksha: Хошимин
- Mongolian: Хо Ши Мин хот
- Mongolian: Хошимин
- Narom: Ho Chi Minh Ville
- Nauru: Ho Chi Minh City
- Navajo: Ndikʼąłchíʼítah
- Neapolitan: Ho Chi Minh
- Northern Frisian: Ho Chi Minh-stää
- Northern Sami: Hồ Chí Minh gávpot
- Norwegian: Ho Chi Minh-byen
- Norwegian Bokmål: Ho Chi Minh-byen
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Ho Chi Minh-byen
- Novial: Ho Chi Minh City
- Occitan (post 1500): Ciutat Ho Chi Minh
- Occitan (post 1500): Ciutat de Ho Chi Minh
- Occitan (post 1500): Ho Chi Minh
- Occitan (post 1500): Hô Chi Minh Vila
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Ho Chi Minh Burg
- Oriya: ସାଇଗନ
- Ossetian: Хошимин
- Pampanga: Lakanbaleng Hồ Chí Minh
- Panjabi: ਹੋ ਚੀ ਮਿਨ ਸ਼ਹਿਰ
- Panjabi: ਹੋ ਚੀ ਮਿਨ ਸ਼ਹਿਰ
- Papiamento: Saigon
- Papiamento: Siudat Ho Chi Minh
- Pedi: Ho Chi Minh City
- Pennsylvania German: Ho Chi Minh-Schtadt
- Persian: هوشیمین
- Pfaelzisch: Ho-Chi-Minh-Stadt
- Pfaelzisch: Ho-Chi Minh-Schdadt
- Picard: Ho Chi Minh Vile
- Piemontese: Ho Chi Minh City
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Ho Chi Minh City
- Polish: Ho Chi Minh
- Polish: Sajgon
- Portuguese: Cidade Ho Chi Minh
- Portuguese: Cidade de Ho Chi Minh
- Portuguese: HCMC
- Portuguese: Ho Chi Minh
- Portuguese: Hôchiminh Ville
- Portuguese: Sai Gon
- Portuguese: Saigon
- Portuguese: Saigão
- Portuguese: Saïgon
- Portuguese: Sài Gòn
- Portuguese: Thành-Phô Hồ Chí Minh
- Quechua: Ho Chi Minh llaqta
- Romanian: Ho Chi Minh
- Romanian: Ho Și Min
- Romansh: Citad Ho Chi Minh
- Russia Buriat: Хошимин
- Russian: Сайгон
- Russian: Хошимин
- Rusyn: Хошимин
- Samoan: Ho Chi Minh City
- Samogitian: Hošėmins
- Sango: Ho Chi Minh City
- Santali: ᱦᱳ ᱪᱤ ᱢᱤᱱ ᱥᱤᱴᱤ
- Sardinian: Ho Chi Minh
- Sardinian: Tzitade de Ho Chi Minh
- Saterfriesisch: Ho-Chi-Minh-Stääd
- Scots: Ho Chi Minh Ceety
- Scottish Gaelic: Ho Chi Minh
- Serbian: Ho-Chi-Minh
- Serbian: Град Хо Ши Мин
- Serbian: Сајгон
- Serbian: Хо-Ши-Мин
- Serbian: Хо Ши Мин
- Serbian: Хо Ши Мин Град
- Serbo-Croatian: Ho Chi Minh-Stadt
- Serbo-Croatian: Ho Chi Minh
- Serbo-Croatian: Hồ Chí Minh
- Shona: Guta reHo Chi Minh
- Sicilian: Ho Chi Minh City
- Silesian: Ho Chi Minh
- Sinhala: හෝ චි මින් නගරය
- Slovak: Hočiminovo Mesto
- Slovenian: Hošiminh
- Somali: Ho Chi Minh City
- South Azerbaijani: هوشیمین
- Southern Sotho: Ho Chi Minh City
- Spanish: Ciudad Ho Chi Minh
- Spanish: Ho Chi Minh
- Spanish: Saigón
- Sranan Tongo: Ho Chi Minh City
- Sundanese: Kota Ho Chi Minh
- Swahili: Mji wa Ho Chi Minh
- Swati: Ho Chi Minh City
- Swedish: Ho Chi Minh-staden
- Swedish: Ho Chi Minh
- Swedish: Saigon
- Swedish: Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh
- Swiss German: Ho-Chi-Minh-Stadt
- Tagalog: Lungsod Ho Chi Minh
- Tagalog: Lungsod Hồ Chí Minh
- Tajik: Хошимин
- Tajik: Шаҳри Ҳошимин
- Tajik: Ҳошимин
- Tamil: ஹோ சி மின் நகரம்
- Tamil: ஹோ சி மின் ஸிடி
- Tatar: Хошимин
- Tatar: Һошимин
- Telugu: హోచిమిన్ నగరం
- Telugu: హోచిమిన్ సిటీ
- Tetum: Ho Chi Minh City
- Thai: นครโฮจิมินห์
- Tibetan: ཧོ་ཀྲི་མིན་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།
- Tok Pisin: Ho Chi Minh City
- Tosk Albanian: Ho-Chi-Minh-Stadt
- Tsonga: Ho Chi Minh City
- Tswana: Ho Chi Minh City
- Tumbuka: Ho Chi Minh City
- Turkish: Ho Chi Minh Kenti
- Turkmen: Ho Şi Miň Şäheri
- Twi: Ho Chi Minh City
- Udmurt: Хошимин
- Uighur: سايگون
- Ukrainian: Гошимін
- Upper Sorbian: Ho Chi Minh město
- Urdu: ہو چی من
- Urdu: ہو چی من شہر
- Uzbek: Xoshimin
- Venetian: Ho Chi Minh City
- Veps: Hošimin
- Vietnamese (Historic): Sài Gòn
- Vietnamese: Gia Định
- Vietnamese: HCM
- Vietnamese: Hồ Chí Minh
- Vietnamese: Saigon
- Vietnamese: Sài Gòn
- Vietnamese: Sài Thành
- Vietnamese: TPHCM
- Vietnamese: Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh
- Vlaams: Ho Chi Minhstad
- Vlax Romani: Ho Chi Minh City
- Volapük: Ho Chi Minh
- Võro: Ho Chi Minh
- Walloon: Hô Chí Minh Veye
- Waray (Philippines): Siyudad Hồ Chí Minh
- Welsh: Dinas Ho Chi Minh
- Welsh: Saigon
- Western Frisian: Ho Chi Minh stêd
- Western Frisian: Ho Chi Minhstêd
- Western Panjabi: ہوچی منہ
- Western Panjabi: ہوچی منہ شہر
- Wolof: Ho Chi Minh City
- Wu Chinese: 胡志明市
- Yakut: Хошимин
- Yiddish: הא טשי מין שטאט
- Yue Chinese: 嘉定
- Yue Chinese: 胡志明
- Yue Chinese: 胡志明市
- Yue Chinese: 西貢
- Zeeuws: Ho Chi Minh stad
- Zhuang: Ho Chi Minh Si
- Zulu: IHochiminh
- Historic: Gia Định
- Historic: Saigon
- Ho-Chi-Minh-urbo
- Ho Chi Minh-gum Iniqpaŋa
- Hokimina Tāone
- SG
- Tp. HCM
- Çitæ de Ho Chi Minh
- Āltepētl Ho Chi Minh
- Хошимін
- ទីក្រុងព្រៃនគរ
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