Place details
Place nameThành Pho Ho Chí Minh
Other namesHo Chi Minh City, Thanh-pho Ho Chi Minh, Sai-gon, Saigon
CountryViet Nam
Latitude10.75
Longitude106.667
SourceThesaurus of Geographic Names
Overview
Administratively autonomous city; Vietnamese first entered region 1600s; seized by French 1859; Vietnamese emperor Tu Duc ceded town to France 1862; base of American military operations during Vietnam War; captured by North Vietnamese forces in 1975.