Ho Chi Minh City

Ho Chi Minh City Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh Saigon/Sài Gòn
Municipality
Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh
Clockwise from top: Ho Chi Minh City skyline at night, Bến Thành Market, Temple of Hùng Kings (Ho Chi Minh City), Independence Palace, Landmark 81, Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica
Nicknames:  Paris of the Orient[1] (historical)
Motto:  Paulatim crescam[2] meaning "Gradually Grow"
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Coordinates: 10°46′32″N 106°42′07″E / 10.77556°N 106.70194°E / 10.77556; 106.70194
Country	Vietnam
Region	Southeast
Founded	1698
Founded by	Nguyễn Hữu Cảnh
Capital	District 1
Districts	1 sub-city, 16 urban districts & 5 rural districts
Government
• Type	Municipality
• Body	Ho Chi Minh City People's Council [vi]
• Secretary of CPV	Nguyễn Văn Nên
• Chairman of People's Council	Nguyễn Thị Lệ
• Chairman of People's Committee	Phan Văn Mãi
Area [3]
• Municipality	2,061.2 km2 (795.83 sq mi)
• Metro	30,595 km2 (11,813 sq mi)
Elevation	19 m (63 ft)
Population  (1 April 2019)[4][5]
• Municipality	8,993,082 (1st)
• Density	4,292/km2 (11,120/sq mi)
• Metro	21,281,639
• Metro density	697.2/km2 (1,806/sq mi)
Demonym	Saigonese
Ethnic groups [6]
• Vietnamese[7]	94.77%
• Hoa	4.26%
• Khmer	0.56%
• Chams	0.12%
• Tày	0.05%
• Mường	0.04%
• Nùng	0.03%
• Others	0.17%
Time zone	UTC+07:00 (ICT)
Postal code	70000–74000
Area codes	28
ISO 3166 code	VN-SG
License plate	41, 50 – 59
GRP (Nominal)	2019
– Total	US$61.7 billion[4]
– Per capita	US$6,862
GRP (PPP)	2019
– Total	US$190.3 billion[8]
– Per capita	US$21,163
Climate	Aw
International airports	Tan Son Nhat International Airport Long Thanh International Airport (under construction)
Website	eng.hochiminhcity.gov.vn

Ho Chi Minh City (Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh) is a city in southern Vietnam. It is governed as a municipality and includes a large rural area. It is the biggest city in Vietnam. About 9 million people live in the city.

Before its fall on 30 April 1975, the city used to be called "Saigon", and this is still the most common name in everyday conversation. The name Saigon come from the Saigon River, which flows through the city.

1. ↑ "Lodi News-Sentinel – Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
2. ↑ Cherry, Haydon (2019). Down and Out in Saigon: Stories of the Poor in a Colonial City. Yale University Press. p. 29. ISBN 978-0-300-21825-1.
3. ↑ "Area, population and population density by province". GENERAL STATISTICS OFFICE of VIETNAM. Archived from the original on 6 November 2018. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Cite error: The named reference 2019census was used but no text was provided for refs named (see the help page).
5. ↑ "Phần III – biểu tổng hợp" [Part III – Tabulated tables] (PDF). Kết quả Tổng điều tra dân số và nhà ở thời điểm 0 giờ ngày 01 tháng 4 năm 2019 [Results of the Census of Population and Housing at 0 o'clock April 1, 2019] (pdf) (in Vietnamese). Statistical publishing house, Central Population and Housing Census Steering Committee, General Statistics Office of Vietnam (Vietnamese: Nhà xuất bản thống kê, Ban chỉ đạo Tổng điều tra dân số và nhà ở Trung ương, Tổng cục Thống kê). December 2019. ISBN 978-604-75-1448-9. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 May 2020. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
6. ↑ General Statistics Office of Vietnam (2019). "Completed Results of the 2019 Viet Nam Population and Housing Census" (PDF). Statistical Publishing House (Vietnam). ISBN 978-604-75-1532-5. Archived from the original on 10 January 2021. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
7. ↑ Also called Kinh people
8. ↑ "Tình hình kinh tế xã hội tháng 12 và năm 2018". Statistical Office in Ho Chi Minh City (in Vietnamese). Archived from the original on 4 January 2019. Retrieved 4 January 2019.