Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- The largest city of Vietnam, in the southern part of the country near the South China Sea. An ancient Khmer settlement, it was known as Saigon throughout most of its history, serving as the administrative center of French Indochina and, after 1954, as the capital of South Vietnam. The city was renamed after the end of the Vietnam War in 1975.
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- proper noun The largest city of
Vietnam , formerly known asSaigon .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a city in South Vietnam; formerly (as Saigon) it was the capital of French Indochina
Etymologies
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If the name Ho Chi Minh City isn't ringing a bell, it was formerly known as Saigon.
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If the name Ho Chi Minh City isn't ringing a bell, it was formerly known as Saigon.
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One is engulfed by motorbikes seconds away from Ho Chi Minh City airport HCMC is the city's official name, and though busts and portraits of Uncle Ho abound in public buildings, I never heard anyone in Saigon call it Ho Chi Minh City.
The Motorbike Economy Daniel Henninger 2011
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As my Vietnam Airlines flight touches down at Tan Son Nhat airport in Saigon, now known as Ho Chi Minh City, the detritus of war is still visible — military hangars and mortarproof retaining walls left over from the time when thousands of American C-130s and F-5s thundered into the city.
Clean Slate 2008
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In fact, local leaders in Saigon, now known as Ho Chi Minh City, began testing the new approach years earlier by tapping an ethnic-Chinese business class that Hanoi viewed as ideologically suspect.
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Miye is formerly from Saigon and when I queried him about Saigon being called Ho Chi Minh City, he laughed and said that only the government ever refers to it with that name.
Archive 2006-05-01 MaksimSmelchak 2006
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Miye is formerly from Saigon and when I queried him about Saigon being called Ho Chi Minh City, he laughed and said that only the government ever refers to it with that name.
PERSONAL NEWS: Bourgeois Sacramento, the Interconnected Globe & 24 Hour Fitness (20 May 2006)! MaksimSmelchak 2006
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But when the USS Vandergrift docked here at the Port of Saigon in what's now called Ho Chi Minh City, it was accompanied by Vietnamese naval escorts.
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CNN's Senior White House Correspondent John King, fresh from an exclusive interview with the President, joining us from what is now called Ho Chi Minh City, with the latest.
CNN Transcript - Sunday Morning News: President Clinton Visits Saigon - November 20, 2000 2000
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The two cities are vastly different, with Hanoi being what we call a city that possesses a unique character, its quaintness and those things aren't necessarily found in Ho Chi Minh City, which is a real metropolitan area, much more hustle-bustle than even Hanoi, if that would frighten you a little bit, perhaps.
Press Briefing By Ambassador Douglas Pete Peterson ITY National Archives 2000
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