Saigon was renamed for HO CHI MINH, the first leader of North Vietnam and an ardent campaigner for Vietnamese Unification. However, even though the city has been renamed Ho Chi Minh City on most official maps and in official Vietnamese correspondence, most Vietnamese still call the city Saigon.
Saigon was renamed as Ho Chi Minh City
First it was called Saigon, now it is named Ho Chi Min city.
It is now calledHo Chi Minh City.
The South Vietnamese capital Saigon , now renamed Ho Chi Minh City , fell to the communists April 30th 1975 .
Saigon is in South Vietnam - below China _____________ Saigon and South Vietnam no longer exist. South and North Vietnam were merged into Vietnam and Saigon was renamed to Ho-Chi-Minh City or Thanh-pho Ho-Chi-Minh. It is located at 10.45 N Latitude and 106.40 E Longitude.
April 30th 1975
Well if I could sum it up, It's when in 1975, Saigon fell.
District 1 of Ho Chi Minh city is Saigon
Saigon became Ho Chi Minh City. It was named after the former Chairman of North Vietnam. He had served for most of the war with the South.
First it was called Saigon, now it is named Ho Chi Min city.
First it was called Saigon, now it is named Ho Chi Min city.
Saigon is now officially known as Ho Chi Minh City.