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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.

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