Ho Chi Minh City

Location
Ho Chi Minh City is located in the south-eastern region of Vietnam, 1,760 km (1,090 mi) south of Hanoi. The average elevation is 19 metres (62 ft) above sea level. It borders Tây Ninh Province and Bình Dương Province to the north, Đồng Nai Province and Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu Province to the east, Long An Province to the west and the East Sea to the south with a coast 15 km (9 mi) long.

Characteristic
280 km in length, 45 – 75 km in width. There are many jackfruit trees at the bottom of the mountains. From the ground to the 700m height is the tropical belt with densely primary forest and interlaced lianas. Above 700m is covered with gymnosperms, such as Fujian cypress tree with 50 – 60m in height and around hundred years old. Throughout the year, Fansipan is covered in numerous garish flowers, some of those are really rare to find in the plains. Above 2.400m, fog becomes less dense, the sky is clearer. The ground is covered with bamboo tree. As you reach to the top of the mountain, what caught your eyes are many enormous stone slabs. This is how the Fansipan peak is formed.

Ho Chi Minh ‘s population is about 10 million people, making it the most populous metropolitan area in Vietnam. The city's population is expected to grow to 13.9 million by 2025.The Ho Chi Minh City Metropolitan Area, a metropolitan area covering most parts of the southeast region plus Tiền Giang Province and Long An Province under planning, will have an area of 30,000 square kilometres (12,000 sq mi) with a population of 20 million inhabitants by 2020.

History
At the conclusion of the Vietnam War on 30 April 1975, the city came under the control of the Vietnamese People's Army. Among Vietnamese diaspora communities and particularly the U.S. (which had fought the communists), this event is commonly called the "fall of Saigon", while the Socialist Republic of Vietnam refers to it as the "Liberation of Saigon". In 1976, upon the establishment of the unified communist Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the city of Saigon (including Cholon), the province of Gia Ðịnh and two suburban districts of two other nearby provinces were combined to create Ho Chi Minh City in honor of the late Communist leader Hồ Chí Minh. The former name Saigon is still widely used by many Vietnamese, especially in informal contexts. Generally, the term Saigon refers only to the urban districts of Ho Chi Minh City.

Activities
Hiking, Photography, Eating

Special event in year
Nguyen Hue Flower Street Festival

Tao Dan Spring Flowers Festival

King Hung's Commemoration

Book Reading Festival

Southern Fruit Festival

Specialty
Banh mi

Pho

Bun rieu

Bun bo hue

Banh cuon

Bun thit nuong

How to go
Bus

Scooter

Xich lo

Uber, Grab, Taxi.