Ho Chi Minh City, formerly known as Saigon, is the largest city in Vietnam. Located in the south of the country in the wide Mekong Delta, it is at the confluence of the Saigon River with the South China Sea. Once the most important port and capital of South Vietnam, today it is an economic, financial and increasingly important tourist center dominated by skyscrapers and modern buildings. One of the most populous metropolises of Indochina, in addition to tradition, culture and gastronomy, it is d

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