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The Saigon Central Post Office (Vietnamese: Bưu điện Trung tâm Sài Gòn, French: Poste centrale de Saïgon), is a post office in downtown Ho Chi Minh City, near Saigon Notre-Dame Basilica, the city's cathedral.
Francis Xavier Truong Buu Diep (Vietnamese: Phanxicô Xaviê Trương Bửu Diệp or Cha Diệp; January 1, 1897 – March 12, 1946) was a Vietnamese Catholic priest who served the people of Bạc Liêu Province. [1] He was killed for the faith in 1946 and is set to be beatified in the Catholic Church.
After the North Vietnamese communist invasion of South Vietnam, on 12 August 1978 the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee ordered that the former Supreme Court be used as the Ho Chi Minh City Revolutionary Museum (Bảo tàng Cách mạng Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh), later renamed to its current name on 13 December 1999.
Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC; Vietnamese: Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh), commonly known as Saigon (Vietnamese: Sài Gòn), is the most populous city in Vietnam with a population of around 10 million in 2023. [7] The city's geography is defined by rivers and canals, of which the largest is Saigon River.
Tân Bình is situated within the urban core of Ho Chi Minh City. It borders Phú Nhuận and District 3 to the east, Tân Phú to the west, District 10 and District 11 to the south, District 12 and Gò Vấp to the north. Most of the district landscape is flat.
Name Language of origin Literal translation Meaning and notes Bình Tân: Sino-Vietnamese: Peaceful New: Named after Bình Hưng Hòa, [note 1] Bình Trị Đông [note 2] and Tân Tạo, [note 3] [3] the three communes formerly in Bình Chánh District, [4] from which Bình Tân District was formed in 2003.
Eventually, a set of definitive stamps depicting Ho Chi Minh were issued in 1946. 1951 30 piastres stamp issued by the Bảo Đại government. The ensuing conflict between the returning French troops and the Viet Minh government brought an end to the initial series of Viet Minh stamps.
District 12 (Vietnamese: Quận 12) is an urban district of Ho Chi Minh City, the largest and most populous city in Vietnam. As of 2010, the district had a population of 427,083. [1] The district covers an area of 53.0 km². [1] The district is divided into 11 small subsets which are called wards.