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The Consulate General of the United States of America, Ho Chi Minh City represents the interests of the United States government in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly known as Saigon), Vietnam. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The consulate reports to the ambassador at the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi .
The United States Embassy in Saigon was first established in June 1952, and moved into a new building in 1967 and eventually closed in 1975. The embassy was the scene of a number of significant events of the Vietnam War, most notably the Viet Cong attack during the Tet Offensive which helped turn American public opinion against the war, and the helicopter evacuation during the Fall of Saigon ...
Since the normalization of United States–Vietnam relations in 1995, the US Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City stands adjacent to the site of the former embassy which was demolished in 1998. The US Ambassador to Vietnam is now seated in the US Embassy in Hanoi, the former capital city of North Vietnam and the current capital of the unified ...
This is a list of diplomatic missions in Vietnam.The capital, Hanoi currently hosts 78 embassies. Ho Chi Minh City and Da Nang are host to career consulates.. This listing omits honorary consulates and trade missions, except for those that serve as de facto embassies.
The U.S. Embassy in Vietnam is located in Hanoi. The U.S. Consulate General is located in Ho Chi Minh City. The Vietnamese Consulate General to the U.S. is located in San Francisco, California. In 2009, the United States received permission to open a consulate in Da Nang; in 2010, Vietnam officially inaugurated a consulate general in Houston.
The United States Office for MIA Affairs officially opened in Hanoi on July 7, 1991, marking the first continuous presence of an official U.S. government agency in Vietnam since 1975. The U.S. Embassy in Hanoi was inaugurated on August 6, 1995, during Secretary of State Warren Christopher 's visit.
U.S. Department of State Facilities and Areas of Jurisdictions. The United States has the second largest number of active diplomatic posts of any country in the world after the People's Republic of China, [1] including 271 bilateral posts (embassies and consulates) in 173 countries, as well as 11 permanent missions to international organizations and seven other posts (as of November 2023 [2]).
The United States ambassador to Vietnam (Vietnamese: Đại sứ Hoa Kỳ tại Việt Nam) is the chief American diplomat to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.After the First Indochina War and the defeat of the French domination over Vietnam, the country was split into North and South Vietnam (the Republic of Vietnam) at the Geneva Conference of 1954.