NOUN
- a city in South Vietnam; formerly (as Saigon) it was the capital of French Indochina
How To Use Ho Chi Minh City In A Sentence
- He will experience, together with 60 other fund raisers from across the country, the hospitality of local people in stilted houses in remote villages, as well as Ho Chi Minh city.
- After the war, Saigon was renamed Ho Chi Minh City (though it is still well known by its old name).
- The two cities are vastly different, with Hanoi being what we call a city that possesses a unique character, its quaintness and those things aren't necessarily found in Ho Chi Minh City, which is a real metropolitan area, much more hustle-bustle than even Hanoi, if that would frighten you a little bit, perhaps. Press Briefing By Ambassador Douglas Pete Peterson
- Six of them -- Can Tho, Da Nang, Haiphong, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, and Nha Trang -- account for 40% of the country's sales, according to AC Nielsen estimates from 2007. Growing Up Fast: Vietnam Discovers The Consumer Society
- CNN's Senior White House Correspondent John King, fresh from an exclusive interview with the President, joining us from what is now called Ho Chi Minh City, with the latest. CNN Transcript - Sunday Morning News: President Clinton Visits Saigon - November 20, 2000
- As my Vietnam Airlines flight touches down at Tan Son Nhat airport in Saigon, now known as Ho Chi Minh City, the detritus of war is still visible — military hangars and mortarproof retaining walls left over from the time when thousands of American C-130s and F-5s thundered into the city. Clean Slate
- The nation's industrial heart, Ho Chi Minh City whacks the visitor like a sensorial avalanche.
- His back garden on a hot day could well be in a suburb of Ho Chi Minh City, with its bamboo, lychee, grape vines and images of monkeys.
- In October 1985, Newsday photographer Audrey Tiernan, age 30, on assignment in Ho Chi Minh City, felt a tug on her pant leg.
- The tour visits Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, Halong Bay, Hoi An, the Mekong Delta and a visit to the ancient archeological site at Hue.