Vietnam: A market near Saigon with ethnic Vietnamese, Hoa Chinese and Indians represented. Engraving by Claud Jean Albert Morice (28 May 1848 - 19 October 1877), 1872. Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnamese: Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, better known as Saigon (Vietnamese: Sài Gòn) is the largest city in Vietnam. It was once known as Prey Nokor, an important Khmer sea port prior to annexation by the Vietnamese in the 17th century. Under the name Saigon, it was the capital of the French colony of Cochinchina and later of the independent state of South Vietnam from 1955 to 1975.

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