Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Ho Chi Minh
city
- History
- 1690s, Nguyen Huu Canh - administrative structures
in the Mekong Delta and its surroundings
- 1956, South Vietnam's independence
-> Saigon-Cholon single city = Saigon
- the capital of the French
colony of Cochin China
- the capital of independent Republic
of South Vietnam from 1955–75.
- 1976, unified Socialist Republic of Vietnam
-> Ho Chi Minh city
- Others (area, population,
weather,...)
- population
- >9,000,000 people
- Viet (93.52%), Chinese
(5.78%), others
- area
- 2,095 km2
- 25 districts
- religion
- Mahayana Buddhism
- Roman Catholicism
- Taoism and Confucianism
- Others: Hòa Hảo, Cao
Đài, Protestantism, Islam, Hinduism, Judaism
- Overview
- The names
- Prey Nokor
- Khmer sea port in the 17th century
- Prey = forest; Nokor = city, town
- Khmer Kingdom
- Khmer Kingdom: 9th to the 13th
- A weakened Khmer state after repeated
warfare with Siam in the 17th century left
the Mekong Delta poorly administered.
- Concurrently Vietnamese pushed into the
area, officially operated a custom house at
Prey Nokor, then a small fishing village
- 1698 Nguyễn Hữu Cảnh
organized the territory.
- increasing waves of Vietnamese settlers to the
Delta isolated the Khmer of the Mekong Delta.
- By 1757, the provinces of Psar Dèk (renamed Sa
Đéc) and Moat Chrouk ( Châu Đốc) on the Bassac
River.
- Gia Dinh( 1690- 1832)
- Saigon (1860s)
- Ho Chi Minh City (July,
2nd, 1976 – present)
- the capital of the French colony of Cochin-china, later of the
independent republic of South Vietnam from 1955–75
- 1760 km to Hanoi
- an area of 2,095 km2 , tropical climate
- the economic center of Vietnam
- Cho Lon
- District 5, 6, 10 & 11 – the largest Chinese
community in Vietnam, other ethnic minorities
- In 1778, The Hoa living in Biên Hòa
>< Tay Son forces and support
Nguyễn lords, moving to Cho Lon
- Speak Cantonese, Teochew (Chaozhou), Hokkien, Hainanese
with only a few speaking Mandarin Chinese