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Saigon (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 10 45 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 10.7500 decimal degrees |
| Long: 106 40 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 106.6667 decimal degrees |
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Note: Administratively autonomous city; Vietnamese first entered region 1600s; seized by French 1859; Vietnamese emperor Tu Duc ceded town to France 1862; base of American military operations during Vietnam War; captured by North Vietnamese forces in 1975. |
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| Hồ Chí Minh, Thành Phố (preferred,C,V)
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| Thành Phố Hồ Chí Minh (C,V,display)
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| Ho Chi Minh City (C,O)
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| Thanh-pho Ho Chi Minh (C,V)
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| סייגון (C,U,Hebrew )
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| Sai-gon (H,V)
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| Saigon (H,V,English-P)
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Asia (continent) (P) |
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Saigon (inhabited place) (P) |
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Place Types: |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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| city (C) |
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| provincial capital (C) |
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| administrative center (C) |
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| capital (H) |
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of French protectorate Cochinchina, 1862-1954; of South Vietnam, 1954-1975 |
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