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Ho Chi Minh City is a city in Vietnam. The origin of its name is: 1975. After the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) was overthrown by the North Vietnamese government, Vietnam * * * commemorates Ho Chi Minh, the main founder of Vietnam's * * * Production Party (Vietnamese Thành ph? h？ Chí Minh (Chengpu Ho Chi Minh), abbreviated as TPHCM.

English translated into Ho Chi Minh City, abbreviated as HCMC；; ; French has been translated into Ho Chi Minh City (HCMV for short), but Saigon still often appears in company names, book titles and language studies.

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Attractions in Ho Chi Minh City:

1, Red Church

The Red Church next to the Centennial Post Office is the most famous landmark in Ho Chi Minh City, because it is built with red bricks. The name of the red church is due to its red appearance, and Notre Dame is its real name.

2. Unification Palace

With the signing of the Geneva Agreement in 1954, France withdrew its troops from Vietnam. In September of the same year, "Norodom Palace" was handed over to the puppet regime of Wu Tingyan in Saigon and renamed as "Independence Palace". 1On July 27th, 962, two anti-war pilots belonging to the puppet regime in Saigon dropped bombs on the Independence Palace, causing it to partially collapse.

At the end of 1962, the puppet regime in Saigon was rebuilt, expanding its area and building solid defense facilities, such as basements and roof platforms, for helicopters to take off and land.

1April 30, 975, the Battle of Ho Chi Minh ended and Saigon was liberated. According to the decision of the National Political Consultative Conference of Vietnam, from June 1975 1 1, the "Independence Palace" was renamed "Unification Palace" as a symbol of the Vietnamese people's independence and unified will.

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