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War Remnants Museum
A deeply affecting museum in Ho Chi Minh City documenting the Vietnam War primarily from the Vietnamese perspective.
6 km · about 10 min drive
Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), Vietnam · Asia
Chợ Lớn is worth a stop: 10 minutes from Quận Tân Phú, 6km from War Remnants Museum.
Chợ Lớn is a city located in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), Vietnam. With a population of 561,000, it is an important destination in Asia.
On a road trip, Chợ Lớn sits in Vietnam, where you drive on the right. It's in the Asia/Ho Chi Minh time zone. Below you'll find where to stay, things to do nearby, and everything you need to add Chợ Lớn to your route.
Chợ Lớn (, Chinese: 堤岸), usually anglicized as "Cholon" in English sources, is a quarter of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It lies on the west bank of the Saigon River, having Bình Tây Market as its central market. Chợ Lớn consists of the western half of District 5 as well as several adjoining neighborhoods in District 6Read more
and District 11, the extended area of Chợ Lớn is included part of District 8 (along the Tàu Hủ Canal), District 10 in older time and wards of An Lạc, Bình Trị Đông of Bình Tân district in modern time. The quarter has long been inhabited by Chinese people and is considered the largest Chinatown in the world by area.
The Vietnamese name Chợ Lớn literally means "big" (lớn) "market" (chợ). The Chinese (and original) name is 堤岸 (In Cantonese, tai4 ngon6, Yale romanization: Tàihngohn), which is occasionally rendered in Vietnamese orthography as Thầy Ngòn or Thì Ngòn, and in Mandarin, Dī'àn), which means "embankment" (French: quais). The Sino-Vietnamese reading of the Chinese name is Đê Ngạn, but this is rarely used. Vietnamese speakers exclusively use the name Chợ Lớn, while Chinese speakers (both inside Vietnam and in China) are the only users of the original Chinese name.
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Chợ Lớn is located in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), Vietnam, Asia. The coordinates are 10.7500 latitude, 106.6500 longitude.
Chợ Lớn has a population of approximately 561,000 people, making it a city in Vietnam.
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A deeply affecting museum in Ho Chi Minh City documenting the Vietnam War primarily from the Vietnamese perspective.
6 km · about 10 min drive
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Vietnam's largest and most dynamic city with French colonial architecture, buzzing motorbike traffic, and vibrant street food culture.
6 km · about 10 min drive
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An immense network of underground tunnels used by Viet Cong guerrillas during the Vietnam War, now open to visitors to crawl through.
48 km · about 55 min drive
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