Did vietnam name Ho Chi Minh City after Ho Chi Minh?

Question

if so when and why?

Answer 1

You were thinking it was a coincidence maybe? Like Washington? :)

It used to be Saigon, it was renamed after the war, in around 1975, to honor Ho Chi Minh.

Answer 2

while the Vietnamese people kicked the distant places invaders/occupiers out of the Southern area of their united states of america in 1975, they desperate to rename the biggest city in Vietnam after the chief that had led the Vietnamese revolution and liberation flow for some years, the late President Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969). it relatively is why the former city of Saigon became into renamed Ho Chi Minh city.

Answer 3

Yes. It used to be called Saigon, and from 1954-1975, it was the capital of South Vietnam. The US fought to keep South Vietnam independent from North Vietnam and non-communist. But, after the US began pulling all of its troops out in 1973, the South Vietnamese army was not able to beat back the Communists and in 1975, the capital city fell to the Communists from North Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh was the nationalist (and Communist) leader of North Vietnam at the time and had the city renamed.

And for the reference, Stalin did not rename Leningrad Stalingrad. Stalingrad is a separate city on the Volga river, closer to the interior of Russia. It used to be called Tsaritsyn. It has since been renamed Volgograd. It was Lenin who renamed Petrograd Leningrad, and it was the tsar who renamed St. Petersburg Petrograd after the outbreak of WWI (St. Petersburg sounded too German - and they were fighting the Germans).

Answer 4

Yes.
In 1975, at the end of the Vietnam War.

Why? Why did Stalin rename Leningrad "Stalingrad" ? (renaming what Lenin had, in fact, already re-named, since it was originally - and now again - St. Petersberg). Ho Chi Minh was probably copying them

The city was, in fact, orginally called "Prey Nokor". It became known as "Sai Gon" by Vietnamese immigrants, but the official name was "Gia Ðịnh", but the French didn't like the sound of that and re-re-named the city "Saigon".

So, possibly, the Vietnamese government re-named it after Ho Chi Minh to try and get rid of a colonial reminder, but apparently it didn't take. It seems the residents of the city actually like calling it "Saigon."

Answer 5

Hồ Chí Minh listen (help·info) (Chinese: 胡志明; May 19, 1890 – September 2, 1969) was a Vietnamese revolutionary and statesman, who later became Prime Minister (1946–1955) and President (1955–1969) of North Vietnam.

He was originally named Nguyễn Sinh Cung. He was also known as Nguyễn Tất Thành (阮必成: 'Nguyễn will accomplish'), Nguyễn Ái Quốc (阮愛國: 'Nguyễn the patriot'), Lý Thụy (李瑞) and Hồ Quang (among others), and is popularly called Bác Hồ ('Uncle Hồ') in Vietnam. The name Hồ Chí Minh means "he who enlightens." He is most famous for being the founder of the Viet Minh independence movement in 1941 and establishing Communist control in part of Vietnam in the 1950s.

Ho was fluent in English, several dialects of Chinese, French, German and Russian besides his native Vietnamese.[1] Ho Chi Minh City was named after him.

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Answer 6

Yes it was to honor Ho Chi Minh. I had just come home from Viet Nam, after the war.

Answer 7

I am only responding to this question to correct the glaring mistake made by Elise K!
Stalin never renamed Leningrad, the former St. Petersburg. The city of Stalingrad was in an entirely different part of the Soviet Union.
And I would advise Elise K to get her facts straight before feeding such crap to unsuspecting readers of her answer.

Answer 8

Yes, renamed after Ho. But the locals aren't buying it -- still call it Saigon

Answer 9

No, it was named after some cookies by the same name? You wasted your time on this question?