a city in South Vietnam; formerly (as Saigon) it was the capital of French Indochina

Captial of French colonial Vietnam and later of South Vietnam; renamed Ho Chi Minh City after Vietnam's reunification in 1975, but still often referred to as Saigon.

The capital of South Vietnam, not directly attacked by NVA forces until after the U.S. withdrawal, but was subject to small-scale attacks by well-organized VC guerilla troops on many occasions