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Ho Chi Minh City Business Overview by Asia Briefing is a document available to read on EtoBox.

Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC, known as Saigon until 1976) is much younger than Hanoi, with many historians dating the city at just over 300 years old. A prosperous and densely-populated trade hub, the city is today considered the commercial and economic center of Vietnam. HCMC is actually a municipality (on the same governmental level as a province) and, with a population of over 7 million, it is the most populous province/municipality in Vietnam. The inhabitants of HCMC – the "Saigonese" – are generally seen

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Asia Briefing

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