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Cho Lon

Saigon's historic Chinatown

About the neighborhood

Ward in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Chợ Lớn (Vietnamese: Phường Chợ Lớn) is a ward of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It is one of the 168 new wards, communes and special zones of the city following the reorganization in 2025.

History

On June 16, 2025, the National Assembly Standing Committee issued Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15 on the arrangement of commune-level administrative units of Ho Chi Minh City in 2025 (effective from June 16, 2025). Accordingly, the entire land area and population of Ward 11, Ward 12, Ward 13 and Ward 14 of the former District 5 will be integrated into a new ward named Chợ Lớn (Clause 13, Article 1).

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Encyclopedic content adapted from the Wikipedia article on Cho Lon, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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