Names of Ho Chi Minh City Mekong Delta for centuries. The city was known as "Prey Nôkôr" () to the Khmer Empire, which likely maintained a settlement centuries before its rise in the 11th and 12th centuries. The most popular interpretation of the name, and one supported by former Cambodian King Norodom Sihanouk, suggests that the name means "forest city" or "forest kingdom"—"prey" meaning forest or jungle, and "nôkôr" being a Khmer word of Sanskrit origin meaning city or kingdom. The name "Krŭng Prey Nôkôr" (; "Prey Nôkôr City") is currently used to refer to Ho Chi Minh City in the Khmer language. Beginning in the
Ho Chi Minh Museum Ho Chi Minh Museum The Ho Chi Minh Museum is located in Hanoi, Vietnam. Constructed in the 1990s, it is dedicated to the late Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh and Vietnam's revolutionary struggle against foreign powers. Ho Chi Minh museum is located in the Ho Chi Minh complex. The museum documents Ho Chi Minh’s life, with 8 chronological topics. The first one, from 1890 to 1910 modeled after his upbringing, hometown and youth. The second topic concerns the next ten years where Ho Chi Minh travelled the world to find out a way to rescue the country from colonialism. The