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 Thought Ho Chi Minh Thought Ho Chi Minh Thought (; literally "Thoughts of Ho Chi Minh") is the political philosophy of the Communist Party of Vietnam. Since 1991, the contents of Ho Chi Minh's thought were formed and developed in association with the periods of Ho Chi Minh's activities in the revolutionary movement of Vietnam and internationally as integral to the curriculum of fundamental instruction for civil servants in Vietnam. At the beginning and the middle of the 20th century, Ho Chi Minh thought was the crystallization of Vietnamese culture, French revolutionary ideas, liberal ideas, Marxist–Leninist communist ideals and Ho Chi