District 12, Ho Chi Minh City District 12, Ho Chi Minh City District 12 () is an urban district ("quận") of Ho Chi Minh City, the largest and most populous city in Vietnam. As of 2010, the district had a population of 427,083. The district covers an area of 53,0 km². The district is divided into 11 small subsets which are called wards. It borders Hóc Môn District to the north, Thủ Đức District and Bình Dương Province to the east, Bình Tân District to the west and Tân Bình and Gò Vấp districts to the south. The district consists of 10 wards: The goal of
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