Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ho Chi Minh City Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ho Chi Minh City The Archdiocese (Metropolitan) of Ho Chi Minh City (former Saigon; , , ) is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory in the South of Vietnam. It is the biggest by population in the country. The renaming former Archdiocese of Saigon to Archdiocese of Ho Chi Minh city was declared November 23, 1976. It covers an area of 2,390 km². The suffragan dioceses are: Immaculate Conception Cathedral Basilica ("Vương cung thánh đường Chính tòa Đức Mẹ Vô nhiễm Nguyên tội - Nhà thờ Đức Bà Sài Gòn") in Ho Chi Minh City has been
Ho Chi Minh Highway Ho Chi Minh Highway Ho Chi Minh Road or Ho Chi Minh Highway () is a highway in Vietnam. It runs from the north to the south of Vietnam, west of National Route 1A. The highway was named after Hồ Chí Minh. The route roughly coincides with the Ho Chi Minh trail during the Vietnam War. It is a two-lane highway and is planned to become an 8-lane highway and it will connect Cao Bằng Province by the Sino-Vietnamese border to Cà Mau Province with the total length of 3,167 km. As of 2007, this road runs from Hoa Lac