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Sai Gon

Sai Gon is the alternative form of Saigon.

Meaning of Saigon

Proper noun

Saigon

  1. (historical, informal) The former name of Ho Chi Minh City, the largest city in Vietnam; the former capital of South Vietnam.
    • But news that the North Vietnamese had launched an invasion more akin to the blitzkrieg of Poland than to a Maoist "people's war," and had overrun my old base camp 30 miles up Thunder Road from Saigon, turned my heart to lead.2000 April 26, Walter A. McDougall, “Who Were We in Vietnam?”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 27 May 2015, retrieved 03 Aug 2008
  2. A ward of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Questions about Sai Gon

What is Sai Gon the alternative form of?
Sai Gon is the alternative form of Saigon.

Words near Sai Gon in the dictionary

  1. sahur
  2. Sahus
  3. sahwa
  4. Sahą́ı̨́ʔą
  5. sai
  6. Sai Gon
  7. sai kang warrior
  8. sai kang warriors
  9. Sai Kung
  10. Sai Kung North
  11. Sai Van Lake

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Sai Gon (page history and authors); Saigon (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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