name The former name of Ho Chi Minh City, once the capital of South Vietnam.
- They met at a bar in Saigon, dated, fell in love, and, a year later, married right there in the city’s central courthouse.
— Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (2019)
- 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.
— Walter A. McDougall, Who Were We in Vietnam? (2000)
- The film is set in Saigon during the final days before its fall in 1975.
