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Tân Bình

Tân Bình was a former urban district of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Tân Bình
Tân Bình · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Tân Bình was a former urban district of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The city's international airport was situated in the district. It consisted of 15 wards, from Ward 1 to Ward 15. It occupied 22.43 km2 (8.66 sq mi). In the 2019 census, Tân Bình district had a population of 474,792 people.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Tân Bình

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Landmark 81

    Landmark 81 is a supertall skyscraper in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It is primarily invested in and developed by Vinhomes, the largest Vietnamese real-estate developer.

    7.4 km · skyscraper · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Vietnam National University

    Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City is a public research university system in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. VNU–HCM is one of two Vietnam's national universities, the other one being Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

    4.6 km · university in Ho Chi Minh City · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Saigon Notre-Dame Basilica

    Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica of Saigon, officially the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception is a cathedral located in the Saigon ward of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The cathedral, established by French administrators who originally named it the Church of Saigon, was constructed between 1877 and 1880.

    5.1 km · cathedral located in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    War Remnants Museum

    The War Remnants Museum is a war museum at 28 Võ Văn Tần Street, Xuân Hòa, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It contains exhibits relating to the First Indochina War and the Vietnam War.

    4.4 km · military museum in Vietnam · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Independence Palace

    The Independence Palace, also publicly and officially known as the Reunification Convention Hall or simply Reunification Hall, is a historic landmark and government-owned public hall in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It was designed by architect Ngô Viết Thụ and was the presidential palace, home and workplace of the president of the Republic of Vietnam.

    4.9 km · Presidential Palace of South Vietnam · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Saigon Opera House

    Saigon Opera House is a municipal opera house in downtown Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Like other French-built opera houses during French colonial period, including Hanoi Opera House and Haiphong Opera House, it is an example of French Colonial architecture in Vietnam.

    5.6 km · opera house in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Thong Nhat Stadium

    Thống Nhất Stadium, formerly Cộng Hoà Stadium is the second-largest multi-purpose stadium in Ho Chi Minh City, and the oldest in Vietnam. It is located on 138 Đào Duy Từ Street, Diên Hồng.

    3.8 km · stadium in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Bến Thành Market

    Bến Thành Market is located in the center of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam in District 1. The market is one of the earliest surviving structures in the city and an important symbol of the city.

    5.3 km · market in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Ho Chi Minh City Hall

    Ho Chi Minh City Hall, officially called the Ho Chi Minh City People's Council and People's Committee Head Office, is a city hall and the seat of the government of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It is located in downtown Ho Chi Minh City's Saigon ward, between Pasteur, Lý Tự Trọng, Đồng Khởi, and Lê Thánh Tôn Street, with its front facade facing Nguyễn Huệ Boulevard.

    5.4 km · city hall of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Saigon Zoo and Botanical Gardens

    The Saigon Zoo and Botanical Gardens, or locally and coloquially known as The Zoo, is Vietnam's oldest zoo and botanical garden. The Saigon Zoo and Botanical Gardens was commissioned by Admiral Pierre-Paul de La Grandière in 1864, and was opened to the public in 1869, making it one of the world's oldest continuously operating zoos.

    5.5 km · zoo in District , Ho Chi Minh City · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Tân Bình

Airports
Tan Son Nhat (SGN), 3 km · Can Tho (VCA), 130 km · Techo (KTI), 199 km
Stations
Tan Son Nhat International Airport, 2.8 km · Saigon railway station, 2.8 km · Bến Thành station, 5.4 km · Opera House station, 5.6 km
  • Can Tho → Tân Bình
    128 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · ₫155,000–207,000
  • Phu Quoc Island → Tân Bình
    296 km · quickest by air, 3h 53m · ₫1,165,530–1,801,720
  • Nha Trang/nha Trang aiurportCam Ranh → Tân Bình
    292 km · quickest by air, 4h 24m · ₫1,301,270–2,012,760
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Tân Bình

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Tân Bình. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundTaxis are mostly Toyota Vios sedans (up to four passengers) and Toyota Innova minivans (up to six passengers), which are assembled in Vietnam and inexpensive to buy.
  • Go nextCu Chi Tunnel — day-trips are tirelessly flogged by travel agencies around Pham Ngu Lao, and can be done as a half-day trip, or as a full-day with a stop at Tay Ninh to see the Holy See of the Cao Dai religion.
  • Go nextOne way to get to the tunnels is by speedboat.

From Wikivoyage: Ho Chi Minh City, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    KampotKH

    12 ways of moving, 47 sources

    273 km
  2. 02
    Koh Rong and Koh Rong SanloemKH

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    374 km
  3. 03
    Siem ReapKH

    9 ways of moving, 28 sources

    417 km
  4. 04
    Ko ChangTH

    9 ways of moving, 30 sources

    487 km
  5. 05
    Pakse and Si Phan DonLA

    12 ways of moving, 45 sources

    490 km

If you know how people move in Tân Bình – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Tân Bình

Tân Bình is 3 km from Quận Mười, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Ho Chi Minh Citylargest city in Vietnam5.6 km
  • Cholonquarter of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, known as Chinatown4.8 km
  • District 1urban district of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam5.4 km
  • Bình ThạnhUrban District of Ho Chi Minh City6.3 km
  • District 4Urban District of Ho Chi Minh City6.6 km
  • District 6Urban District of Ho Chi Minh City6.1 km