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Tân Phú

Tân Phú District was an urban district of Ho Chi Minh City, the largest city in Vietnam.

Tân Phú
Tân Phú · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Tân Phú District was an urban district of Ho Chi Minh City, the largest city in Vietnam. Established in 2003 from the division of Tân Bình district, it covered an area of 15.97 km² and had a population of 585,348 as of 2024. The district was dissolved on June 30, 2025, following a national resolution to reorganize administrative units, with its wards merged and redistributed.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Tân Phú

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
    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.

    7.7 km · university in Ho Chi Minh City · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    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.

    8.2 km · cathedral located in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    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.

    7.4 km · military museum in Vietnam · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    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.

    7.8 km · Presidential Palace of South Vietnam · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    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.

    8.6 km · opera house in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    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.

    5.4 km · stadium in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    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.

    8.2 km · market in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    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.

    8.5 km · city hall of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    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.

    8.7 km · zoo in District , Ho Chi Minh City · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Museum of Ho Chi Minh City

    Museum of Ho Chi Minh City, formerly known as Gia Long Palace, is a historical site and museum in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The museum is situated at the corner of Lý Tự Trọng and Nam Kỳ Khởi Nghĩa streets, located on a 2-hectare block near the Independence Palace.

    8.3 km · museum in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Tân Phú

Airports
Tan Son Nhat (SGN), 4 km · Can Tho (VCA), 127 km · Techo (KTI), 196 km
Stations
Tan Son Nhat International Airport, 4.2 km · Saigon railway station, 5.8 km · Bến Thành station, 8.3 km · Opera House station, 8.6 km · Ba Son station, 9.1 km
  • Can Tho → Tân Phú
    226 km · quickest by road, 4h 38m · ₫267,000–356,000
  • Phu Quoc Island → Tân Phú
    391 km · quickest by air, 8h 15m · ₫1,927,980–2,950,370
  • Nha Trang/nha Trang aiurportCam Ranh → Tân Phú
    194 km · quickest by road, 5h 19m · ₫289,000–386,000
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Tân Phú

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 Phú. 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

    269 km
  2. 02
    Koh Rong and Koh Rong SanloemKH

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    371 km
  3. 03
    Siem ReapKH

    9 ways of moving, 28 sources

    415 km
  4. 04
    Ko ChangTH

    9 ways of moving, 30 sources

    484 km
  5. 05
    Pakse and Si Phan DonLA

    12 ways of moving, 45 sources

    489 km

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

Around it

Next door to Tân Phú

Tân Phú is 3 km from Ho Chi Minh City, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.