1960 Saigon Moi City Map or Plan of Saigon, South Vietnam

This is a c. 1960 Saigon Moi Newspaper city map or plan of Saigon, South Vietnam. The map depicts the city center, roughly District 1 of today's Ho Chi Minh City. Streets throughout the district are labeled. Forty-four locations are numerically identified and correspond with an index situated in the lower right corner. Street signs are illustrated along the left and right borders and captions provide instruction as to what each sign means. Photographs of sites all across the city are situated along the top and bottom borders. Some of the photographed sites include a post office, City Hall, Le Loi Boulevard, and Saigon Market. An alphabetical street index is situated along the bottom border.

Publication History

This map was created and published by Saigon Moi Newspaper, one of several daily newspapers published in Saigon, c. 1960.