Thạnh Mỹ Tây, Ho Chi Minh City
ward of Ho Chi Minh City
Thạnh Mỹ Tây (Vietnamese: Phường Thạnh Mỹ Tây) is a ward of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It is one of the 168 new wards, communes and special zones of the city following the reorganization in 2025.
Geography
Thạnh Mỹ Tây is one of the central wards of Ho Chi Minh City, it borders to:
Bình Quới ward to the North by Thanh Đa Channel
Saigon ward to the South by Nhiêu Lộc – Thị Nghè Channel
An Khánh ward to the East by Saigon River
Bình Thạnh and Gia Định wards to the West by Xô Viết Nghệ Tĩnh Street.
According to Official Dispatch No. 2896/BNV-CQĐP dated May 27, 2025 of the Ministry of Home Affairs, following the merger, Thạnh Mỹ Tây has a land area of 4.40 km², the population as of December 31, 2024 is 153,216 people, the population density is 34,821 people/km².
Etymology
According to Historian Nguyễn Đình Tư, the name Thạnh Mỹ village covered a large area of land on both sides of the Saigon River. Initially, the village belonged to Gò Vấp district, Gia Định province (for a period it belonged to Tân Bình province). Later, when the exploitation expanded, people divided the area on the east bank into Thạnh Mỹ Lợi (in former Thủ Đức) and the remaining area on the west bank was called Thạnh Mỹ Tây (means West Thạnh Mỹ).
However, some government documents from the French Indochina period state that in 1929, Thạnh Đa commune merged with two communes, Phú Mỹ and Phú An, to form Thạnh Mỹ An. In 1934, Thạnh Mỹ An merged with Bình Quới Tây (Bình Quới ward nowadays) to form Thạnh Mỹ Tây commune; or Thạnh Mỹ Tây commune could be the merger of three communes, Thạnh Đa, Bình Lợi Trung, and Bình Quới Tây.
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