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Travel Guide, Ho Chi Minh

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  • When to go: From January to May and from July to December.
  • Population: 8,000,000 inhabitants
  • Tourists per year: 4,600,000
  • Area: 2,000 km2
  • Language(s): Vietnamese (official), English (increasingly favored as a second language), some French, Chinese, and Khmer; mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian)
  • Altitude (in meters): 19
  • Telephone code (prefix): 84
  • Major exports: crude oil, marine products, rice, coffee, rubber, tea, garments, shoes
  • Major imports: machinery and equipment, petroleum products, fertilizer, steel products, raw cotton, grain, cement, motorcycles

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