Gò Vấp district

Gò Vấp district Quận Gò Vấp
Urban district
Hạnh Thông Tây market in Gò Vấp urban district.
Seal
Position in HCMC's core
Coordinates: 10°50′30″N 106°40′00″E
Country	Vietnam
Centrally governed city	Ho Chi Minh City
District hall	332 Quang Trung avenue, Ward 10
Wards	12 wards
Area
• Total	20 km2 (8 sq mi)
Population  (2024)
• Total	763,313
• Density	38,000/km2 (99,000/sq mi)
Demographics
• Main ethnic groups	predominantly Kinh
Time zone	UTC+07 (ICT)
Website	govap.hochiminhcity.gov.vn

Gò Vấp [ɣɔ˨˩:jəp˧˥] is an urban district of Ho Chi Minh City.

History

Since the 1980s, Gò Vấp has undergone significant urbanization. It is more populous than most of the other districts.

A high urbanization rate has made Gò Vấp become one of the three districts that has high population growth in the city. Specifically, Gò Vấp had 144,000 people in 1976, and the population increased to 223,000 people in 1995, 231,000 people in 2000, 413,000 people in 2003, and 455,000 people in 2004. From 1980 to 2003, the population of Gò Vấp increased to nearly 3 times its population, and on average, increased 13.66% annually. According to the population census in 2017, the population of Gò Vấp was 663,313 people, the second-most population among other districts in Vietnam, right after Bình Tân district, also in Ho Chi Minh City.

Geography

Topography

Nguyen Van Nghi street.

Gò Vấp is an urban district located in the north and northwest of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Gò Vấp borders District 12 in the north and west, Phú Nhuận District in the south, Tân Bình District in the west, and Bình Thạnh District in the east. The total land area is 20 km² (7.7 sq mi).

In July 1976, two wards (Bình Hòa and Thạnh Mỹ Tây) splitted from Gò Vấp District to create the new Bình Thạnh district. Later, the communes of Bình Mỹ joined Củ Chi district, and Nhị Bình, Tân Thới Hiệp, Thạnh Lộc and An Phú Đông joined Hóc Môn district (the two latter were splitted to create the District 12). Gò Vấp District was consists of 16 wards—1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17. Until 2025, when some wards were dissolved and merged into the other wards nearby, including: 4 and 7 into 1, 9 into 8, 13 into 14 and 15. The district has 12 wards tally.

Historically, Gò Vấp was part of Gia Định province until 1976, when the province was annexed to the city of Saigon and renamed into Ho Chi Minh City.

Population

According to the population census in 2017 of Ho Chi Minh City's Census Bureau, the district's population was 663,313 people, and the population density was 33,602 people per square kilometer. There are 8 ethnic groups in Gò Vấp, which are the Kinh people (98%), the Hoa people (1.8%), and the other 6 minor ethnic groups (0.2%).

See also

• Bình Thạnh district
• Phú Nhuận district
• Tân Bình district

Further reading

Bibliography

Vietnamese

• Sơn Nam, Nói về miền Nam (Talk about the South), publishing by Lá Bối, Saigon, 1967.
• Sơn Nam, Văn minh miệt vườn (The Civilization of the Countryside), publishing by An Tiêm, Saigon, 1970.
• Sơn Nam, Lịch sử khẩn hoang miền Nam (History of Reclamation in the South), publishing by Đông Phố, Saigon, 1973.
• Sơn Nam, Cá tính miền Nam (The Personality of the South), publishing by Đông Phố, Saigon, 1974.
• Sơn Nam, Đồng bằng sông Cửu Long - nét sinh hoạt xưa (The Mekong Delta and Its Old Lifestyle), publishing by Hochiminh-City Publishing House, Saigon, 1985.
• Sơn Nam, Danh thắng miền Nam (Famous Landscapes of the South), publishing by Đồng Tháp P. H., Cao Lãnh, 1998.
• Sơn Nam, Tiếp cận đồng bằng sông Cửu Long (Access to the Mekong Delta), publishing by Trẻ P. H., Saigon, 2000.
• Trần Ngọc Thêm. Cơ sở văn hóa Việt Nam (The Foundation of Vietnamese Culture), 504 pages. Publishing by Nhà xuất bản Đại học Tổng hợp TPHCM. Saigon, Vietnam, 1995.

English

• George Coedes. The Making of South East Asia, 2nd ed. University of California Press, 1983.
• Li Tana (2011). Jiaozhi (Giao Chỉ) in the Han period Tongking Gulf. In Cooke, Nola ; Li Tana ; Anderson, James A. (eds.). The Tongking Gulf Through History. University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 39–44. ISBN 9780812205022.
• Li Tana, Towards an environmental history of the eastern Red River Delta, Vietnam, c.900–1400, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 2014.
• Samuel Baron, Christoforo Borri, Olga Dror, Keith W. Taylor (2018). Views of Seventeenth-Century Vietnam : Christoforo Borri on Cochinchina and Samuel Baron on Tonkin. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-1-501-72090-1.

External links

• Gò Vấp the dynamic heart of Hochiminh City (vi)