The most detailed map of urban Saigon and Chợ Lớn of its period: 384 named streets at 1:10,000, and the eight districts created that March.
The plan names 384 boulevards, streets, quays, lanes and squares with 156 keyed locations. The districts are those of decree 110-NV of 27 March 1959, a division far closer to today's than the one of 1952 and the basis for the districts that followed; the eight were subdivided into 41 wards soon after. The satellite quarters of Phú Nhuận, Bình Hòa, Thị Nghè and Thủ Thiêm are visibly taking shape, while District 4 is still largely fields and canals.
Published by Nha Địa-Dư Quốc-Gia as the second edition: revised in 1956 from French Geographic Institute aerial photography flown in 1953 at 1:15,000, with survey additions inside the city in 1957, and reissued in 1959. Summarised from the caption at Trung tâm Lưu trữ quốc gia II, nac2.gov.vn/csdl/bando/38.html, and from the Virtual Saigon record (ID 855, IAO Map Collection).
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https://allmaps.xyz/{z}/{x}/{y}.png?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftrioykjhhwrruwjsklfo.supabase.co%2Fstorage%2Fv1%2Fobject%2Fpublic%2Fannotations%2F34d4edb2-f7df-4c47-a65a-f6b471400396.jsonPlaces named on this sheet
- Khánh Hội
- Xóm Chiếu
- Sông Sài Gòn
- Kinh Bến Nghé
- Ngô Tùng Châu
- Rạch Bà Cả
- Bến Thương Khẩu
- Xóm Thủ Thiêm
- Công Trường Mê Linh
- Đường Phan Tôn
- Kinh Tễ
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- Year
- 1959
- Original title
- Đô-thành Sài Gòn
- Publisher
- Nha Địa-Dư Quốc-Gia
- Held by
- Virtual Saigon (IRD)
- Rights
- Public domain
- Collection
- Vietnam Map Archive
- Place
- Saigon-HCMC
- Type
- plan
- Format
- 105 × 73 cm, paper original; scanned as TIFF at 600 dpi.
- Subject
- Saigon; Sài Gòn