District 8, Ho Chi Minh City

District 8 Quận 8
Urban district
Position in HCMC's core
10°43′24″N 106°37′40″E / 10.72333°N 106.62778°E / 10.72333; 106.62778
Country	Vietnam
Centrally governed city	Ho Chi Minh City
Seat	4 Phạm Thế Hiển
Wards	16 phường
Area
• Total	19 km2 (7 sq mi)
Population  (2018)
• Total	451,290
• Density	24,000/km2 (62,000/sq mi)
Demographics
• Main ethnic groups	predominantly Kinh
Time zone	UTC+07 (ICT)
Website	quan8.hochiminhcity.gov.vn

District 8 (Vietnamese: Quận 8) is an urban district (quận) of Ho Chi Minh City, the largest city in Vietnam.

As of 2010, the district had a population of 418,961 and an area of 19 km² (7.3 sq mi).^[1] It is divided into 16 small subsets called wards (phường), numbered from Ward 1 to Ward 16.

Geographical location

District 8 borders District 5 and District 6 to the north, District 4 and District 7 to the east, Bình Chánh District to the south, and Bình Tân District to the west.

District 8 coordinate: 10.7241° N, 106.6286° E

The district has an area of 19.11 km², the population in 2019 was 424,667 people, the population density reached 22,222 people/km².

District 8 has an elongated shape in the Northeast-Southwest direction and is strongly divided by an intricate system of canals.

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Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)

Municipal city

• City of Thủ Đức
  • District 2
  • District 9
  • Thủ Đức

Urban districts

• Bình Tân
• Bình Thạnh
• District 1
• District 3
• District 4
• District 5
• District 6
• District 7
• District 8
• District 10
• District 11
• District 12
• Gò Vấp
• Phú Nhuận
• Tân Bình
• Tân Phú

Rural districts

• Bình Chánh
• Cần Giờ
• Củ Chi
• Hóc Môn
• Nhà Bè

Others

• List of districtual name etymologies

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