Tân Sơn Nhất

Tân Sơn Nhất ward located in the urban core of Ho Chi Minh City, 6 km to the Northwest of Saigon, it is adjacent to:

• Tân Sơn Hòa to the Northeast mainly by routes of Trường Sơn – Trần Quốc Hoàn – Hoàng Văn Thụ and Nhiêu Lộc – Thị Nghè Channel
• Tân Sơn to the North
• Tân Hòa to the South by routes of Lý Thường Kiệt – Trần Triệu Luật – Bến Cát – Nghĩa Phát
• Phú Nhuận and Nhiêu Lộc to the East by Nhieu Loc–Thi Nghe Channel and Alley 686 Cách Mạng Tháng Tám
• Bảy Hiền to the West by streets of Trường Chinh – Xuân Hồng – Xuân Diệu – Nguyễn Thái Bình and Alley 18A Cộng Hòa.

According to Official Dispatch No. 2896/BNV-CQĐP dated May 27, 2025 of the Ministry of Home Affairs, following the merger, Tân Sơn Nhất has a land area of 3.19 km², the population as of December 31, 2024 is 84,639 people, the population density is 26,532 people/km².^[2][6]

On June 16, 2025, the National Assembly Standing Committee issued Resolution No. 1685/NQ-UBTVQH15 on the arrangement of commune-level administrative units of Ho Chi Minh City in 2025 (effective from June 16, 2025). Accordingly, the entire land area and population of Ward 4, Ward 5 and Ward 7 of the former Tân Bình district will be integrated into a new ward named Tân Sơn Nhất (Clause 57, Article 1).^[7]

The name Tân Sơn Nhất or previously Tân Sơn Nhứt is came from an old village initially known as Tân Sơn, it was split into two and named as Tân Sơn Nhứt (the first), and Tân Sơn Nhì (the second, in former Tân Phú district, Ho Chi Minh City), on a high hill that is generally known as Gò Vấp. The Tân Sơn Nhứt village was mostly occupied to build the Tan Son Nhut Air Base then Tan Son Nhat International Airport in the French Indochina period, first 1900s. After the occupation, the Tân Sơn Nhứt village remain area was so small, it was merged into the adjacent village Chí Hòa to be Tân Sơn Hòa.