Where does “Hô-Chi-Minh-Ville” come from?

Hô-Chi-Minh-Ville (French) comes from Vietnamese Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, from Vietnamese Hồ Chí Minh — Hồ Chí Minh, the founder and first president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.

Ancestry of “Hô-Chi-Minh-Ville”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1VietnameseThành phố Hồ Chí Minh
2VietnameseHồ Chí MinhHồ Chí Minh, the founder and first president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
Every word from Vietnamese Hồ Chí MinhEvery word from Vietnamese Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh