District 12, Ho Chi Minh City
District 12 is an urban district (quận) of Ho Chi Minh City, the largest and third most populous city in Vietnam.
As of 2010, the district had a population of 427,083. The district covers an area of. The district is divided into 11 small subsets which are called wards.
District 12 borders city of Thuận An, Bình Dương Province and the city of Thủ Đức to the east by Saigon River, Hóc Môn District to the west by National Route 22 and north by Nguyễn Ảnh Thủ street with National Route 1, the districts of Bình Thạnh, Gò Vấp, Tân Bình, Tân Phú and Bình Tân to the south by Tham Lương – Bến Cát – Vàm Thuật River.
Administration
The district consists of 10 wards:- An Phú Đông
- Đông Hưng Thuận
- Hiệp Thành
- Tân Chánh Hiệp
- Tân Thới Hiệp
- Tân Thới Nhất
- Thạnh Lộc
- Thạnh Xuân
- Thới An
- Trung Mỹ Tây
Quang Trung Software City
The goal of the city is to offer a living and workplace to people who are particularly interested in software development as an economic incentive system to spur the growth of the software industry in Vietnam. It is sponsored by the Japan External Trade Organization and United States Agency for International Development.The Vietnamese government has arranged for high speed internet to be wired to the area. The city opened in 2001 and housed 20,000 people in 2010.