Little Saigon is a name given to ethnic enclaves of expatriate Vietnamese mainly in English-speaking countries. Alternate names include Little Vietnam and Little Hanoi, depending on the enclave's political history. To avoid political undertones due to the renaming of Saigon to Ho Chi Minh City, it is occasionally called by the neutral name Vietnamtown. Saigon is the former name of the capital of the former South Vietnam, where a large number of first-generation Vietnamese immigrants emigrating to the United States originate from, whereas Hanoi is the current capital of Vietnam.
Asian Garden Mall facade in Westminster
Phước Lộc Thọ, known in English as Asian Garden Mall, the first Vietnamese-American business center in Little Saigon, Orange County
Tết Festival in Little Saigon, Orange County, California
Vietnamese Heritage flag displayed along El Cajon Boulevard in San Diego (April 2010), commemorating the fall of Saigon and the arrival of Vietnamese refugees to the US.
Overseas Vietnamese refers to Vietnamese people who live outside Vietnam. There are approximately 5 million overseas Vietnamese, the largest community of whom live in the United States.
Congregation of the Mother Coredemptrix in Carthage, Missouri
The Temple du Souvenir Indochinois in the Bois de Vincennes, erected in 1907, is a monument built by the earliest waves of Vietnamese migrants to France.
Vietnamese refugee in 1990 in Boy Scouts, Palawan, Philippines
Vietnamese refugees arriving at Ben-Gurion International Airport, In Israel