Hàm Nghi Boulevard

Hàm Nghi Boulevard (Vietnamese: Đường Hàm Nghi) is an east–west boulevard in District 1, downtown Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

[1] The boulevard stretches from Tôn Đức Thắng Boulevard (Bạch Đằng Quay, Saigon River waterfront) to the Quách Thị Trang Square (in front of the Bến Thành Market).

[2] The boulevard was originally a waterway known in Vietnamese as rạch Cầu Sấu (translating to "Crocodile Bridge creek").

The waterway was later filled in and then by a decree dated 14 May 1877, the two streets were given a single name: boulevard de Canton.

Then again on 22 April 1920, after the relocation of the railway terminus to the area occupied today by September 23 Park, the municipal council decided to resume the name "boulevard" for the streets, and the name boulevard de la Somme was chosen, after the Battle of the Somme, one of the First World War's deadliest battles.