Bà Điểm (Vietnamese: ) is a commune of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It is one of the 168 new wards, communes and special zones of the city following the reorganization in 2025.
History 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 Bà Điểm, Trung Chánh and Xuân Thới Thượng communes of the former Hóc Môn district will be integrated into a new commune named Bà Điểm (Clause 133, Article 1).
Notable people
Phan Văn Hớn (1830–1886), Vietnamese farmer and activistErik Harms Saigon's Edge: On the Margins of Ho Chi Minh City 2011 – Page 29 "In history books, Hóc Môn's Bà Điểm commune is famous for the failed anti-French uprising led by Phan Văn Hớn and Nguyễn Văn Quá in February 1885. The name of the uprising, Uprising of the Eighteen Areca Garden Villages, indicates that this was a rural zone known mostly for its production of areca nuts and betel leaf and,"
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