SAIGON - 3D Timelapse (300 BC - Now) 4K

Saigon, from a village on a mangrove sand ridge in 300 BC to Ho Chi Minh City today, in one continuous 3D flight. 2,300 years in 7 minutes: up the Saigon River through Funan, Chenla and the Khmer Empire to Prey Nokor, the Gia Định citadel, the French city with its canals and boulevards, the wars of the 20th century, and the towers and new districts of today. Everything before the modern map is a reconstruction from historical maps and sources (the 1795 Dayot plan, the 1882 and 1898 cadastral plans and the 1923 plan of Saigon-Cholon). The modern city uses real building footprints and heights. Population figures before 1698 are estimates made for this video; from 1698 on they follow historical estimates and censuses. CHAPTERS 0:00 300 BC - Giồng Cá Vồ 0:10 50-550 - Funan and Chenla 0:24 802-1620 - The Khmer Empire and Prey Nokor 0:39 1623-1674 - The Tax Post and Sài Gòn 0:56 1698 - Gia Định 1:06 1772-1778 - The Bán Bích Rampart and Chợ Lớn 1:23 1782 - The Tây Sơn Wars 1:33 1790 - The Citadel 1:43 1833 - Lê Văn Khôi's Revolt 1:57 1836-1859 - The Phoenix Citadel and the French Take Saigon 2:19 1861 - Kỳ Hòa 2:29 1862-1873 - The Coffyn Plan and Norodom Palace 2:46 1880 - Notre-Dame 2:56 1881-1885 - The Steam Tram and the First Railway 3:12 1886-1891 - The Grand Canal and the Post Office 3:29 1911-1914 - Nhà Rồng and Bến Thành Market 3:46 1941-1944 - The Japanese Arrive and the Air Raids 4:04 1945 - The August Revolution 4:14 1945 - The French Return 4:28 1949-1954 - Refugee City and From the North 4:43 1955 - The Battle of Saigon 4:53 1962 - The Palace Bombed 5:03 1968 - Tết 5:17 1975 - The Fall of Saigon 5:31 1976 - Ho Chi Minh City 5:41 1979-1986 - The Boat People and Đổi Mới 5:58 1997-2010 - Saigon Trade Center and Bitexco Tower 6:13 2011-2018 - Thủ Thiêm and Landmark 81 6:32 2024-2025 - Metro Line 1 and the High Tide 6:49 2026 - Ho Chi Minh City 2026 DATA Buildings: Overture Maps Foundation (OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL - https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright; Google Open Buildings, CC BY 4.0; Microsoft Global ML Building Footprints, CDLA Permissive 2.0) Building heights: Google Open Buildings 2.5D Temporal, CC BY 4.0 Roads, water and green areas: OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL (Geofabrik extract) Built-up area 1975-2020: GHSL GHS-BUILT-S R2023A, European Commission Joint Research Centre, CC BY 4.0 Terrain: Terrain Tiles on AWS Open Data (Mapzen; NASA SRTM and other public elevation sources) - https://github.com/tilezen/joerd/blob... MAPS (public domain) Plan de la ville de Saigon, 1795 (Jean-Marie Dayot) Plan cadastral de la ville de Saigon, 1882 Plan cadastral de la ville de Saigon, 1898 Plan de Saigon-Cholon, 1923 Scans from the Flickr set "Map Sài Gòn Xưa", archived at https://archive.org/details/bn--saigo... Canal dates: Tim Doling, "The Lost Inner-City Waterways of Saigon and Cho Lon" - https://www.historicvietnam.com/lost-... MUSIC "Healing" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Wholesome" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Sovereign" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... SOUND EFFECTS (Wikimedia Commons, Freesound) "Oceanwavescrushing.ogg" by Luftrum - CC BY 3.0 - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... "WWS PrussianpassengersteamlocomotiveP-8.ogg" by Work With Sounds / Konrad Gutkowski - CC BY 4.0 - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... "WWS Steamwhistle.ogg" by Work With Sounds / Konrad Gutkowski - CC BY 4.0 - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... "WWS Watersmithyforgingwithtwohammers.ogg" by Work With Sounds / Museum of Municipal Engineering - CC BY 4.0 - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... "Tulipalo, talo palaa" by YleArkisto - CC BY 4.0 - https://freesound.org/people/YleArkis... "Gentle Waves Lots of Hungry Noisy Seagulls" by rayjensen - CC BY 4.0 - https://freesound.org/people/rayjense... Other sounds: public domain and CC0 recordings from Wikimedia Commons and Freesound; rumble from Pixabay; helicopter, propeller plane and drone sounds made for this video.