Can Gio Tourist City is a proposed new urban area in Can Gio district of Ho Chi Minh City. The project is also known as Can Gio Resort Town and Can Gio sea encroachment tourism and urban area project.
The proposed project will cover 2,870 hectares on existing Can Gio coastline and reclaimed land, and the new city will house a population of more than 228,000 people. The lead developer is Vingroup.
Can Gio is the largest district in Ho Chi Minh City and also the least populated. The district is characterised by its waterways and mangrove forest, and it referred to as Saigon’s green lung. Can Gio is the first UNESCO mangrove biosphere reserve in Vietnam.
Can Gio maps
The project is in Long Hoa Commune and Can Thanh Town, Can Gio District, Ho Chi Minh City. The area includes the entire southern seafront coast of Can Gio.
[Map of Can Gio Tourist City and Can Gio District.]
[Can Gio Tourist City Map by earthjournalism.net.]
[Cần Giờ district shown in relation to the rest of Ho Chi Minh City.]
Can Gio Tourist City subdivisions
The project has five subdivisions: A, B, C, D, E.
Subdivision A
Subdivision A will have an area of 954 hectares. This amusement area includes a theme park, golf course, resorts, theatre, and commercial area.
[Can Gio Theme Park.]
[Can Gio Theatre facing the lagoon.]
Subdivision B
Subdivision B is a 659-hectare area for cultural and sports and it will include a stadium complex.The area includes parking lots, hospitals, schools, offices and hotels.
[Can Gio Stadium.]
[Hospital in Can Gio.]
Subdivisions C and D
Subdivisions C and D has an area of 798 hectares, include sports yards, city square, schools and commercial buildings. Subdivision C includes an artificial cape with a 108-storey skyscraper.
[Hai Dang Cape with a 108-storey skyscraper, Subdivision C.]
[Beach in Subdivision D.]
[Seaside square in Subdivision D.]
[A main road connecting Subdivisions A, B, C, D.]
Subdivision E
Subdivision E covers 457 hectares of land that will include an artificial beach and canals.
[Bridge in Subdivision E connecting Hai Dang Cape in Subdivision C.]
Transport
The Can Gio coast is about 55 km from Ben Thanh Market. It takes approximately 1 h 45 m to get there by car. There is no bridge that links Can Gio to any other district in HCMC, so the trip includes a ferry crossing.
Can Gio Bridge will connect Nha Be District to Can Gio District. This will replace the Binh Khanh Ferry.
The ferry from Bach Dang Wharf in District 1 to Vung Tau goes via Can Gio.
The Ben Luc-Long Thanh Expressway is a new road that will connect the Mekong Delta to Dong Nai Province via Can Gio. This project has stalled, and the Phuoc Khanh Bridge and Binh Khanh Bridge stand unfinished.
A 17km sea bridge has been proposed to connect Can Gio and Vung Tau. That would be among the longest bridges in Southeast Asia.. Another report mentions an alternative proposal of a 25-kilometre undersea tunnel between Can Gio and Vung Tau.
A proposed helicopter charter service between District 1 and Can Gio.
There is no plan for a railway or metro extension to Can Gio. The metro authority have not included Can Gio in any future proposals. The nearest metro station would be Nha Be at the southern terminus of Line 4. This line has no timeline for construction to begin.
[Can Thanh and Long Hoa interchange.]
News archive
2025
Vingroup aims to launch $8.5bn Can Gio reclaimed coastal urban project before April 30 – [18/03/25]
Ho Chi Minh City plans to develop Can Gio into national tourism area – [17/03/25]
“The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism has announced the implementation of its tourism development plan until 2030, featuring the Can Gio development project and the transformation of the Saigon River corridor into a national tourism area.”
Vingroup eyes start of $9B HCMC sea reclamation project by April – [09/03/25]
“Vietnam’s biggest private company Vingroup has sought permission to break ground on the Can Gio Sea Reclamation Urban Development project by April.”
2023
Turning HCMC’s Can Gio into resort town is ambitious – [23/05/23]
“Instead of turning HCMC’s coastal Can Gio District into a resort town, readers said, money should be used to finish ongoing projects and fix problems at other resort towns.”
How Can Gio will turn into a seaside resort town – [19/05/23]
“Can Gio resort town is set to become an entertainment and tourism hub not just of Ho Chi Minh City but of Southeast Asia.”
$3B required for development of Can Gio seaside town – [17/05/23]
“The town will cover 2,870 hectares and house a population of more than 228,000, HCMC authorities said in a new detailed zoning plan with a scale of 1/5,000 for the town development.”
Can Gio urban area project needs over VND76 trillion for infrastructure – [17/05/23]
As livelihoods clash with development, Vietnam’s Cần Giờ mangroves are at risk – [28/02/23]
“VinGroup, a ubiquitous conglomerate known for building gated communities, mini-marts, schools and now marketing Vietnam-made cars internationally, has planned a sweeping tourism and residential resort along Cần Giờ’s coast since it bought rights to the land in 2007, under its subsidiary Cần Giờ Tourism Urban Area Joint Stock Company. As of 2016, VinGroup has a 97.16% controlling stake in the $1.5 billion project, dubbed Saigon Sunbay, which would be divided into four zones, with entertainment, hotels and residential housing, all catering to the “high-end” market. In February 2021, the government issued decisions zoning the resort, much of which appears will be built on land reclaimed from the sea.”
2022
HCM City’s Can Gio district to become high-quality ecotourism destination – [29/10/22]
“The Party Committee of Ho Chi Minh City has issued a resolution on development orientations for Can Gio by 2030 that aims to turn this coastal district into a high-quality resort and ecotourism city comparable with regional rivals.”
Can Gio poised to become seaside resort city – [19/10/22]
“The outlying district of Can Gio in HCMC is planned to become a seaside resort and eco-tourism city, with GDP per capita of VND182 million annually by 2030.”
“HCMC will invest heavily in traffic and logistics infrastructure facilities in this island district to boost the latter’s economic growth.”
HCMC confirms plan to transform Can Gio district into coastal resort town – [18/10/22]
“Ho Chi Minh City has issued a new resolution confirming that it will develop Can Gio district into a seaside eco-tourism town by 2030.”
Seaside Can Gio to become HCMC resort town – [18/10/22]
Investment projects face delay in Can Gio District – [23/09/22]
“Although several projects for Can Gio District have been approved by the Government, some investment projects are still facing delay due to necessary readjustment in planning.”
2020
HCM City to turn Can Gio into sustainable eco-urban area – [15/09/20]
“Ho Chi Minh City plans to turn Can Gio District into an ecological urban area as part of efforts to urbanise it and improve the quality of life for locals.”
Vietnam approves $9 billion development within mangrove reserve – [05/08/20]
“A $9.3 billion residential and tourism development has been approved within the buffer zone of the Can Gio Mangrove Biosphere Reserve here in this city of 13 million, Vietnam’s largest urban area. The project was proposed by the Can Gio Tourism Urban Area Joint Stock Company, a subsidiary of Vinhomes, the real estate arm of Vingroup, the country’s largest private company. The Can Gio Tourist City would span 2,870 hectares (7,100 acres), largely on land that would be filled in along the South China Sea coast using sand.”
Petition for the review and independent assessment of the Can Gio Tourist City project in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam – [01/07/20]
Vietnam speeds up big projects to heal economy from pandemic – [18/06/20]
“Vingroup’s project initially was announced in 2000, at a scale of 600 hectares, managed by Saigon Tourist unit Can Gio Tourist City. After acquiring a 97% stake in the unit during 2016, Vingroup proposed scaling up the project to 2,870 hectares and assigned its Vinhomes unit to participate in the development.”
Science be damned: Vietnam’s rush to help its largest conglomerate build a tourist city – [13/03/20]
“An ambitious plan to erect a tourist city off Vietnam’s south coast has hit opposition from experts, who fear the development on reclaimed land will do irreparable harm to a critical biosphere reserve and the Mekong Delta while exacerbating climate change risks to Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC).”
Vietnam’s massive ecotourism charade – [09/03/20]
“Just south of Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC)’s dense urban sprawl lies Can Gio, its only coastal district. Blanketed by dense forest (46 percent) and water (32 percent), the district is renowned for its biosphere reserve – the “green lung” that protects HCMC against air and water pollution and shields its citizens from storms and natural disasters.”
2019
Viet reclamation project near reserve raises concern – [23/12/19]
“Can Gio Tourist City, an upcoming 217 trillion dong (S$12.6 billion) project 70km from central Ho Chi Minh City, will boast luxury homes, a 108-storey skyscraper, a golf course and a cruise port if it is completed.”
2016
Vingroup subsidiary eyes $40.25 million Can Gio golf project – [02/12/16]
“Can Gio Tourist City, a Vingroup subsidiary, may be allowed to develop the Can Gio Golf Club project with the total capital of $40.25 million on the land area reclaimed from the sea in Ho Chi Minh City’s Can Gio district.”
2015
Vingroup to build urban zone in Can Gio – [25/06/15]
“Vingroup will invest in a coastal urban zone spanning more than 800ha in Can Gio District, southeast of HCM City, the municipal People’s Committee announced on June 23.”
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