New Eastern Bus Terminus (

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: ''Bến xe Miền Đông mới'') is the largest bus station in

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, located in the border of

Thủ Đức Thủ Đức ʰu˨˩˦:ɗɨk˧˥is a sub-municipality in Ho Chi Minh City of the Southestern region of Vietnam. History The oldest name what was recorded in this area was Ngãi An (義安), a district-level administrative unit has existed sin ...

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and

Dĩ An Dĩ An is a Provincial city (Vietnam), city of Bình Dương Province in the Southeast (Vietnam), Southeast region of Vietnam, about 20 km north of central Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon). It is 1,706 km by rail from Hanoi. At the 2 ...

, Bình Dương Province. The station opened in April 2020, and is aimed at reducing congestion at the Eastern Bus Station in

Bình Thạnh District Bình Thạnh is a district of Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. , the district had a population of 490,618 and a total area of 21 km2. The name of the district was formed from the names of two wards in the old Gò Vấp district, Bình Hòa and ...

. During the first three months, the old station would remain open and the new station was only used by long distance routes of over 1,100 km. In March 2021, VnExpress reported that in one week, just 360 passengers used the station.{{Cite web , title=Vietnam's largest bus terminal struggles to shift gears , url=https://e.vnexpress.net/news/news/vietnam-s-largest-bus-terminal-struggles-to-shift-gears-4254615.html , access-date=2021-05-12 , website=VnExpress International , language=en On an average day, only 20 buses departed from the station. The 17 km distance from the old bus station near the city center, combined with lacking connections to the station, led passengers to avoid the new station. The adjacent

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was opened in 2024, in front of the gate of the terminus, connects it with the

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and later will connect with the adjacent provinces like Bình Dương and Đồng Nai.

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