Lê Lợi Boulevard () is a boulevard in District 1, downtown Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The boulevard stretches from ÃÂá»Âng Khá»Âi Street, right across from Lam Sán Square (in front of the Municipal Theatre of Ho Chi Minh City) to the Quách Thá» Trang Square (in front of the Bến Thành Market) and directly connects to Trần Hðng ÃÂạo Boulevard to go to Chợ Lá»Ân.
The Ho Chi Minh City Metro Line 1 runs underneath the boulevard across the Bến Thành station and Opera House station.
The history of the boulevard dates back to the 1860s, following the French takeover of Saigon. They ordered the digging of a 800-metre canal with two drainages, the Saigon River (near the Marine barracks) and the arroyo Chinois. One of its main goals was to drain the lower part of Saigon, which was then a pestilential swamp. This waterway was crossed perpendicularly by the "Grand Canal", which later became the Charner Boulevard.
The canal was eventually filled in to create an artery known as "rue nð 13", later changed to boulevard Bonard. The exact time when the canal was filled in is unknown, but it was estimated to be between 1870 and 1880. Initially, the Bonard Boulevard ended at Mac Mahon Street (present-day Nam Kỳ Khá»Âi Nghéa Street), and it was not until 1914 that the boulevard was extended to the Central Market.
In 1955, the boulevard was renamed Lê Lợi Boulevard by the government of South Vietnam<nowiki/>after the King Lê Lợi of the Later Lê Dynasty and the Place Augustin Foray where the northeast end of boulevard also renamed as Lam Sán Square (the park in the middle of the square was named Lê Lợi Park in the Republic of Vietnam time then Lam Sán Park in current) to tribute his leadership in the Lam Sán uprising.