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The Vietnam Origin Atlas

Products come from places. Explore the Vietnamese provinces tied by evidence to the products documented on VietnameseOrigins.

Every marked origin is backed by a source: 11 provinces, 3 products, 3 full region guides.

Map of Vietnam: 11 provinces linked by evidence to cinnamon, star anise, cashew
Provinces as they were before the July 2025 merger (geoBoundaries). Hoàng Sa (the Paracel Islands) is drawn in its true position; Trường Sa (the Spratly Islands) lies further south-east, beyond the frame, and appears in a schematic inset that is not to position or scale.

Origin atlas

Select a province

Sourced origins
11
Documented products
3
Full region guides
3

Choose a marked province on the map, or “Show on map” in the province index below, to see what grows there and the evidence for it.

  • Cinnamon7 provinces
  • Star anise4 provinces
  • Cashew1 province
  • Stripes: more than one product

Province index

Every origin on the map, north to south, with the evidence for each link.

  1. Yên Bái

    Today: Merged into Lào Cai province on 1 July 2025. Geographical indications and most sources still use the name Yên Bái.

    Read the Yên Bái origin guide →

  2. Lào Cai

    Today: Since 1 July 2025 the province also includes former Yên Bái.

  3. Lạng Sơn

    Read the Lạng Sơn origin guide →

  4. Cao Bằng

  5. Bắc Kạn

    Today: Merged into Thái Nguyên province on 1 July 2025.

  6. Quảng Ninh

  7. Thanh Hoá

  8. Nghệ An

  9. Quảng Nam

    Today: Merged into Đà Nẵng city on 1 July 2025. The geographical indication keeps the name Trà My.

    Read the Quảng Nam origin guide →

  10. Quảng Ngãi

    Today: Since 1 July 2025 the province also includes former Kon Tum.

  11. Bình Phước

    Today: Merged into Đồng Nai province on 1 July 2025. Sources and the geographical indication use the name Bình Phước.

Region guides

Places with a full guide

A province gets its own page when the sources say enough about it to fill one without padding.

  1. A wide, calm river winding between green hills, with sandbanks and scrub in the foreground and partly cleared hillsides on the right bank
    User:Vmenkov · CC BY-SA 3.0

    Yên Bái

    Cinnamon

    A northern mountain province whose Văn Yên district gave its name to a protected cinnamon.

    Merged into Lào Cai province on 1 July 2025. Geographical indications and most sources still use the name Yên Bái.

    Read the Yên Bái origin guide →
  2. Ripening rice fields and scattered houses in a valley below a row of steep, forested limestone hills under dark clouds
    Hứa Chí Thân · CC BY-SA 4.0

    Lạng Sơn

    Star anise

    The border province where most of Vietnam’s star anise grows.

    Read the Lạng Sơn origin guide →
  3. A piece of dried cinnamon bark curled into a double roll on a wooden table, its cut end showing one thick layer of bark
    Phó Nháy · CC BY-SA 4.0

    Quảng Nam

    Cinnamon

    Central province whose Trà My districts are a protected cinnamon origin.

    Merged into Đà Nẵng city on 1 July 2025. The geographical indication keeps the name Trà My.

    Read the Quảng Nam origin guide →

Why origin matters

The same product can differ from one place to another. Climate, elevation and soil vary across Vietnam’s provinces, and so can the planting material growers use and the way they harvest and process the crop. Our sources do not measure those effects for every origin, so this atlas makes a narrower claim.

It records where evidence ties a product to a province: a seed-source area named in national guidance, a geographical indication, or official production figures. Each link names its source. To go further, explore Vietnamese cinnamon, explore Vietnamese star anise or explore Vietnamese cashew, see how each product is processed, or read how we weigh sources.

By area

Origins from north to south

North6 origins
Centre4 origins
South1 origin

Image credits

  1. “Rừng quế, lát, luồng tại bản Phe” by Hà Nghĩa VN, via Wikimedia Commons, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped (a person at the right edge removed) and resized; converted to WebP.
  2. “Curtis's botanical magazine. (IA mobot31753002721899).pdf, page 101” by M.S. (Matilda Smith), del.; C.H. Fitch, lith.; Curtis’s Botanical Magazine vol. 114, L. Reeve & Co., London, via Wikimedia Commons, licensed Public domain. Page 101 of the scanned volume extracted; resized; converted to WebP.
  3. “Vườn Điều trổ bông ở Bình Phước” by Windrain, via Wikimedia Commons, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized; converted to WebP.
  4. “Van Yen District - Hwy DT163 - P1380765” by User:Vmenkov, via Wikimedia Commons, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0. Cropped and resized; converted to WebP.
  5. “Thị trấn Bình Gia” by Hứa Chí Thân, via Wikimedia Commons, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped and resized; converted to WebP.
  6. “Vietnam cinnamon tree bark” by Phó Nháy, via Wikimedia Commons, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped (protractor removed) and resized; converted to WebP.
  7. “Scenery around Bac Ha - Lao Cai Province - Vietnam - 01 (48203332771)” by Adam Jones from Kelowna, BC, Canada, via Wikimedia Commons, licensed CC BY-SA 2.0. Cropped and resized; converted to WebP.
  8. “Trùng Khánh District, Cao Bang, Vietnam - panoramio” by kimjongdae, via Wikimedia Commons, licensed CC BY 3.0. Cropped and resized; converted to WebP.
  9. “Scenery at Ba Be Lake - Ba Be National Park - Vietnam - 01 (48102368637)” by Adam Jones from Kelowna, BC, Canada, via Wikimedia Commons, licensed CC BY-SA 2.0. Cropped and resized; converted to WebP.
  10. “Tien Yen River” by Phó Nháy, via Wikimedia Commons, licensed Public domain. Cropped and resized; converted to WebP.
  11. “Phong cảnh nông thôn ở Bình Chuẩn, Con Cuông, Nghệ An” by KoheiU, via Wikimedia Commons, licensed CC0. Cropped and resized; converted to WebP.
  12. “Sông Trà Bồng, đoạn qua Bình Sơn, Quảng Ngãi” by Nguyễn Đông Sơn at Vietnamese Wikipedia, via Wikimedia Commons, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0. Cropped and resized; converted to WebP.