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Lào Cai

First-level unit, Viet Nam: people, area, the units inside and neighbours, with risk values when released.

Page GRX-VNM-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO VNM / VNStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
576,117
people (GHSL 2025)
6,532 km²
area
0.6%
of Viet Nam
9
units inside

01Map

Inside Lào Cai

The 9 ADM2 units of Lào Cai.

FIG 1 · 9 units inside Lào Cai
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1 ADM2Risk values when released
Lowest fifthLow fifthMiddle fifthHigh fifthHighest fifthNo data
Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values. Choose a humanitarian figure from the list to colour and raise the units by it; each figure shows its source on the unit page. Select a unit to drill into the units inside it; the path above the map climbs back.
02Figures

People, area and density

Source observations from open grids summed inside the boundary; not index values.

People · GHSL 2025

576,117

0.6% of Viet Nam.

People · WorldPop 2025

804,401

+40% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

பரப்பு

6,532 km²

88 people per km².

குறியீடு

VN-02

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

03Humanitarian data

Lào Cai in humanitarian data

Source observations from the Humanitarian Data Exchange, matched to this unit by name, each with its reference date, provider and licence. They are not index values.

Population · 2024-12-31

776,058

people. UNFPA · Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-IGO).

04Units

9 units inside Lào Cai

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Public Domain · Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)

Unit குறியீடு People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Bac Ha – 55,642 80,654 690.1 81 9.6% 0
Bao Thang – 96,244 121,514 683.48 141 16.6% 0
Bao Yen – 75,965 88,475 830.81 91 13.1% 0
Bat Xat – 69,631 104,796 1,058.83 66 12% 0
Lao Cai – 81,374 133,173 226.29 360 14% 0
Muong Khuong – 50,589 72,340 559.97 90 8.7% 0
Sa Pa – 50,676 70,142 683.82 74 8.7% 0
Si Ma Cai – 28,758 41,320 234.12 123 5% 0
Van Ban – 71,579 90,992 1,425.47 50 12.3% 0
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Open exposure layers

Count of H3 resolution-3 cells whose centre falls in the unit and that carry each Natural Earth layer.

Urban areas
None at this resolution
Ports
None at this resolution
Airports
None at this resolution
Major roads
548.5 H3 cells
Railways
134.1 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
134.7 H3 cells
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Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Lào Cai publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index. Until then, run a scenario on open data for Viet Nam.
07Neighbours

Neighbouring units

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Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen VNM ADM1, source: geoBoundaries, Wikipedia, licence: Public Domain · source · represents 2008
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen VNM ADM2, source: OCHA ROAP, Government of Viet Nam, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · source · represents 2020
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
நாடுகள்
Natural Earth (public domain).
Elevation
GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
Position
Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.