NorthwestTây Bắc Bộ
Everything published in this region: the provincial units, the destinations inside them, and the sights, routes and dishes tied to them.
Places
Province
Dien BienĐiện Biên
One of Vietnam's 34 provincial-level units, unchanged by the 2025 reorganisation.
Province
Lai ChauLai Châu
One of Vietnam's 34 provincial-level units, unchanged by the 2025 reorganisation.
Province
Lao CaiLào Cai
One of Vietnam's 34 provincial-level units, enlarged on 1 July 2025.
Province
Son LaSơn La
One of Vietnam's 34 provincial-level units, unchanged by the 2025 reorganisation.
former unit
Yen BaiYên Bái
A province of Vietnam until 1 July 2025, when it was merged into Lao Cai.
Destination
Bac HaBắc Hà
Sunday hill-tribe market, Flower Hmong
Destination
Dien Bien PhuĐiện Biên Phủ
1954 battlefield that ended French Indochina
Destination
Moc ChauMộc Châu
Tea hills, plum and mustard blossom, dairy plateau
Destination
SapaSa Pa
Rice-terrace trekking, Hmong and Dao villages, Fansipan
Destination
Y TyY Tý
Cloud-hunting, Ha Nhi villages, terraces near the Chinese border
former unit
Lào Cai
Border city in northwest Vietnam, formerly a provincial city and now part of the merged Lào…
former unit
Yên Bái
Former provincial city on the Red River in Vietnam's northwest, now administered under the…
Picture credits
- Mường Lay skyline — [Tycho] , http://shansov.net, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Lai Châu Province road construction — [Tycho] talk , http://shansov.net, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Coc Leu Bridge 3 — Binh Giang, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Sơn La Province — [Tycho] , http://shansov.net, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Trạm Tấu, Yên Bái road — Viethavvh, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Mèo Hoàng A Tưởng — Thai Nhai, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- The Victory Monument of Dien Bien Phu (front) v2 — Ioe2015, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Nha san Moc Chau — Viethavvh at vi.wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Milkshake and cake, Sapa Paradise View Hotel, Sa Pa, Vietnam - 20131027 — Smuconlaw, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kiếm Anh, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- 源義信, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Một góc TP.Yên Bái — vi:User:ASM~viwiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons