Vietnam transport map

What the map shows

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Long journeys along the coast, such as Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City, are not drawn end to end: the railway shows that corridor.

Border crossings on the map

Every gate in the table is on Vietnam's e-visa list, which Resolution 389/NQ-CP of 2 December 2025 brought to 83 gates, so the e-visa covers your entry into Vietnam at all of them. What decides most trips is the other side:

• China. The 240-hour visa-free transit does not apply at any crossing from Vietnam: you need a Chinese visa or a passport that qualifies for the 30-day exemption. See the Vietnam–China border guide.
• Laos. None of these gates is on the Lao e-visa portal's list of entry ports, and Laos's register shows a visa on arrival only at Dansavanh, opposite Lao Bảo. The lines into Laos follow the crossing each bus uses on LaosBusTickets' checked routes; the Vietnam–Laos border guide has the buses, and LaosBusTickets' Laos transport map shows the Lao side.
• Cambodia. Bavet, opposite Mộc Bài, is the only crossing from Vietnam that takes Cambodia's e-visa. See the Vietnam–Cambodia border guide.

For Vietnam's own visa rules, exemptions and the e-visa itself, see the Vietnam visa guide.

Using and sharing the map

The lines show which crossing a route uses, not the road, so use the map to plan the order of a trip and the route pages for times and fares. Tap the map to open it full size; on a phone you can then pinch to zoom.

The map is free to share and embed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence; please credit VietnamTransportGuide.com and link to this page.

Download the data

The crossings and lines on the map are available as data, for anyone who wants to reuse or check them:

• Border crossings as JSON and as CSV: position, what the other side accepts, check date and sources for each crossing.
• The whole map as GeoJSON: crossings, airports, piers, stations, towns, connections and the railway.
• The map itself, in portrait and landscape.

Positions come from OpenStreetMap, so the data files are under the Open Database License: credit "© OpenStreetMap contributors" and VietnamTransportGuide.com.

How this map is made and kept current

• Places. Each town is its OpenStreetMap place, or after Vietnam's 2025 ward mergers its ward centroid, checked against Wikidata. Stations, airports, piers and border posts are OpenStreetMap objects; the Laos gates use the positions LaosBusTickets verified, and every border post was viewed on satellite imagery. Borders, coast and rivers are from Natural Earth.
• Lines. A line is drawn only for a connection that a page on this site states. The map is regenerated from the same data whenever the site is updated, and the weekly check re-reads the border and visa sources.
• Changes. 16 October 2026: map published, with 19 crossings, 9 airports, 4 railway lines and 20 connections. Later the same day: lines into Laos, the Châu Đốc–Phnom Penh boat, Lào Cai–Hekou and Móng Cái–Nanning added, and the five crossings with no public transport across marked (33 connections in all).