Nghe An is a province which has not only rich in material cultural products but also has an abundant in immaterial cultural products.These immaterial culture have human culture, traditional struggle for defending the country and conquering the natural calamity; having the abundant folk culture and deeply stamped with national character such as: Vi dam singing, phuong vai singing and ho, ve songs. The immaterial cultural products are much attracted travellers

The sixth ethnic groups in Nghe An: Thai, Kho Mu, Tho, H'Mong, O Du and Dan Lai Clan remained the excellent cultural products in the west of Nghe An region. At present there still remains some ancient Thai Villages. This is the tourism cultural product that attract tourists in the country as well as the international tourists.

Geography

Nghe An is a north central province of Vietnam. It is situated from the longitude 18^o33'10'' to 19^o24'43'' north, and from the latitude 103^o52'53'' to 105^o45'50'' east. Nghe An borders Thanh Hoa in the north with a 196,13km borderline. It borders  Ha Tinh to the south with a 92.6 km borderline. Laos to the west with a 419km frontier and faces the East Sea in the east with a 82km long-coastline. Nghe An covers a total area of 1,648,729 ha.

Topography

Nghe An Province lies on the north east of Truong Son Mountain Range. The topography is complicated and separated by the mountains and hills, rivers and streams with the descending slope from the north - west to the south-east. The most highest peak is Pulaileng (2,711m high) in Ky Son District, the lower is the plains of Quynh Luu, Dien Chau, Yen Thanh districts. At these places Quynh Thanh Commune in Quynh Luu District is only 0.2m high above the sea level. The mountains and hills occupy 83% area of the natural land of the province.

The system of rivers is dense. The total length of the running rivers and streams are 9,828km, with the average density is 0.7km/sqkm. The biggest river is Ca (Lam) originates from Muong Pec District in Xieng Khoang (Laos) with 532km long. The coastline is 82km with 6 watercourse- mouths which are convenient for sea transportation, and developing sea port: Cua Lo Sea Port.

Climate

Nghe An lies in the tropics and temperate zone, and is influenced directly by hot and dry of wind (from April to August) and cold north east wind (from November to the March next year).