Vietnam Education Facilities: Geospatial Data with Multilingual Labels

This geospatial dataset maps educational facilities across Vietnam, including kindergartens, schools, colleges, and universities, as exported from OpenStreetMap. Maintained by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT), the data provides point and polygon features last updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Spatial distribution analysis of higher education using 'university' and 'college' tags in the 'amenity' column
• Urban infrastructure planning by filtering 'building' types against 'addr:city' locations
• Administrative reporting on educational management using the 'operator:type' field

Strengths

• Includes four distinct facility types: kindergarten, school, college, and university
• Provides multilingual support via 'name:vi' and 'name:en' columns
• Available in four GIS-ready formats: SHP, GeoJSON, GeoPackage, and KML

Limitations

• Data completeness is subject to volunteer activity, which may result in geographic bias toward major cities
• The 'capacity:persons' field is frequently null in crowdsourced exports

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap contributors via Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

Crowdsourced geospatial data exported via the HOT HDX pipeline

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026.

Geography

Vietnam