Vietnam Health Facilities: OpenStreetMap Data with Specialty Tags

Vietnam health facility locations extracted from OpenStreetMap by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) as of March 2026. The data covers points and polygons tagged as hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, and doctors across the country.

Use Cases

• Analyzing medical service distribution using the healthcare:speciality and amenity columns
• Estimating regional healthcare capacity via the capacity:persons attribute
• Geocoding and navigation tasks using addr:full and addr:city fields

Strengths

• Multi-language support with name:en and name:vi tags
• Includes specialized metadata like healthcare:speciality and operator:type
• Available in four GIS-ready formats including SHP and GeoJSON

Limitations

• Crowdsourced nature leads to potential attribute sparsity in fields like capacity:persons
• Geographic bias towards areas with active OSM mapping communities

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap contributors via Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

Crowdsourced geospatial tagging and community mapping

Freshness

Updated March 2026.

Geography

Vietnam