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Almost everything comes off one volcanic plateau in the far south.
Production figures are for the 2025/26 crop year.
Lao coffee is the Bolaven Plateau. The basalt highland where Champasak, Sekong, Attapeu and Salavan provinces meet accounts for the overwhelming majority of national production, at altitudes between roughly 800 and 1,300 metres, on deep volcanic soil with reliable rainfall. A much smaller and newer Arabica sector exists in the northern provinces of Phongsaly and Houaphanh.
By volume the country is a Robusta producer, and much of that goes to Vietnamese and Thai processors. The Arabica share is small but growing, and the plateau's older Typica and Bourbon plantings — French colonial introductions — have become the basis for a specialty sector that cooperatives and a handful of exporters have built since the 2000s. Being landlocked, everything ships overland through Thailand or Vietnam.
Shaded provinces contain growing areas; the crop covers only part of each.
The volcanic highland in the far south — almost the entire national crop.
Phongsaly and Houaphanh — a small, newer Arabica sector near the Chinese border.
Bolaven Arabica is smooth and chocolatey with a heavy body and low acidity, often with a floral or herbal top note on the older Typica plantings. The washed lots from the higher plateau are cleaner and sweeter, running to caramel and stone fruit. Lao Robusta is dense and earthy and mostly moves as a commodity.
The French planted coffee on the Bolaven Plateau in the 1920s, and frost and war repeatedly set the sector back through the mid-century. Replanting after 1975 favoured Robusta and Catimor for hardiness. Specialty interest in the surviving Typica and in newer high-altitude plantings dates from the 2000s.
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Growing-region markers indicate an area. They are not surveyed farm locations and should not be read as any.