No origin matches that.
The world's second-largest producer, and the one that made Robusta a commodity at scale.
Production figures are for the 2025/26 crop year.
Vietnam is the anomaly in most specialty coffee writing: enormous, almost entirely Robusta, and usually discussed in terms of tonnage rather than flavour. It is worth understanding on its own terms. Production expanded dramatically from the late 1980s onward, and the resulting supply reshaped world prices — an effect no other origin has had in living memory.
The picture is not static. Arabica is a small share of the total but a real one, grown in the far north and in the highlands around Đà Lạt, and there is a growing domestic specialty scene working on fine Robusta — a category the rest of the industry has largely declined to take seriously.
Shaded provinces contain growing areas; the crop covers only part of each.
Đắk Lắk, Gia Lai and Kon Tum — the bulk of national production, almost all Robusta.
The Đà Lạt highlands, and the country's best-known Arabica growing area.
The high plateau around the city — Vietnam's best-known Arabica.
Lower and warmer than Đà Lạt, and largely Robusta.
Sơn La and Điện Biên, in the far north — small, high and entirely Arabica.
Commodity Robusta is heavy, low in acidity, and woody or grainy, which is why it is usually blended rather than sold alone. Carefully grown and processed Robusta is a different drink: dark chocolate, nuts and a thick body, with the bitterness under control. The highland Arabica is softer, closer to a mild washed Central American.
Coffee arrived with French colonists in the nineteenth century but stayed small for a long time. The expansion that made Vietnam a top-two producer is recent and rapid, driven by post-1986 economic reform and by planting in the Central Highlands.
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Growing-region markers indicate an area. They are not surveyed farm locations and should not be read as any.