Community suitability of Ba Ria-Vung Tau, Viet Nam
Moderately suitable confidence B · live score 61
75
best land · p90
76%
good land
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one block
How each domain holds up
Legal & sovereignty 51
Governance, safety & tenure 52
Economy & cost 92
Society, freedom & health 82
Land & water 67
Climate, growing & hazards 71
Autonomy & access 67
Where it pushes back
Water availability & qualityGrowing conditionsLegal entity & land framework
Within Ba Ria-Vung Tau — 7 sub-regions
Estimated finer-grained reads from the same open data. Phase-1, not yet verified.
Xuyen Moc
strongest Economy & cost (92) ·
weakest Legal & sovereignty (51)
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Moderately suitable 66
Chau Duc
strongest Economy & cost (92) ·
weakest Autonomy & access (44)
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Marginally suitable 58
Marginally suitable 56
Marginally suitable 55
Vung Tau City
strongest Economy & cost (92) ·
weakest Autonomy & access (33)
pushes back: Land cover & degradation
Marginally suitable 53
Ba Ria Township
pushes back: Accessibility
Marginally suitable 53
Con Dao
pushes back: Land cover & degradation
Marginally suitable 47
Reading the land, criterion by criterion
Each signal names the open dataset behind it and how measured it is.
Legal entity & land frameworkcountry B OECD FDI RRI + manual
Education & schooling freedomcountry B HSLDA + UNESCO UIS
Seed & agricultural autonomycountry C UPOV membership proxy
Governance & corruptioncountry A World Bank WGI + Transparency CPI
Land tenure securitycountry A IPRI (de jure) + Prindex (de facto)
Business & economic viabilitycountry A World Bank B-READY, Heritage, Fraser
Cost of living, labour & landcountry A World Bank PPP, ILOSTAT
Monetary & capital sovereigntycountry A IMF/World Bank, Chinn-Ito
Personal freedomcountry A Cato/Fraser Human Freedom Index
Healthcare qualitycountry B WHO GHO
Disease / vector burden A Malaria Atlas + dengue Index P
Soil quality A SoilGrids (ISRIC)
Water availability & quality A WRI Aqueduct + AQUASTAT
Terrain & buildability A SRTM / NASADEM
Land cover & degradation A ESA WorldCover + Global Forest Watch
Biodiversity & alignment B Biodiversity Intactness Index
Climate & natural hazards A ThinkHazard + NASA FIRMS + USGS
Growing conditions A CHELSA / FAO GAEZ
Food & forage diversity B FAO GAEZ crop suitability + GLW
Coastal risk B Climate Central CoastalDEM
Energy potential A Global Solar Atlas + Global Wind Atlas
Natural building materials B SoilGrids clay + forest + geology
Environmental quality A SEDAC PM2.5 + VIIRS night-lights
Connectivity A Ookla + ITU (+ Starlink)
Accessibility A Malaria Atlas friction surface
Remoteness / surroundings A GPWv4 population density
Contamination legacy C Maus mining polygons + WRI power plants
Phase-1 desk screening
These are desk numbers from open data. Soil tests, water rights and the welcome of actual neighbours all wait for a visit — we'd rather say so than pretend.
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