Luang namtha province is located in the far north of the country and borders on china and myanmar. it is a mountainous province with a population of ever 100,000. Former it was past of Bokeo and became a province in 1983, people of thirteen diffferent ethnic groups live there.
The province is very mountainous but it has two large plains where many tons of paddy rice are grown every year. These plains are called the namtha plain and the Meuang sing plain covering an area of more than 10.000 ha.
Luang Namtha has many natural resources, especially water and forests and a lot of beautiful scenery.