City profile · Vietnam · Asia
Yên Bái
Lao Cai · Vietnam
City population
100,631
#137
in Vietnam
#2
in Lao Cai
#5,716
worldwide
21.723, 104.911 · 124 km from Hanoi
About Yên Bái
Yên Bái is a city in Lao Cai, Vietnam with a population of 100,631. It is the 137th largest of the 301 cities of 15,000 or more listed in Vietnam, and the 5,716th largest worldwide. It lies 124 km from Hanoi.
Key Facts
Country
Region
Lao Cai
Rank in region
#2of 4
Coordinates
21.723, 104.911
Record updated
1 August 2025
Entry edited, not measured
City population, GeoNames. GeoNames publishes no year for its population figures, so “record updated” is when the entry was last edited — not the date the population was measured. Elevation is modelled from a digital elevation model rather than surveyed, so it is approximate.
Nearby Cities
All 301 in VietnamClosest listed cities by great-circle distance from the city centre.