Gia Lai province

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Gia Lai
Province
T'Nưng Lake  • One Pillar Pagoda in Pleiku  • Monument to Heroes and Martyrs Gia Lai  • Great Solidarity Square  • Minh Thành Temple  • An Khê Mountain  • Dams Đắk Plao  • Đức An Lake  • Pleiku City night  • Museum Pleiku
Location of Gia Lai within Vietnam
Coordinates: 13°45′N 108°15′E / 13.750°N 108.250°E / 13.750; 108.250
Country	Vietnam
Region	Central Highlands
Capital	Pleiku
Government
• People's Council Chair	Dương Văn Trang
• People's Committee Chair	Phạm Thế Dũng
Area [1]
• Total	15,510.13 km2 (5,988.49 sq mi)
Population  (2022)
• Total	1,791,000
• Density	120/km2 (300/sq mi)
Demographics
• Ethnicities	39, including Vietnamese, Gia Rai, Ba Na, Xơ Đăng, Giẻ Triêng
GDP[2]
• Total	VND 66.158 trillion US$ 2.873 billion
Time zone	UTC+7 (ICT)
Area codes	269 (from 17 Jun 2017) 59 (until 16 Jul 2017)
ISO 3166 code	VN-30
Website	gialai.gov.vn

Gia Lai is a northern mountainous province in the Central Highlands region, the Central of Vietnam. It borders Kon Tum in the north, Quảng Ngãi in the northeast, Bình Định in the east, Phú Yên in the southeast, Đắk Lắk in the south and Ratanakiri of Cambodia in the west.

As of 2023, Gia Lai province is the 18th most populous administrative unit in Vietnam with a population of 1,613,895 people. It ranks 30th in terms of Gross Regional Domestic Product (GRDP), 33rd in per capita GRDP, and 33rd in GRDP growth rate. In 2020, the GRDP reached 80,000.32 billion VND, with a per capita GRDP of 51.9 million VND and a GRDP growth rate of 8.00%.^[3]

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