North bordering Cambodia, 56.8 km long border, south of Bac Lieu and Ca Mau province, the west by the Gulf of Thailand with a coastline of 200 km, east respectively adjacent to the provinces of An Giang, Can Tho city and Hau Giang province.

Kien Giang has the tropical monsoon climate which is hot and wet all year round. The rainy and stormy season usually is from August to October with the annual average rainfall of 2,146.8 mm; the annual average temperature is from 26.40C to 280C. December is the coldest month without hoarfrost. Kien Giang is not directly impacted by storms; however, the rainfall from storms makes up a great part of its annual total rainfall, especially in the end of the rainy season. Its climate and weather have basic advantageous conditions which other northern provinces do not such as having few natural disasters, having not cold weather, having not directly landing storms, having abundant light and heat quantity… which are very ideal for many species of crop plants and domestic animals to grow.

Land resource: Land in Kieng Giang is suitable for agriculture and forestry development and aquaculture with the total area of natural land of 634,627.21ha, in which the part of agricultural land is 575,697.49ha, accounting for 90,71% of the total natural land area (as for rice cultivated land area is 354,011.93ha, accounting for 61.49% of agricultural land); the part of non-agricultural land area is 53,238.38ha, accounting for 8,39% of the total natural land area; the part of unused land is 5,691.34 ha, accounting for 0.90% of the total natural land area; the area of land covered by sea water along the coast is 13,781.11ha (this indicator is for observation purpose only, not calculated into the natural land area).

Water resource: The source of surface water in Kien Giang is rather plentiful; however, in the rainy season (from May to October), the greater part of its surface water is contaminated with salt water for Kien Giang is located in the intersection between the end of Hau River’s fresh water source and the head of Rach Gia Bay’s salt water source.

Marine resource: Kien Giang has a 200 kilometers long coastline and 63,290 square kilometers wide fishing ground. The Kien Giang Sea has a total of 143 islands, 105 of which are emerging ones and only 43 of which have residents. There are many river mouths, canals and channels flowing to the sea, bringing a rich natural food source that attracts aquatic species, making Kien Giang Sea one of the important fishing grounds of the whole nation. According to a survey of Vietnam Marine Research Institute, this area has a fish reserve of about 500,000 tons, 56% of which can be exploited within the inshore area having the depth from 20 to 50 meters.

Mineral resource: Kien Giang is considered as one of the provinces having the most plentiful mineral resource in the Mekong River Delta. Through some preliminary geological surveys, ores of 23 types of mineral have been found at 152 points which can be developed into mines. These types of mineral can be divided into such categories as fuel (peat), nonmetal (limestone, building stone, clay…), metal (iron, laterite…), semigemstone (morion, opal…), most of them belong to nonmetal category and can be used in the buiding material and cement production industry. According to a recent survey of Intergeo Vietnam, the limestone reserve in the territory of the province is of over 440 million tons.