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Sekong treats Sekong Province, Laos, as a cannabis growing area, the parent of the Dak Cheung appellation. It sits in the Southern Laos growing region. The province as an administrative unit is Sekong Province.
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Why the area is on the map
- The Landrace Team's listing Laos (Dak Cheung) names Dak Cheung district, in Sekong Province, as the region of a line it sells as "Laos landrace ganja". The appellation page sets out what the listing says.
- No other source read places cannabis growing in the province. The wiki holds no accession from it.
Growing status
The status is left blank, for the reason given on Talk:Dak Cheung (appellation): the one source gives no year.
How the border is drawn
- The border is a proxy, drawn on one administrative unit: Sekong Province (OpenStreetMap relation 5831669), about 8,400 km², the figure in the infobox. The provincial figure published by the Lao tourism site is 7,665 km²; the difference is the mapped boundary's, and the infobox gives the area of the border as drawn.
- The border is not drawn from accession or news points.
The name
The page takes the province's name, Sekong; Xekong and Xékong are other spellings. The provincial capital is also called Sekong (or Lamam).
Sources
- Vietnamese, Lao and English press, the UNODC country profile for Laos (2003) and several years of the US State Department's narcotics reports were searched in October 2026 for cannabis grown in Sekong Province. None places growing there; the UNODC profile names other provinces.
- One report concerns trade: Tiếng Chuông (28 December 2023) reports two seizures, together 6.5 kg of dried cannabis, carried from Laos through the Đắc Tà Oọc border gate on the border between Quảng Nam and Sekong. It does not say where in Laos the cannabis was grown, and it is not used in the article.
- M. A. Martin's 1975 survey of cannabis in South-East Asia speaks of Laos as a whole and names no place in the province.
- French colonial travel accounts and administrative reports (1880s–1930s) were searched for the Sé Kong valley and the Kaleum and Dak Cheung uplands. None records cannabis there; their mentions of chanvre near Attopeu are of ramie or fibre.