Kon Tum lies between latitudes 13’’53’’B and 15016’B and longitudes 1070 20D and 108033D. It borders Quang Nam province to the north, Gia Lai province to the south, Quang Ngai province to the east, Apapew to province of Laos and Ratanakiri province of Cambodia to the west

North of Kon Tum, Route 14 follows the old Ho Chi Minh Trail which snakes north through Kon Tum, Quang Nam and Thua Thien Hue provinces, all the while running parallel to the Lao/Vietnamese frontier -- sometimes little more than a kilometre away behind a rise to the west