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Abstract
This paper aims at assessing land use change in the period of 2015 - 2020 and forecasting land use change to the year of 2025 and 2030 in Phu Vang district. This study used GIS technology to create change maps of 8 major soil types and then, the Markov series was used to forecast the land use change to 2025 and 2030. Research results showed that land use changes mainly occur on other non-agricultural lands, residential land, and aquaculture land. In addition, the results of the Markov model predicted the area of all types of land to the year of 2030 with an accuracy of 84.62%. Specifically, agricultural production land is likely to drop to 8544.39 ha; forestry land is likely to decrease to 1137.74 ha, and unused land is likely to decline to 414.96 ha, while some types of land for socio-economic development will increase, typically the area of residential land is likely to increase about 1380.41 ha.