The article has used questionnaires which designed following five Likirt scale to measure the attitudes of 400 people living in the western area of Thai Nguyen City, Thai Nguyen Province, Vietnam toward land acquisition that may be occured in the future. Survey data that analysed by SPSS is digitized and combined with the spatial interpolation method - integrated in GIS to analyze the spatial distribution of community attitudes. The research results show that people with high education, middle-aged and female people will have more positive attitudes in land acquisition. Meanwhile, people with high incomes or jobs directly dependent on land tend to oppose land acquisition. In terms of space, very positive attitude is mainly distributed in Quyet Thang, Thinh Duc, Tan Thinh and Thinh Dan communes with an area of about 2,329 ha. Positive attitudes were mainly distributed in the east of Phuc Triu commune, the west and northeast of Quyet Thang commune, south of Tan Cuong commune, east of Thinh Duc commune with an area of about 3,376 ha. The rest is the area with less positive attitude, mainly distributed in Phuc Xuan, Phuc Triu, Tan Cuong communes with an area of about 3,339.5 ha.

GIS

Community attitudes

land acquisition

Thai Nguyen

GIS

land use planning