Dak Nong is as well famous for its rich ethnic identity. Originally inhabited by three indigenous peoples (M’Nong, Ede and Ma), in the late 70s it has received numerous people from other provinces to become the homeland of more than 40 ethnic groups of Vietnam. Dak Nong as part of the “Central Highlands Gong Culture Space” was also recogbized by UNESCO as Intangible Cultural Heritage.

Dak Nong is also known by the first findings in the world of a lithophone, created 3,000 years ago, by prehistoric people from basalt. One of the oldest mankind’s musical instruments. Along with the gongs, epics and other ethnic musical instruments, the sound of streams and waterfalls, of volcanic eruptions, the voices of birds and animals, the murmuring of the wind, and even, in the recent past, the violent clashes of weapons, the lithophone deserves to become the main tone of the Dak Nong Geopark.