Most Pà Thẻn live in Hà Giang and Tuyên Quang provinces, located in Vietnam's Northeast region.

The Pà Thẻn also planted various spices such as basil, shallot, spring onion, garlic, ginger, crocus, red pepper, lesser galangal, citronella, eryngium, perilla, and marjoram.

Sugarcane was also planted as well as fruit trees such as tangerine, guava, banana, grapefruit, lychee, longan, jackfruit, orange, and papaya.

The Pà Thẻn raise various animals such as water buffaloes, pigs, cattle, chickens, ducks, goats, and dogs (Vu 2013:86).

A priest (sorcerer) plays the tầy nhậy, a wooden plank about 30 centimeters (1 ft) wide and 1 meter (3 ft) long that is played using a small bamboo stick and balanced by an iron ring (Vu 2013:169).