Ko Samui
Ko Samui, often called just Samui is an island of great natural beauty and variety in the Gulf of Thailand. The palm-fringed shoreline and coconut and fruit cultivation of the coastal lowlands rise to a central granite massif, the slopes of which are cloaked in virgin rainforest.Photo: Tsui, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Ssuri, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Chaweng
Photo: Jjtkk, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Chaweng is a beach on the east coast of Ko Samui. It has a lovely white beach and vibrant nightlife, especially at its north end.
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Choeng Mon
Photo: Damian Moore, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Choeng Mon is a small beach resort on the north coast of Ko Samui, between Chaweng and Bang Rak.
Nathon
Nathon is a town on the west coast of the Thai island of Ko Samui, a commercial center and a major port for fishing and transport of goods and people to mainland Thailand.Samui South Coast
The South Coast is an area on Ko Samui.Ko Samui
- Type: City with 70,100 residents
- Description: island in the gulf of Thailand
- Categories: island and locality
- Location: Surat Thani Province, Thailand, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude of centre
9.5072° or 9° 30' 26" northLongitude of centre
99.9958° or 99° 59' 45" eastPopulation
70,100Elevation
394 metres (1,293 feet)IATA airport code
USMOpenStreetMap ID
node 7355162734OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1606595Wikidata ID
Q270375Ko Samui Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Ko Samui
- Arabic: جزيرة ساموي
- Arabic: كوه ساموي
- Azerbaijani: Samuy adası
- Basque: Ko Samui
- Belarusian: Самуй
- Bishnupriya: আম্ফোয়ে কো সামুই
- Bulgarian: Ко Самуи
- Burmese: ကော့စမွီကျွန်း
- Catalan: Ko Samui
- Cebuano: Ko Samui Island
- Chinese: 沙湄岛
- Chinese: 沙湄島
- Chinese: 苏梅岛
- Chinese: 蘇梅島
- Chinese: 蘇美島
- Chinese: 阁沙梅岛
- Croatian: Ko Samui
- Czech: Ko Samui
- Danish: Koh Samui
- Dutch: Amphoe Koh Samui
- Dutch: Ko Samui
- Dutch: Koh Samui
- Egyptian Arabic: جزيره ساموى
- English: Koh Samui
- English: Samui island
- Estonian: Ko Samui
- Estonian: Koh Samui
- Estonian: Samui
- Finnish: Ko Samui
- French: Ko Samui
- French: Koh samui
- German: Ko Samui
- German: Samui
- Hebrew: קו סאמוי
- Hebrew: קוסאמוי
- Hebrew: קוסמוי
- Hebrew: קו סמוי
- Hungarian: Ko Szamuj
- Indonesian: Ko Samui
- Indonesian: Koh Samui
- Interlingue: Ko Samui
- Irish: Ko Samui
- Italian: Ko Samui
- Italian: Koh Samui
- Japanese: サムイ
- Japanese: サムイ島
- Japanese: テーサバーンナコーン・コ・サムイ
- Kazakh: Samwï
- Kazakh: Самуи
- Kazakh: سامۋىي
- Khmer: Samui
- Khmer: កោះសមុយ
- Korean: 꼬 사무이
- Korean: 사무이
- Korean: 사무이섬
- Korean: 코 사무이
- Latvian: Samui sala
- Lithuanian: Samujis
- Malay: Ko Samui
- Malayalam: കോ സമൂയി
- Norwegian: Ko Samui
- Norwegian Bokmål: Ko Samui
- Norwegian Bokmål: Koh Samui
- Panjabi: ਕੋ ਸਮੂਈ
- Persian: جزیره ساموی
- Polish: Ko Samui
- Polish: Samui
- Portuguese: Ko Samui
- Russian: Самуи
- Russian: Самуй
- Somali: Ko Samui
- Spanish: Ko Samui
- Swedish: Ko Samui
- Swedish: Koh Samui
- Thai: สมุย
- Thai: อำเภอเกาะสมุย
- Thai: เกาะสมุย
- Thai: เกาะสมุย สุราษฏร์ธานี
- Turkish: Ko Samui
- Turkish: Koh samui
- Turkish: Samui
- Ukrainian: Самуї
- Urdu: کو ساموی
- Vietnamese: Ko Samui
- Welsh: Ko Samui
- Welsh: Samui
- Wu Chinese: Koh Samui
- Wu Chinese: 苏梅岛
- Yue Chinese: 蘇梅島
- Kau Samui
- Kaw Samui
- Koh Samuie
- Kok Samoi Island
- Samoi
- Samoi Island
- Samuie
- Smuey
- เทศบาลนครเกาะสมุย
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Ko Samui. Photo: Ssuri, CC BY-SA 3.0.