Phuket
Phuket, pronounced "puh-KET", is Thailand's largest island. It is 48 km in length, 21 km at its widest, and is in Southern Thailand, on the west-facing Andaman Sea coastline, suspended from the southern tip of Phang Nga province by a pair of short but substantial road bridges.Tap on the map to travel |
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Phuket Town
7°53′17″N 98°23′51″E / 7.88806°N 98.39750°E Phuket is a city in the southeast of Phuket Island, Thailand, and the capital of Phuket province.Karon
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Karon Beach refers to a beach, and the town adjoining it, on the west coast of Phuket, Thailand.
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Kamala
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Kamala is on the west coast of Phuket, just to the north of Patong, and immediately south of Surin Beach.
Kata
Kata Yai and Kata Noi are two adjacent beaches on the west coast of Phuket, directly south of Karon.Chalong Bay
Chalong Bay is on the east coast of Phuket.Surin
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Surin Beach Ao Surin, also หาดสุรินทร์) Hat Surin) is on the west coast of Phuket, about 15 km north of Patong.
Rawai
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Rawai is a seafront village in Phuket. The northern part of Rawai is known as Hat Mittraphap, and has some beachfront, while the southern portion is the urban area and a port called Laem Ka.
Mai Khao
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Mai Khao is a beach on the northwestern coast of Phuket, Thailand.
Ko Racha
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Ko Racha Yai and Ko Racha Noi, also known as Ko Raya Yai and Ko Raya Noi, are twin islands off the south coast of Ko Phuket.
Nai Thon and Nai Yang
Nai Thon and Nai Yang are two adjacent quiet beaches in northern Phuket.Nai Han
Nai Han, more commonly referred to as Nai Harn, is a beach at the southernmost tip of Phuket, near Laem Phromthep.Bang Thao
Bang Thao Ao Bang Thao), also known as Bang Tao and Laguna Beach, is a beach on the northwest side of Phuket.Laem Sing
Laem Sing is a beach in Phuket, 1 km south of Surin Beach.Ko Hae
Ko Hae, sometimes spelled Ko He or Ko Hey and also known as Coral Island, is an island southeast of Phuket, about 5 km off-shore.Cape Panwa
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Cape Panwa is a region in southern Phuket, extending into the Andaman sea.
Phuket
- Type: State with 417,000 residents
- Description: island of Thailand
- Categories: province of Thailand and locality
- Location: Southern Thailand, Thailand, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude of centre
7.9366° or 7° 56' 12" northLongitude of centre
98.3529° or 98° 21' 11" eastPopulation
417,000Elevation
131 metres (430 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 4351792162OpenStreetMap Feature
place=stateGeoNames ID
1151253Wikidata ID
Q182565Phuket Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Fuket
- Achinese: Propinsi Phuket
- Albanian: Provinca Phuket
- Arabic: Phuket
- Arabic: بوكيت
- Arabic: جزيرة بوكيت
- Arabic: جزيرة فوكيت
- Arabic: محافظة بوكيت
- Arabic: محافظة فوكيت
- Armenian: Պհուկետ
- Basque: Phuket
- Belarusian: Пхукет
- Bengali: ফুকেত প্রদেশ
- Bishnupriya: চাংৱাত ফুকেত
- Bulgarian: Пукет
- Catalan: Província de Phuket
- Cebuano: Phuket Province
- Central Kurdish: پارێزگای فوکێت
- Chinese: PHUKET
- Chinese: Phuket Hú
- Chinese: ภูเก็ต
- Chinese: 布吉島
- Chinese: 布吉府
- Chinese: 普吉
- Chinese: 普吉岛
- Chinese: 普吉島
- Chinese: 普吉府
- Chinese: 通扣
- Czech: Phuket
- Czech: Talang
- Czech: Tha-Laang
- Danish: Phuket
- Dutch: Changwat Phuket
- Dutch: Phuket
- English: Changwat Phuket
- English: Phuket Island
- English: Phuket Province
- English: Phuket province
- Esperanto: Provinco Phuket
- Estonian: Phuketi provints
- Faroese: Phuket
- Finnish: Phuket
- Finnish: Phuket provinssi
- French: Djonkseylon
- French: Phuket
- French: Province de Phuket
- French: Salanga
- French: province de Phuket
- Galician: Provincia Phuket
- Galician: Provincia de Phuket
- Georgian: ფხუკეტის პროვინცია
- German: Phuket
- German: TH-83
- Greek: Πουκέτ
- Gujarati: ફુકેટ
- Hebrew: מחוז פוקט
- Hebrew: פוקט
- Hindi: फुकेट
- Hindi: फूकेत प्रान्त
- Hungarian: Phuket
- Icelandic: Phuket
- Indonesian: Provinsi Phuket
- Indonesian: Pulau Phuket
- Italian: Phuket
- Italian: provincia di Phuket
- Japanese: プーケット
- Japanese: プーケット島
- Japanese: プーケット県
- Kabyle: Fuket
- Kabyle: Phuket
- Kannada: ಫುಕೆಟ್
- Kazakh: Pxwket
- Kazakh: Пхукет
- Kazakh: پحۋكەت
- Khmer: ខេត្តភូកេត
- Korean: 푸껫 섬
- Korean: 푸껫주
- Korean: 푸케트 섬
- Korean: 푸켓 섬
- Lao: ຈັງຫວັດພູເກັດ
- Latvian: Puketa
- Lithuanian: Puketas
- Malagasy: Faritanin'i Phuket
- Malay: Phuket
- Malay: Pulau Phuket
- Malay: Wilayah Phuket
- Marathi: फुकेट
- Marathi: फुकेट प्रांत
- Min Dong Chinese: Phuket Hū
- Min Nan Chinese: Phuket Hú
- Minangkabau: Phuket
- Nepali: फुकेट प्रदेश
- Northern Luri: فوکت
- Norwegian: Phuket
- Norwegian Bokmål: Phuket
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Phuket-fylket
- Persian: استان پوکت
- Persian: جزیرهٔ پوکت
- Persian: جزیره پوکت
- Persian: پوکت
- Polish: Phuket
- Polish: Prowincja Phuket
- Portuguese: Ilhas Phuket
- Portuguese: Phuket
- Romanian: Provincia Phuket
- Russian: Бхукет
- Russian: Остров Пхукет
- Russian: Провинция Пхукет
- Russian: Пукет
- Russian: Пхукет
- Scots: Phuket Province
- Serbian: Пукет
- Serbo-Croatian: Puket
- Sinhala: ෆුකට්
- Slovenian: Phuket
- Slovenian: Puket
- Spanish: Phuket
- Spanish: Provincia Phuket
- Spanish: Provincia de Phuket
- Swedish: Phuket
- Tagalog: Lalawigan ng Phuket
- Tamil: புக்கெட் மாகாணம்
- Tamil: பூகத் மாநிலம்
- Tamil: ப்ஹுகேட்
- Telugu: ఫుకెట్
- Thai: Phuket
- Thai: จ.ภูเก็ต
- Thai: จังหวัดภูเก็ต
- Thai: ภูเก็จ
- Thai: ภูเก็ต
- Thai: เกาะภูเก็ต
- Turkish: Phuket
- Turkish: Puket
- Turkish: Puket adası
- Ukrainian: Пхукет
- Urdu: صوبہ پھوکٹ
- Urdu: صوبہ پھوکیت
- Uzbek: Phuket province
- Vietnamese: Phuket
- Vietnamese: Tỉnh Phuket
- Waray (Philippines): Phuket
- Western Panjabi: صوبہ پھوکٹ
- Wu Chinese: Phuket province
- Wu Chinese: 布吉府
- Wu Chinese: 普吉府
- Yakut: Пхукет
- Yue Chinese: 布吉府
- Yue Chinese: 普吉府
- Bhuket
- Muang Thalang
- Provincia di Phuket
- Pucket
- ფუკეტის პროვინცია
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