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Kanchanaburi

Kanchanaburi is the largest of the western provinces of . Tourists are attracted by the history of its ancient civilization and the World War II Bridge over the , originally spelt "Khwae" but officially changed to Kwai to accommodate the expectations of tourists.
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  • Type: Province with 896,000 residents
  • Description: province in western Thailand
  • Also known as: “Kanchanaburi province”, “Kanchanaburi Province”, “Kanjanaburi”, and “Park Prag”

Kanchanaburi

Latitude
14.4402° or 14° 26′ 25″ north
Longitude
99.2677° or 99° 16′ 4″ east
Population
896,000
Elevation
198 metres (650 feet)
Open location code
7M6XC7R9+33
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4351576462
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­province
Geo­Names ID
1153080
Wiki­data ID
Q275740
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Kanchanaburi” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Propinsi Kanchanaburi”
  • Arabic: “كانتشانابوري”
  • Arabic: “محافظة كانتشانابوري”
  • Balinese: “Propinsi Kanchanaburi”
  • Belarusian: “Канчанабуры”
  • Bengali: “কানাচানবুরি”
  • Bishnupriya: “চাংৱাত কানচানাবুরি”
  • Bulgarian: “Канчанабури”
  • Burmese: “ကန်ချနဘူရီ ခရိုင်”
  • Burmese: “ကာဉ္စနပုရီပြည်နယ်”
  • Catalan: “província de Kanchanaburi”
  • Cebuano: “Changwat Kanchanaburi (lalawigan sa Tailandya)”
  • Cebuano: “Changwat Kanchanaburi”
  • Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای کانچانابوری”
  • Chinese: “Kanchanaburi Hú”
  • Chinese: “北碧”
  • Chinese: “北碧府”
  • Chinese: “干乍那武里”
  • Chinese: “干乍那武里府”
  • Chinese: “甘差那武里府”
  • Danish: “Kanchanaburi”
  • Dutch: “Changwat Kanchanaburi”
  • Dutch: “Kanchanaburi”
  • Finnish: “Kanchanaburi”
  • French: “Kanchanaburi”
  • French: “province de Kanchanaburi”
  • French: “Province de Kanchanaburi”
  • Galician: “Provincia de Kanchanaburi”
  • Galician: “Provincia Kanchanaburi”
  • Georgian: “კანჩანაბურის პროვინცია”
  • German: “Kanchanaburi”
  • German: “TH-71”
  • Greek: “Επαρχία Καντσαναμπουρί”
  • Gujarati: “કંચનબૂરી”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז קנצ’נאבורי”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז קנצ’נבורי”
  • Hebrew: “קנצ’נאבורי”
  • Hebrew: “קנצ’נבורי”
  • Hindi: “कांचनाबुरी प्रान्त”
  • Indonesian: “Kanchanaburi”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Kanchanaburi”
  • Italian: “Kanchanaburi”
  • Italian: “provincia di Kanchanaburi”
  • Italian: “Provincia di Kanchanaburi”
  • Japanese: “カーンチャナブリー県”
  • Japanese: “カンチャナブリー県”
  • Kannada: “ಕಂಚನಾಬುರಿ”
  • Khmer: “ខេត្តកញ្ចនបុរី”
  • Korean: “깐짜나부리주”
  • Korean: “깐차나부리 주”
  • Korean: “칸차나부리 주”
  • Lao: “ຈັງຫວັດການຈະນະບຸລີ”
  • Latvian: “Kānčanaburī”
  • Lithuanian: “Kančanaburis”
  • Malagasy: “Faritanin’i Kanchanaburi”
  • Malay: “Kanchanaburi”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Kanchanaburi”
  • Malayalam: “കാഞ്ചനബുരി പ്രവിശ്യ”
  • Marathi: “कांचनबुरी”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Kanchanaburi Hū”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kanchanaburi Hú”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kanchanaburi”
  • Northern Frisian: “Prowins Kanchanaburi”
  • Northern Luri: “کانتچانابوری”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kanchanaburi”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kanchanaburi-fylket”
  • Norwegian: “Kanchanaburi”
  • Persian: “استان کانتچانابوری”
  • Persian: “کانتچانابوری”
  • Polish: “Kanchanaburi”
  • Polish: “Prowincja Kanchanaburi”
  • Portuguese: “Kanchanaburi”
  • Romanian: “Provincia Kanchanaburi”
  • Russian: “Канчанабури”
  • Scots: “Kanchanaburi Province”
  • Sinhala: “කන්චනබුරි”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Kanchanaburi”
  • Spanish: “Provincia Kanchanaburi”
  • Swedish: “Kanchanaburi”
  • Tagalog: “Lalawigan ng Kanchanaburi”
  • Tajik: “Vilojati Kancanaburi”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Канчанабури”
  • Tamil: “காஞ்சனாபுரி”
  • Telugu: “కాంచనబురి”
  • Thai: “กาญจนบุรี”
  • Thai: “จ.กาญจนบุรี”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดกาญจนบุรี”
  • Tibetan: “ཀཱན་ཅ་ན་བུ་རི་ཞིང་ཆེན།”
  • Turkish: “Kançanaburi”
  • Turkish: “Kanchanaburi”
  • Ukrainian: “Канчанабурі”
  • Ukrainian: “Провінція Канчанабурі”
  • Urdu: “کانچانا بوری صوبہ”
  • Urdu: “کانچانابوری صوبہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Kanchanaburi”
  • Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Kanchanaburi”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kanchanaburi”
  • Western Panjabi: “صوبہ کانچانابوری”
  • Wu Chinese: “北碧府”
  • Yue Chinese: “北碧府”

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