Pangkham
Pangkham, known before 1999 as Panghsang, is a border town in Myanmar's far eastern Shan State. It is situated at a bend on the Hka River near the border with Yunnan Province, China, opposite of the town of Menglian.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: City with 15,900 residents
- Description: city in Myanmar
- Also known as: “Pang Hseng”, “Pang Sang”, “Pang Shang”, “Pangsang”, “Phangsang”, “Wān Long”, and “ပန်ဆန်း”
Pangkham
- Categories: administrative territorial entity, border city, town in Myanmar, and locality
- Location: Pangsang Township, Matman, Shan State, Myanmar, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
22.17876° or 22° 10′ 44″ northLongitude
99.16678° or 99° 10′ 0″ eastPopulation
15,900Elevation
1,703 feet (519 metres)Open location code
7MJX55H8+GPOpenStreetMap ID
node 1752769319OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1288322Wikidata ID
Q2049431
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Pangkham” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بانغكهام”
- Armenian: “Պանգխամ”
- Assamese: “পাংখাম”
- Asturian: “Pangkham”
- Burmese: “ပန်ခမ့်”
- Burmese: “ပန်ခမ်းမြို့”
- Burmese: “ပန်ဆန်းမြို့”
- Chinese: “Bāngsāng”
- Chinese: “班散”
- Chinese: “邦康”
- Chinese: “邦康特区”
- Chinese: “邦桑” (historical)
- Danish: “Pangkham”
- Dutch: “Pangkham”
- French: “Pangkham”
- Georgian: “პანგხამი”
- German: “Panghsang”
- Hebrew: “פנגקהאם”
- Hungarian: “Pangkham”
- Hungarian: “Pangszang”
- Japanese: “パンカム”
- Japanese: “パンカン”
- Khmer: “ប៉ាងខាំ”
- Korean: “팡캄”
- Korean: “팡캉”
- Lao: “ປາງຄຳ”
- Latin: “Pangkham”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pangkham”
- Pa'o Karen: “ဝေင်ꩻပင်သင်ꩻ”
- Parauk: “Pang Kham”
- Parauk: “Pang Sang” (historical)
- Persian: “پانگکهام”
- Portuguese: “Pangkham”
- Russian: “Панкан”
- Shan: “ပၢင်သၢင်း၊ ဝဵင်း”
- Shan: “ဝဵင်းပၢင်သၢင်”
- Shan: “ဝဵင်းပၢင်သၢင်း”
- Thai: “ปางคำ”
- Tibetan: “པང་ཁམས།”
- Ukrainian: “Панкан”
- Ukrainian: “Пансан”
- Urdu: “پانگکھام”
- Vietnamese: “Pangkham”
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