Hpakant
Hpakant is a town in Hpakant Township, Kachin State in the northernmost part of Myanmar. It is located on the Uyu River 350 kilometres north of Mandalay. It is famous for its jade mines which produce gem-quality jadeite.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Yin Min Tun, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 60,100 residents
- Description: human settlement in Myanmar
- Also known as: “Hpakan” and “Hpākān”
Hpakant
- Categories: human settlement, town in Myanmar, and locality
- Location: Hpakant Township, Mohnyin District, Kachin State, Myanmar, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
25.6123° or 25° 36′ 45″ northLongitude
96.3125° or 96° 18′ 45″ eastPopulation
60,100Elevation
902 feet (275 metres)Open location code
7MQRJ867+W2OpenStreetMap ID
node 3824288357OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1323815Wikidata ID
Q15226232
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Hpakant” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “هباكانت”
- Bengali: “হাকান্ট”
- Burmese: “ဖားကန့်”
- Burmese: “ဖားကန့်မြို့”
- Catalan: “Hpakant”
- Chinese: “帕敢”
- Danish: “Hpakant”
- Dutch: “Hpakant”
- Egyptian Arabic: “هباكانت”
- Finnish: “Hpakant”
- French: “Hpakant”
- Greek: “Χπακάντ”
- Gujarati: “હપાકાંત”
- Hindi: “पकांत”
- Indonesian: “Hpakant”
- Irish: “Hpakant”
- Italian: “Hpakant”
- Japanese: “パーカン”
- Japanese: “パカント”
- Japanese: “パッカン”
- Kannada: “ಹಪಕಂಟ್”
- Korean: “호파칸”
- Latvian: “Hpakanta”
- Lithuanian: “Hpakantas”
- Malay: “Hpakant”
- Marathi: “हपाकान्ट”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hpakant”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hpakant”
- Polish: “Hpakant”
- Portuguese: “Hpakant”
- Portuguese: “Phakant”
- Russian: “Хпакант”
- Shan: “ၽႃၵၢၼ်ႉ၊ ဝဵင်း”
- Shan: “ဝဵင်းၽႃၵၢၼ်ႉ”
- Sinhala: “හ්පාකාන්ට්”
- Spanish: “Hpakant”
- Swedish: “Hpakant”
- Tamil: “ஹபாக்கன்ட்”
- Telugu: “పాకాంత్”
- Thai: “พ่ากั่น”
- Turkish: “Hpakant”
- Ukrainian: “Хпакант”
- Urdu: “حپاکانت”
- Vietnamese: “Hpakant”
- Vietnamese: “Phakant”
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