Wat Pho
Wat Pho is a Buddhist temple in Bang Ramat, Taling Chan, Bangkok. Wat Pho is situated nearby to the Buddhist temple Wat Makok, as well as near the quarter Sirirat.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Buddhist temple
- Description: Buddhist temple in Taling Chan district, Bangkok, Thailand
- Also known as: “Wat Pho Bang Ramat”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Wat Makok and Wat Krachang.
Wat Makok
Buddhist temple
Photo: Dharmadana, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wat Makok is a Buddhist temple, which is situated 1 km north of Wat Pho.
Wat Krachang
Buddhist temple
Photo: Dharmadana, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wat Krachang is a Buddhist temple, which is situated 1½ km northeast of Wat Pho.
Wat Thong
Buddhist temple
Photo: Dharmadana, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wat Thong is a Buddhist temple, which is situated 1½ km east of Wat Pho.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sirirat and Tha Pra Chan.
Sirirat
Quarter
Siri Rat is one of the 180 sub-districts of Bangkok, Thailand, covering the area around Siriraj Hospital, located on the southern rim of Khlong Bangkok Noi mouth to the western bank of the Chao Phraya River in Bangkok Noi District. Sirirat is situated 6 km east of Wat Pho.
Tha Pra Chan
Neighborhood
Photo: Vano111ru, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tha Phra Chan is a pier on Rattanakosin Island, Bangkok, on the east bank of the Chao Phraya River, in Phra Nakhon District. The pier is beside Thammasat University's campus of the same name. Tha Pra Chan is situated 7 km east of Wat Pho.
Bangkok
Photo: ויקיג’אנקי, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bangkok is the capital and largest city of Thailand. With a population of over eleven million inhabitants, Bangkok is by far Thailand's main city, with the urban sprawl comprising nearly half of Thailand's population, and the largest city on the Southeast Asian mainland.
Wat Pho
- Categories: wat, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Bang Ramat, Taling Chan, Bangkok, Thailand, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
13.76877° or 13° 46′ 8″ northLongitude
100.42703° or 100° 25′ 37″ eastElevation
8 metres (26 feet)Open location code
7P52QC9G+GROpenStreetMap ID
way 376312450OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipGeoNames ID
1607643Wikidata ID
Q100234708
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Thai—“Wat Pho” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “卧佛寺”
- Dutch: “Wat Pho”
- Dutch: “Wat_Pho”
- French: “Bouddha couché du Wat Pho”
- German: “Wat Pho”
- Hebrew: “ואט פו”
- Japanese: “ワット・プラチェートゥポンウィモンマンカラーラーム”
- Korean: “왓 포”
- Russian: “Ват Пхо”
- Thai: “วัดพระเชตุพนวิมลมังคลารามราชวรมหาวิหาร”
- Thai: “วัดโพธิ์”
- Thai: “วัดโพธิ์บางระมาด”
- Thai: “วัดโพธิ์ล้ม”
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