Paks
Paks is a small town in Tolna county, in the south of Hungary, on the right bank of the Danube River, 100 km south of Budapest. Paks as a former agricultural settlement is now the home of the only Hungarian nuclear power plant, which provides about 50% of the country's electricity consumption.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 17,900 residents
- Description: town in Hungary
- Also known as: “Dunakömlőd”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fehérvári úti Stadion and Szentlélek templom.
Fehérvári úti Stadion
Pitch
Photo: RuthStevens, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Fehérvári úti Stadion is a multi-use stadium in Paks, Hungary. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Paksi FC. The stadium is able to hold 5,000 people.
Paks-Dunapart railway station
Railway stop
Photo: Globetrotter19, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Paks-Dunapart railway station is a railway stop.
Paks
- Categories: town in Hungary and locality
- Location: Tolna County, Southern Transdanubia, Hungary, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
46.62295° or 46° 37′ 23″ northLongitude
18.85894° or 18° 51′ 32″ eastPopulation
17,900Elevation
96 metres (315 feet)United Nations Location Code
HU PAKOpen location code
8FRWJVF5+5HOpenStreetMap ID
node 164965193OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Paks” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “باكس (المجر)”
- Arabic: “باكس”
- Belarusian: “Пакш”
- Bulgarian: “Пакш”
- Catalan: “Paks”
- Cebuano: “Paks”
- Chinese: “Paks”
- Chinese: “保克什”
- Croatian: “Paks”
- Czech: “Paks”
- Danish: “Paks”
- Dutch: “Paks”
- Esperanto: “Paks”
- Estonian: “Paks”
- French: “Paks”
- German: “Paks”
- Hebrew: “פקש”
- Hungarian: “Paks”
- Irish: “Paks”
- Italian: “Paks”
- Japanese: “パクシュ”
- Japanese: “ポクシュ”
- Korean: “퍽시”
- Lithuanian: “Pakšas”
- Lombard: “Paks”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Paks”
- Malay: “Paks”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Paks”
- Moksha: “Пакш”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Paks”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Paks”
- Norwegian: “Paks”
- Persian: “پاکش”
- Polish: “Paks”
- Portuguese: “Paks”
- Romanian: “Paks”
- Russian: “Пакс”
- Russian: “Пакш”
- Serbian: “Paks”
- Serbian: “Pakš”
- Serbian: “Пакш”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Paks”
- Slovak: “Paks”
- Slovenian: “Paks”
- Spanish: “Paks”
- Swedish: “Paks”
- Turkish: “Paks”
- Ukrainian: “Пакш”
- Uzbek: “Paks”
- Vietnamese: “Paks”
- “Paks”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Paksi Városi Ügyészség and M6 Autópálya Alosztály Paks.
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