Khwae Yai River
The Khwae Yai River, also known as the Si Sawat, is a river in western Thailand. It has its source in the Tenasserim Hills and flows for about 380 kilometres through Sangkhla Buri, Si Sawat, and Mueang Districts of Kanchanaburi Province, where it merges with the Khwae Noi to form the Mae Klong River at Pak Phraek.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Kanchanaburi province, Thailand
- Also known as: “Mae Nam Khwae Yai”, “river Kwai”, and “Si Sawat”
Places of Interest
Highlights include The JEATH War Museum and Death Railway Museum and Research Centre.
The JEATH War Museum
Museum
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The JEATH War Museum are two war museums in Kanchanaburi, Thailand about the Death Railway, which was built from 1942 to 1943 by Allied POWs under the direction of the Japanese as part of the Thai-Burma railways.
Death Railway Museum and Research Centre
Museum
Photo: Gasson nz, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Thailand–Burma Railway Centre is a museum and research centre in Kanchanaburi, Thailand. It is privately funded and ran by Rod Beattie, an Australian who is an expert in the history of the Thailand–Burma Railway.
Wat Chaichumphon Chanasongkhram
Buddhist temple
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Wat Chaichumphon Chanasongkhram is a Buddhist temple.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kanchanaburi.
Kanchanaburi
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Kanchanaburi is a town municipality in Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand. The town of lies to the southeast of Erawan National Park within Kanchanaburi Province, approximately 120km west of Bangkok.
Khwae Yai River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Kanchanaburi, Thailand, Southeast Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Welsh—“Khwae Yai River” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Կխվեյայ”
- Asturian: “Ríu Khwae Yai”
- Cebuano: “Mae Nam Khwae Yai”
- Chinese: “奎艾河”
- Chinese: “桂亞河”
- Czech: “Kwai”
- Dutch: “Khwae Yai”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر خواى ياى”
- Estonian: “Khwae Yai jõgi”
- French: “Khwae Yai”
- French: “Kwaï Yai”
- German: “Kwae Yai”
- German: “Kwai”
- German: “Mae Nam Khwae Yai”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Khwae Yai”
- Irish: “Abhainn Khwae Yai”
- Italian: “Khwae Yai”
- Japanese: “クウェー・ヤイ川”
- Korean: “쾌야이강”
- Lithuanian: “Khvenojus”
- Lithuanian: “Kvaija”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Khwae Yai”
- Persian: “رودخانه کوای”
- Polish: “Khwae Yai”
- Russian: “Квай-Яй”
- Russian: “Квай”
- Russian: “Кхвэяй”
- Slovenian: “Khwae Yai (reka)”
- Slovenian: “Khwae Yai”
- Spanish: “Kwai Yai”
- Spanish: “Río Kwai Yai”
- Spanish: “rio Kwai”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำแควใหญ่”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำศรีสวัสดิ์”
- Turkish: “Kwai Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Квай”
- Ukrainian: “Кхвеяй”
- Welsh: “Afon Khwae Yai”
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