Vietnam
Quảng Trị province
Bố Trạch District

Son Doong Cave

Sơn Đoòng Cave, in Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng National Park, Quảng Trị Province, , is the world's largest natural cave. Located near the Laos–Vietnam border, Hang Sơn Đoòng has an internal, fast-flowing subterranean river and the largest cross-section of any cave, worldwide, believed to be twice that of the next-largest passage.
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  • Type: Cave
  • Description: Largest cave passage in the world, located near the Laos-Vietnam border
  • Also known as: “Hang Sơn Đoòng”, “Sơn Đoòng Cave”, and “Son GJoong Cave”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Swallow Cave.

Cave
Photo: JB, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hang Én, occasionally referred to as Én cave in English, is a cave in Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Én is the third largest cave in the world, after Hang Sơn Đoòng in the same national park, and Deer Cave in . is situated 3 km southeast of Son Doong Cave.

Son Doong Cave

Latitude
17.45694° or 17° 27′ 25″ north
Longitude
106.2875° or 106° 17′ 15″ east
Elevation
377 metres (1,237 feet)
Open location code
7P98F74Q+Q2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3157796075
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­cave_entrance
Geo­Names ID
10281266
Wiki­data ID
Q44889
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Son Doong Cave” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Son Doong”
  • Albanian: “Hang Sơn Đoòng”
  • Albanian: “Shpella e Son Doong”
  • Albanian: “Sơn Đoòng”
  • Arabic: “سون دونغ”
  • Arabic: “كهف شاندونغ”
  • Aragonese: “Son Doong”
  • Armenian: “Շոնդոնգ”
  • Asturian: “Cueva Son Doong”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şondonq mağarası”
  • Basque: “Son Doong”
  • Belarusian: “Шандонг”
  • Bengali: “হ্যাংসন ডুং”
  • Bulgarian: “Шондонг”
  • Catalan: “Son Doong”
  • Catalan: “Sơn Đoòng”
  • Cebuano: “Sơn Đoòng Cave”
  • Chinese: “山水洞”
  • Chinese: “韩松洞”
  • Croatian: “Son Doong”
  • Croatian: “Sơn Đoòng”
  • Czech: “Son Doong”
  • Danish: “Son Doong”
  • Dutch: “Hang Son Doong”
  • Dutch: “Hang Sơn Đoòng”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “شنق سن اونج”
  • Esperanto: “Kaverno Son Doong”
  • Estonian: “Son Doong”
  • Estonian: “Sơn Đoòng”
  • Estonian: “Sơn Đoòngi koobas”
  • Finnish: “Sơn Đoòng”
  • French: “Grotte Hãng Sơn Đông”
  • French: “Grotte Hang Son Doong”
  • French: “Grotte Son Dông”
  • French: “grotte Sơn Đông”
  • French: “Grotte Sơn Đông”
  • French: “Grotte Son Doong”
  • French: “Grotte Sơn Đoòng”
  • French: “Hang Son Doong”
  • Galician: “Cova de Son Doong”
  • Georgian: “შონდონგი”
  • German: “Hang Son Dong”
  • German: “Son-Doong-Höhle”
  • German: “Sơn-Đoòng-Höhle”
  • Greek: “Ποτάμι στο Βουνό”
  • Greek: “Σπήλαιο Χανγκ Σον Ντονγκ”
  • Haitian: “Son Doong”
  • Hindi: “शेडोंग गुफा”
  • Hungarian: “Hang Son Doong”
  • Hungarian: “Hang Sơn Đoòng”
  • Icelandic: “Sơn Đoòng”
  • Ido: “Kaverno Son Doong”
  • Indonesian: “Gua Son Doong”
  • Ingush: “Шондонг”
  • Interlingua: “Caverna de Son Doong”
  • Italian: “grotta Son Doong”
  • Italian: “Grotta Sơn Đoòng”
  • Japanese: “ソンドン洞”
  • Javanese: “Guwa Son Doong”
  • Kazakh: “Шондонг”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Ubuvumo bwa Hang Son Doong”
  • Korean: “선도옹 동굴”
  • Latin: “Son Doong”
  • Latvian: “Šondoonas ala”
  • Latvian: “Sondoong ala”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Cava de Son Doong”
  • Lithuanian: “Šondongas”
  • Lithuanian: “Sondoong”
  • Lombard: “Cueva de Son Doong”
  • Low German: “Son-Doong-Höhl”
  • Low German: “Sơn-Đoòng-Höhl”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Son Doong”
  • Macedonian: “Шондонг”
  • Malay: “Gua Son Doong”
  • Malayalam: “സൺ ഡൂങ് ഗുഹ”
  • Maltese: “Son Doong”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Son Doong”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Son Doong”
  • Norwegian: “Son Doong”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Son Doong”
  • Panjabi: “ਸੋਨ ਡੂੰਗ ਗੁਫ਼ਾ”
  • Persian: “غار سون دونگ”
  • Polish: “Sơn Đoòng”
  • Portuguese: “Son Doong”
  • Portuguese: “Sơn Đoòng”
  • Romanian: “Peștera Son Doong”
  • Romansh: “Cuvel Son Doong”
  • Russian: “Шондонг”
  • Serbian: “Сон Донг”
  • Slovak: “Hang Sơn Đoòng”
  • Slovak: “Son Doong”
  • Slovenian: “Jama Son Doong”
  • Slovenian: “Sơn Đoòng”
  • Spanish: “Gruta de Sơn Đoòng”
  • Swahili: “Pango la Son Doong”
  • Swedish: “Hang Son Dong”
  • Swedish: “Son Dong”
  • Swedish: “Sơn Đoòng”
  • Tagalog: “Son Doong”
  • Tagalog: “Yungib ng Son Doong”
  • Tamil: “சன் டூங் குகை”
  • Telugu: “సన్ డూంగ్ కేవ్”
  • Thai: “ถ้ำเซินด่อง”
  • Thai: “ถ้ำมณฑลซานตง”
  • Turkish: “Son Doong”
  • Turkmen: “Şondong gowagy”
  • Ukrainian: “Шондонг”
  • Urdu: “سون ڈونگ غار”
  • Urdu: “شیڈونگ غار”
  • Uzbek: “Son Dong gʻori”
  • Uzbek: “Son Doong g’ori”
  • Vietnamese: “Hang Sơn Đoòng”
  • Vietnamese: “Sơn Đoòng”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Son Doong”
  • Welsh: “Son Doong”
  • Western Armenian: “Հոնկ Սոն Տունկ քարայրը”
  • Western Frisian: “Son Doong”
  • Western Frisian: “Sơn Đoòng”
  • Western Panjabi: “سون ڈونگ غار”
  • Wu Chinese: “山水洞”
  • “Son Doong”

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