Son Doong Cave
Sơn Đoòng Cave, in Phong Nha–Kẻ Bàng National Park, Quảng Trị province, Vietnam, 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.
- Cave
- …lies at an elevation of around 380 metres (1,240 feet)
- Description: Largest cave passage in the world, located near the Laos-Vietnam border
- Also known as“Hang Sơn Đoòng”“Son GJoong Cave”
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Son Doong Cave
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Latitude
17.45694° or 17° 27′ 25″ north
Longitude
106.2875° or 106° 17′ 15″ east
Open location code
7P98F74Q+Q2
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OpenStreetMap feature
natural = cave_entrance
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Son Doong Cave” goes by many names.
Son DoongAfrikaans
Hang Sơn ĐoòngAlbanian
Shpella e Son DoongAlbanian
Sơn ĐoòngAlbanian
سون دونغArabic
كهف شاندونغArabic
Son DoongAragonese
ՇոնդոնգArmenian
Cueva Son DoongAsturian
Şondonq mağarasıAzerbaijani
Son DoongBasque
ШандонгBelarusian
হ্যাংসন ডুংBengali
ШондонгBulgarian
Sơn ĐoòngCatalan
Sơn Đoòng CaveCebuano
山水洞Chinese
韩松洞Chinese
Sơn ĐoòngCroatian
Son DoongCzech
Son DoongDanish
Hang Sơn ĐoòngDutch
شنق سن اونجEgyptian Arabic
Kaverno Son DoongEsperanto
Sơn ĐoòngEstonian
Sơn Đoòngi koobasEstonian
Sơn ĐoòngFinnish
Cova de Son DoongGalician
შონდონგიGeorgian
Ποτάμι στο ΒουνόGreek
Σπήλαιο Χανγκ Σον ΝτονγκGreek
Son DoongHaitian
शेडोंग गुफाHindi
Hang Sơn ĐoòngHungarian
Sơn ĐoòngIcelandic
Kaverno Son DoongIdo
Gua Son DoongIndonesian
ШондонгIngush
Caverna de Son DoongInterlingua
Grotta Sơn ĐoòngItalian
ソンドン洞Japanese
Guwa Son DoongJavanese
ШондонгKazakh
Ubuvumo bwa Hang Son DoongKinyarwanda
선도옹 동굴Korean
Son DoongLatin
Šondoonas alaLatvian
Sondoong alaLatvian
Cava de Son DoongLingua Franca Nova
ŠondongasLithuanian
SondoongLithuanian
Cueva de Son DoongLombard
Sơn-Đoòng-HöhlLow German
Son DoongMacedo-Romanian
ШондонгMacedonian
Gua Son DoongMalay
സൺ ഡൂങ് ഗുഹMalayalam
Son DoongMaltese
Son DoongNeapolitan
Son DoongNorwegian
Son DoongNorwegian Bokmål
Son DoongNorwegian Nynorsk
Son DoongOccitan (post 1500)
ਸੋਨ ਡੂੰਗ ਗੁਫ਼ਾPanjabi
غار سون دونگPersian
Sơn ĐoòngPolish
Peștera Son DoongRomanian
Cuvel Son DoongRomansh
ШондонгRussian
Сон ДонгSerbian
Hang Sơn ĐoòngSlovak
Son DoongSlovak
Jama Son DoongSlovenian
Sơn ĐoòngSlovenian
Pango la Son DoongSwahili
Hang Son DongSwedish
Son DongSwedish
Sơn ĐoòngSwedish
Son DoongTagalog
Yungib ng Son DoongTagalog
சன் டூங் குகைTamil
సన్ డూంగ్ కేవ్Telugu
ถ้ำเซินด่องThai
ถ้ำมณฑลซานตงThai
Son DoongTurkish
Şondong gowagyTurkmen
ШондонгUkrainian
سون ڈونگ غارUrdu
شیڈونگ غارUrdu
Son Dong gʻoriUzbek
Son Doong g’oriUzbek
Hang Sơn ĐoòngVietnamese
Sơn ĐoòngVietnamese
Son DoongWaray (Philippines)
Son DoongWelsh
Հոնկ Սոն Տունկ քարայրըWestern Armenian
Sơn ĐoòngWestern Frisian
سون ڈونگ غارWestern Panjabi
山水洞Wu Chinese
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