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Bangkok

Bangkok is the capital and largest city of . 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.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Sukhumvit and Silom.

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is a high-end area in Bangkok with fancy condominiums, hotels, restaurants, bars and clubs. It has attracted affluent Thais and expats from all over the world.

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is the closest Bangkok gets to Wall Street, with glistening skyscrapers all boasting the names of financial institutions. However, the character of the area changes after nightfall: the small sois between Road and Surawong Road come alive with people who are out for a good time, and Patpong's well-known "red light" district is often a sought-out location.

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, also known as Island, is the historic centre of Bangkok, where most of Bangkok's "must see" sights can be found, including the Grand Palace and Wat Pho.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Khao San Road and Yaowarat and Phahurat.

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is a small road about a block from the Chao Phraya River at the northern side of . Backpackers and budget travellers are drawn here by some of the cheapest accommodation and travel deals in Thailand.

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is Bangkok's multicultural district, located west of and southeast of . Yaowarat Road is the home of Bangkok's sizeable Chinese community, while those of Indian ethnicity have congregated around Phahurat Road.

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is a vast district that consists of the entire west bank of the Chao Phraya River in Bangkok. After the sack of in 1767, General Phraya Taksin made the new capital of Siam for a brief period of time.

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area is Bangkok's main shopping drag and its BTS Skytrain station is often considered as the centre of the city. This article expands the area to include Ratchaprasong, Phloen Chit Road and Chulalongkorn University.

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is centred around Road, a major arterial road that starts at Victory Monument and runs parallel to and eventually merges with Viphavadi Rangsit Road in the north of Bangkok.

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is a shopping district in Bangkok. It is a major market area with thousands of fashion stores that sell wholesale with cheap prices guaranteed, especially if you buy in bulk.

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is a leafy, European-style district of Bangkok that functions as the political centre of Thailand. Its development dates back to the early 1900s, when King Rama V built the Palace, a complex of palaces and royal residences he created to escape the heat and chaos of the Grand Palace.

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is the district that follows the northeastern portion of Road. It is north of , east of and west of .

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is a vast district that lies along Road, a major arterial road in east Bangkok. The area could be considered a suburb and is almost completely unknown to foreign travellers, with the notable exception of Suvarnabhumi Airport.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Grand Palace and Wat Phra Kaew.

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The is a complex of buildings at the heart of Bangkok, Thailand. The palace has been the official residence of the Kings of Siam since 1782.

Buddhist temple
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, commonly known in English as the Temple of the Emerald Buddha and officially as Wat Phra Si Rattana Satsadaram, is regarded as the most sacred Buddhist temple in .

Buddhist temple
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Ratchawararam Ratchawaramahawihan or is a in the Bangkok Yai district of Bangkok, . It is situated on on the west bank of the .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bang Phlat and Taling Chan.

Suburb
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is one of the 50 districts of Bangkok, . Its neighboring districts, clockwise from the north, are , , , , , and .

Suburb
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is one of the 50 districts of Bangkok, . Its neighbours, clockwise from the north, are of and , , , , , and Districts of Bangkok.

Suburb
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or Sathorn, is a district of Bangkok, , one of fifty into which the city is divided. Situated along the in central Bangkok, Sathorn is home to numerous intergovernmental organizations, foreign embassies, and Southeast Asian offices of multinational corporations.

Bangkok

Latitude
13.7525° or 13° 45′ 9″ north
Longitude
100.4935° or 100° 29′ 37″ east
Population
5,670,000
Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)
IATA airport code
BKK
United Nations Location Code
TH BKK
Open location code
7P52QF2V+XC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1628207792
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1609350
Wiki­data ID
Q1861
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Bangkok” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Bangkok”
  • Afrikaans: “Bangkok”
  • Albanian: “Bangkok”
  • Albanian: “Bangkoku”
  • Amharic: “ባንኮክ”
  • Amharic: “ባንግኮክ”
  • Arabic: “بانكوك”
  • Aragonese: “Bangkok”
  • Armenian: “Բանգկոկ”
  • Arpitan: “Bangkok”
  • Assamese: “বেংকক”
  • Asturian: “Bangkok”
  • Azerbaijani: “Banqkok”
  • Balinese: “Bangkok”
  • Bambara: “Bangkok”
  • Banjar: “Bangkok”
  • Bashkir: “Бангкок”
  • Basque: “Bangkok”
  • Batak Mandailing: “Bangkok”
  • Belarusian: “Бангкок”
  • Bengali: “ব্যাংকক”
  • Betawi: “Bangkok”
  • Bhojpuri: “बैंकाक”
  • Bishnupriya: “চাংৱাত ব্যাংকক”
  • Bislama: “Bangkok”
  • Bosnian: “Bangkok”
  • Breton: “Bangkok”
  • Bulgarian: “Банкок”
  • Burmese: “ဘန်ကောက်”
  • Burmese: “ဘန်ကောက်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Bangkok”
  • Cebuano: “Bangkok”
  • Central Bikol: “Bangkok”
  • Central Kanuri: “Bangkok”
  • Central Kurdish: “بانکۆک”
  • Chavacano: “Bangkok”
  • Chechen: “Бангкок”
  • Cheyenne: “Bangkok”
  • Chinese: “Bangkok”
  • Chinese: “Màngǔ”
  • Chinese: “恭貼瑪哈納空”
  • Chinese: “恭贴”
  • Chinese: “恭贴玛哈纳空”
  • Chinese: “曼谷”
  • Chinese: “泰京”
  • Chuvash: “Бангкок”
  • Cornish: “Bangkok”
  • Corsican: “Bangkok”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Bangkok”
  • Croatian: “Bangkok”
  • Czech: “Bangkok”
  • Danish: “Bangkok”
  • Danish: “Krung Thep Maha Nakhon”
  • Danish: “Krung Thep”
  • Danish: “Krungthepmahanakhon Amonrattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilokphop Noppharatratchathaniburirom Udomratchaniwetmahasathan Amonphimanawatansathit Sakkathattiyawitsanukamprasit”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Bangkok”
  • Dotyali: “बैङ्कक”
  • Dutch: “Bangkok”
  • Dutch: “Krung Thep Maha Nakhon”
  • Dutch: “Krung Thep”
  • Dutch: “Krungthepmahanakhon Amonrattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilokphop Noppharatratchathaniburirom Udomratchaniwetmahasathan Amonphimanawatansathit Sakkathattiyawitsanukamprasit”
  • Eastern Mari: “Бангкок”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بانكوك”
  • Erzya: “Бангкок ош”
  • Erzya: “Бангкок”
  • Esperanto: “Bangkoko”
  • Esperanto: “Bankoko”
  • Estonian: “Bangkok”
  • Extremaduran: “Bangkok”
  • Faroese: “Bangkok”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Bangkok”
  • Fijian: “Bangkok”
  • Finnish: “Bangkok”
  • French: “Bangkok”
  • French: “Krung Thep Maha Nakhon”
  • French: “Krung Thep”
  • French: “Krungthep mahanakhon amon rattanakosin mahintara ayuthaya mahadilok phop noppharat ratchathani burirom udomratchaniwet mahasathan amon piman awatan sathit sakkathattiya witsanukam prasit”
  • French: “Krungthepmahanakhon Amonrattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilokphop Noppharatratchathaniburirom Udomratchaniwetmahasathan Amonphimanawatansathit Sakkathattiyawitsanukamprasit”
  • Friulian: “Bangkok”
  • Galician: “Bangkok”
  • Galician: “Krung Thep Maha Nakhon”
  • Georgian: “ბანგკოკი”
  • German: “Bangkok”
  • German: “Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Bangkok”
  • Greek: “Μπανγκόκ”
  • Guarani: “Vãkoke”
  • Gujarati: “બેંગકોક”
  • Haitian: “Bangkok”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Bangkok”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Màn-kuk”
  • Hausa: “Bangkok”
  • Hebrew: “בנגקוק”
  • Hindi: “बैंकॉक”
  • Hungarian: “Bangkok”
  • Iban: “Bangkok”
  • Icelandic: “Bangkok”
  • Ido: “Bangkok”
  • Igala: “Bangkok”
  • Igbo: “Bangkok”
  • Iloko: “Bangkok”
  • Inari Sami: “Bangkok”
  • Indonesian: “Bangkok”
  • Ingush: “Бангкок”
  • Interlingua: “Bangkok”
  • Interlingue: “Banghok”
  • Interlingue: “Bangkok”
  • Irish: “Bancác”
  • Italian: “Bangkok”
  • Italian: “Krung Thep Maha Nakhon”
  • Japanese: “クルンテープマハーナコーン”
  • Japanese: “クルンテプ”
  • Japanese: “クンテープ”
  • Japanese: “バンコーク”
  • Japanese: “バンコク”
  • Japanese: “バンコック”
  • Japanese: “天使の都”
  • Japanese: “曼谷”
  • Japanese: “盤谷”
  • Javanese: “Bangkok”
  • Kabiyè: “Pankɔkɩ”
  • Kabiyè: “Paŋkɔkɩ”
  • Kabyle: “Bangkok”
  • Kalaallisut: “Bangkok”
  • Kalmyk: “Бангкок балһсн”
  • Kannada: “ಬಾಂಗ್ಕೊಕ್”
  • Kannada: “ಬ್ಯಾಂಕಾಕ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Bangkok”
  • Kashmiri: “بینٛگ کوک”
  • Kazakh: “Бангкок”
  • Kazakh: “Крун Тхеп”
  • Kazakh: “Крунтеп”
  • Khmer: “បាងកក”
  • Kildin Sami: “Бангкок”
  • Kirghiz: “Бангкок”
  • Komering: “Bangkok”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Бангкок”
  • Komi: “Бангкок”
  • Korean: “끄룽텝 마하나콘”
  • Korean: “끄룽텝”
  • Korean: “방콕”
  • Kurdish: “Bangkok”
  • Ladino: “Bangkok”
  • Lao: “ກຸງເທບມະຫານະຄອນ”
  • Lao: “ບາງກອກ”
  • Latin: “Bancocum”
  • Latin: “Bāncōcum”
  • Latvian: “Bangkoka”
  • Lezghian: “Бангкок”
  • Ligurian: “Bangkòk”
  • Limburgan: “Bangkok”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Bangcoc”
  • Literary Chinese: “曼谷”
  • Lithuanian: “Bankokas”
  • Livvi: “Bangkok”
  • Lombard: “Bangkok”
  • Low German: “Bangkok”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Bangkok”
  • Lule Sami: “Bangkok”
  • Luxembourgish: “Bangkok”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Bangkok”
  • Macedonian: “Бангкок”
  • Maithili: “बैङ्कक”
  • Malagasy: “Bangkok”
  • Malay: “Bangkok”
  • Malayalam: “ബാങ്കോക്ക്”
  • Maltese: “Bangkok”
  • Marathi: “बँकॉक”
  • Mazanderani: “بانکوک”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Bangkok”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Màng-gók”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bangkok”
  • Minangkabau: “Bangkok”
  • Mingrelian: “ბანგკოკი”
  • Mirandese: “Banguecoque”
  • Moksha: “Бангкок”
  • Mongolian: “Бангкок”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “بانكوك”
  • Navajo: “Chʼiltah Tábąąhkin”
  • Nepali: “बैङ्कक”
  • Newari: “बैंकक”
  • Northern Frisian: “Bangkok”
  • Northern Luri: “بانکوک”
  • Northern Sami: “Bangkok”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bangkok”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bangkok”
  • Norwegian: “Bangkok”
  • Novial: “Bangkok”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Bangkok”
  • Nyanja: “Bangkok”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bangkòk”
  • Oriya: “ବେଙ୍କକ”
  • Oriya: “ବ୍ୟାଙ୍କକ”
  • Ossetian: “Бангкок”
  • Pa'o Karen: “ဝေင်ꩻဗန်ကောက်”
  • Panjabi: “ਬੈਂਕਾਕ”
  • Papiamento: “Bangkok”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Bangkok”
  • Persian: “بانکوک”
  • Piemontese: “Bangkok”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Bangkok”
  • Pite Sami: “Bangkok”
  • Polish: “Bangkok”
  • Portuguese: “Bancoque”
  • Portuguese: “Bangkok”
  • Portuguese: “Banguecoque”
  • Pushto: “بانکوک”
  • Pushto: “بانګکوک”
  • Quechua: “Bangkok”
  • Romanian: “Bangkok”
  • Russia Buriat: “Бангкок”
  • Russian: “Бангкок”
  • Rusyn: “Банкок”
  • Sakizaya: “Man-ku”
  • Samogitian: “Bankoks”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱮᱝᱠᱚᱠ”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱮᱝᱠᱳᱠ”
  • Sardinian: “Bangkok”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Bangkok”
  • Scots: “Bangkok”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Bangkok”
  • Serbian: “Бангкок”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bangkok”
  • Shan: “ၵုင်းထဵပ်ႈ”
  • Shona: “Bangkok”
  • Sicilian: “Bangkok”
  • Silesian: “Bangkok”
  • Sindhi: “بئنڪاڪ”
  • Sindhi: “بانڪوڪ”
  • Sindhi: “بنڪاڪ”
  • Sindhi: “بينڪاڪ”
  • Sinhala: “බැංකොක්”
  • Skolt Sami: “Bangkok”
  • Slovak: “Bangkok”
  • Slovenian: “Bangkok”
  • Somali: “Bangkok”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بانکوک”
  • Southern Sami: “Bangkok”
  • Spanish: “Bancoc”
  • Spanish: “Bangkok”
  • Sundanese: “Bangkok”
  • Swahili: “Bangkok”
  • Swedish: “Bangkok”
  • Swiss German: “Bangkok”
  • Tagalog: “Bangkok”
  • Tajik: “Бангкок”
  • Talysh: “Bangkok”
  • Tamil: “பாங்காக்”
  • Tamil: “பாங்கொக்”
  • Tamil: “பெங்காக்”
  • Tamil: “பேங்காக்”
  • Tatar: “Bangkok”
  • Tatar: “Бангкок”
  • Telugu: “బ్యాంకాక్”
  • Thai: “กท.”
  • Thai: “กทม.”
  • Thai: “กรุงเทพ”
  • Thai: “กรุงเทพพระมหานคร”
  • Thai: “กรุงเทพมหานคร บวรรัตนโกสินทร์”
  • Thai: “กรุงเทพมหานคร อมรรัตนโกสินทร์ มหินทรายุธยา มหาดิลกภพ นพรัตนราชธานีบูรีรมย์ อุดมราชนิเวศน์มหาสถาน อมรพิมานอวตารสถิต สักกะทัตติยวิษณุกรรมประสิทธิ์”
  • Thai: “กรุงเทพมหานคร”
  • Thai: “กรุงเทพฯ”
  • Thai: “นครหลวงกรุงเทพธนบุรี”
  • Thai: “บางกอก”
  • Thai: “บางมะกอก”
  • Thai: “พระนคร”
  • Tibetan: “པན་ཀོག”
  • Tok Pisin: “Bangkok”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Bangkok”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Bangkok”
  • Tumbuka: “Bangkok”
  • Turkish: “Bangkok”
  • Turkmen: “Bangkok”
  • Twi: “Bangkok”
  • Udmurt: “Бангкок”
  • Uighur: “Bangkok”
  • Uighur: “باڭكوك”
  • Uighur: “بانگكوك”
  • Ukrainian: “Бангкок”
  • Ukrainian: “Банґкок”
  • Ume Sami: “Bangkok”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Bangkok”
  • Urdu: “بنکاک”
  • Urdu: “بینکاک”
  • Uzbek: “Bangkok”
  • Venetian: “Bancòc”
  • Venetian: “Bangkok”
  • Veps: “Bankok”
  • Vietnamese: “Băng Cốc”
  • Vietnamese: “Bangkok”
  • Vlaams: “Bangkok”
  • Volapük: “Bangkok”
  • Võro: “Bangkok”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bangkok”
  • Welsh: “Bangkok”
  • Welsh: “Krung Thep Mahanakhon”
  • Western Armenian: “Պանկքոք”
  • Western Armenian: “Պանքոք”
  • Western Frisian: “Bangkok”
  • Western Panjabi: “بنکاک”
  • Western Panjabi: “بینکاک”
  • Wu Chinese: “曼谷”
  • Xhosa: “Bangkok”
  • Yakut: “Баҥкок”
  • Yiddish: “באנגקאק”
  • Yiddish: “באַנקאָק”
  • Yoruba: “Bangkok”
  • Yue Chinese: “恭貼”
  • Yue Chinese: “恭貼瑪哈那空”
  • Yue Chinese: “暹京”
  • Yue Chinese: “曼谷”
  • Yue Chinese: “泰京”
  • Yue Chinese: “濱角”
  • Zeeuws: “Bangkok”
  • Zhuang: “Manguz”
  • Zulu: “i-Bangkok”
  • “Bangkok”
  • “Bankoks”
  • “ma Kunte”
  • “ma Kuntemawanakon”
  • “ma Kuntemawanakon Amonlatanakosin Mawintalajutaja Mawasilopo Nopalalasatanipulilon Utonlasaniwemawasatan Amonpimanawatansasi Sakatasijawisanukanpasi”
  • “ma tomo Kunte”
  • “ma tomo Kuntemawanakon”
  • “ma tomo Kuntemawanakon Amonlatanakosin Mawintalajutaja Mawasilopo Nopalalasatanipulilon Utonlasaniwemawasatan Amonpimanawatansasi Sakatasijawisanukanpasi”
  • “बैंकाक”

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