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Silom 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 Silom 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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  • Type: Locality with 45,800 residents
  • Description: district in Bangkok, Thailand
  • Also known as: “Bang Rak” and “Bang Rak district”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sathani Rotfai Krung Thep and Wat Saket.

Railway station
Photo: KarlDubost, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bangkok railway station is a railway station in , the former central passenger terminal in and the former railway hub of . It is in the center of the city in the , and is operated by the State Railway of Thailand.

Buddhist temple
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Ratchawora Mahawihan, commonly known as , is a Buddhist temple in the of , Thailand. The temple dates back to the Ayutthaya period, when it was known as Wat Sakae.

Hospital
, also known locally as Mission Hospital, is a non-profit general hospital with a registered capacity of 200 beds and 24 bassinets, located on Phitsanulok Road in , .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Yaowarat and Phahurat and Siam Square.

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

Silom

Latitude
13.74979° or 13° 44′ 59″ north
Longitude
100.5165° or 100° 30′ 59″ east
Population
45,800
Elevation
11 metres (36 feet)
Open location code
7P52PGX8+WJ
Geo­Names ID
10172964
Wiki­data ID
Q302711
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Silom” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Bang Rak”
  • Albanian: “Bang Rak”
  • Arabic: “منطقة بانج راك”
  • Aragonese: “Bang Rak”
  • Asturian: “Bang Rak”
  • Basque: “Bang Rak”
  • Bavarian: “Bang Rak”
  • Bishnupriya: “খেত ব্যাং রাক”
  • Bosnian: “Bang Rak”
  • Breton: “Bang Rak”
  • Catalan: “Bang Rak”
  • Cebuano: “Khet Bang Rak”
  • Chinese: “挽叻县”
  • Chinese: “挽叻縣”
  • Cornish: “Bang Rak”
  • Corsican: “Bang Rak”
  • Croatian: “Bang Rak”
  • Czech: “Bang Rak”
  • Danish: “Bang Rak”
  • Dutch: “Bang Rak”
  • Dutch: “Silom”
  • Esperanto: “Bang Rak”
  • Estonian: “Bang Rak”
  • Faroese: “Bang Rak”
  • Finnish: “Bang Rak”
  • French: “Bang Rak”
  • Galician: “Bang Rak”
  • German: “Bang Rak”
  • German: “Silom”
  • Hebrew: “באנג ראק (מחוז)”
  • Hebrew: “באנג ראק”
  • Hebrew: “סילום”
  • Hungarian: “Bang Rak”
  • Icelandic: “Bang Rak”
  • Indonesian: “Bang Rak”
  • Irish: “Bang Rak”
  • Italian: “Bang Rak”
  • Italian: “Silom”
  • Japanese: “バーンラック区”
  • Korean: “방락”
  • Lao: “ເຂດບາງຮັກ”
  • Latvian: “Bang Rak”
  • Lithuanian: “Bang Rak”
  • Luxembourgish: “Bang Rak”
  • Maltese: “Bang Rak”
  • Manx: “Bang Rak”
  • Narom: “Bang Rak”
  • Northern Sami: “Bang Rak”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bang Rak”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bang Rak”
  • Norwegian: “Bang Rak”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bang Rak”
  • Piemontese: “Bang Rak”
  • Polish: “Bang Rak”
  • Portuguese: “Bang Rak”
  • Portuguese: “Silom”
  • Romanian: “Bang Rak”
  • Romansh: “Bang Rak”
  • Russian: “Банг-Рак”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Bang Rak”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bang Rak”
  • Slovak: “Bang Rak”
  • Slovenian: “Bang Rak”
  • Spanish: “Bang Rak”
  • Swedish: “Bang Rak”
  • Tahitian: “Bang Rak”
  • Thai: “เขตบางรัก”
  • Turkish: “Bang Rak”
  • Urdu: “بانگ راک ضلع”
  • Vietnamese: “Bang Rak”
  • Walloon: “Bang Rak”
  • Welsh: “Bang Rak”
  • Zulu: “Bang Rak”

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