Champasak
Champasak is a province of Southern Laos. It's best known for a series of Khmer ruins, collectively named a UNESCO World Heritage Site as the Champasak Cultural Landscape.
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- Type: province of Laos with 753,000 residents
- Description: province of Laos
- Also known as: “Bassac”, “Chăm Pa Sắc”, “Champasak (Provinz)”, “Champasak province”, “Champasak Province”, “Champassack”, “Khouèng Champasak”, “Khoueng Champassak”, “Khwaeng Champassak”, “province de Bassac”, “province de Bassaque”, “province de Champasak”, “Province de Champassac”, “Province de Khong”, “Province de Pakse”, “province de Tchamepâssac”, “province de Tchamepâssak”, “province de Tchamepâssaque”, “Tỉnh Champasak”, “చంపాసక్ రాష్ట్రభాగం”, “แขวงจำปาสัก”, “참파삭 주”, and “チャムパーサック県”
- Neighbors: Saravan
- Location: Southern Laos, Laos, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center
14.75° or 14° 45′ north
Longitude of center
106° east
Population
753,000
Elevation
178 metres (584 feet)
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Champasak” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Propinsi Champasak”
- Amharic: “ቻምፓሳክ ክልል”
- Arabic: “محافظة تشامباساك”
- Azerbaijani: “Champasak Province”
- Balinese: “Propinsi Champasak”
- Bengali: “চামপাসাক প্রদেশ”
- Catalan: “Champasak”
- Cebuano: “Champasak”
- Chinese: “占巴塞”
- Chinese: “占巴塞省”
- Chuvash: “Чампасак”
- Croatian: “Čampasak”
- Czech: “Champasak”
- Danish: “Champasak Province”
- Dimli (individual language): “Çampasak (wılayet)”
- Dimli (individual language): “Çampasak”
- Dutch: “Champassak”
- Esperanto: “Provinco Ĉampasako”
- Finnish: “Champasak”
- French: “Champasak”
- French: “Province de Champassak”
- Georgian: “ტიამპასაკის პროვინცია”
- German: “Champasak”
- German: “Provinz Champasak”
- Greek: “Τσαμπασάκ”
- Gujarati: “ચંપાસક પ્રાંત”
- Hausa: “Champasak Province”
- Hebrew: “מחוז צ’אמפסאק”
- Hindi: “चम्पासक प्रान्त”
- Hungarian: “Tjampatszak tartomány”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Champasak”
- Italian: “provincia di Champasak”
- Italian: “Provincia di Champasak”
- Japanese: “チャンパーサック県”
- Javanese: “Champasak Province”
- Kannada: “ಚಂಪಾಸಕ್ ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ”
- Kazakh: “Чампасак облысы”
- Khmer: “ខេត្ត ចំប៉ាសក្តិ”
- Khmer: “ខេត្តចម្ប៉ាស័ក្តិ”
- Kinaray-A: “Kapuudan ka Campāsak”
- Kirghiz: “Чампасак Province”
- Korean: “참빠삭 주”
- Korean: “참파사크주”
- Lao: “ແຂວງຈຳປາສັກ”
- Lao: “ຈຳປາສັກ”
- Latvian: “Čampāsakas province”
- Lithuanian: “Tiampasako provincija”
- Malay: “Wilayah Champasak”
- Marathi: “चंपाकक प्रांत”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Champasak Séng”
- Mongolian: “Чампасак аймаг”
- Mongolian: “Чампасак муж”
- Northern Frisian: “Champasak”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Champasack”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Champasak-fylket”
- Norwegian: “Champasack”
- Oromo: “Champasak Province”
- Panjabi: “ਚਾਮਪਾਸਾਕ ਸੂਬਾ”
- Persian: “استان چامپاساک”
- Polish: “Prowincja Champasak”
- Portuguese: “Champassak”
- Pushto: “چمپاسک ولایت”
- Russian: “Тямпасак”
- Sinhala: “චම්පසක් පළාත”
- Slovenian: “Provinca Čampasak”
- Somali: “Champasak Province”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Campāsak”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Champasak”
- Swahili: “Champasak Province”
- Swedish: “Champasack”
- Swedish: “Champassak”
- Tajik: “Vilojati Campasak”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Чампасак”
- Tamil: “சாம்பசக் மாகாணம்”
- Tatar: “Чампасак провинциясе”
- Telugu: “చంపాసక్ ప్రావిన్స్”
- Thai: “แขวงจำปาศักดิ์”
- Turkish: “Çampasak Bölgesi”
- Turkish: “Çampasak”
- Ukrainian: “Тямпасак”
- Urdu: “چامپاساک صوبہ”
- Uzbek: “Champasak Province”
- Vietnamese: “Champasack”
- Waray (Philippines): “Champasak”
- Welsh: “Talaith Champasak”
- Western Panjabi: “چامپاساک صوبہ”
- Wu Chinese: “占巴塞省”
- Yue Chinese: “占巴塞省”
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