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Don Khon

Don Khon is an island in with cheap accommodation and a more relaxed feeling than .
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  • Type: Island
  • Description: village and island in Si Phan Don archipelago
  • Also known as: “Don Khone”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Don Det and Don Sahong Dam.

Photo: Tango7174, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, is an island in the middle of the Mekong River in in .

Dam
The Don Sahong is a hydroelectric dam commissioned in 2020 on the Mekong River in Siphandone area of Champasak Province, , less than two kilometers upstream of the Laos– border.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ban Nakasang.

or Nakasong, is a small riverside town in . It is one of the main stations for boat and bus services into and out of and Don Khon, the two most popular of the "4,000 Islands".

Don Khon

Latitude
13.9544° or 13° 57′ 16″ north
Longitude
105.9319° or 105° 55′ 55″ east
Elevation
77 metres (253 feet)
Open location code
7P57XW3J+QQ
Open­Street­Map ID
way 32432372
Geo­Names ID
8739716
Wiki­data ID
Q27437765
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Satellite Map

Discover Don Khon from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Ukrainian—“Don Khon” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Don Khon”
  • Chinese: “東闊島”
  • French: “Don Khon”
  • French: “Don Khone”
  • French: “île de Khone”
  • Hebrew: “דון קון”
  • Khmer: “ដន ខន”
  • Lao: “ດອນຄອນ”
  • Swedish: “Don Khon”
  • Ukrainian: “Дон Кхон”
  • Ukrainian: “Дон-Кхон”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Don Khon”. Photo: Basile Morin, CC BY-SA 4.0.