Kanchanaburi

Kanchanaburi is a town municipality in Kanchanaburi Province, . The town of lies to the southeast of Erawan National Park within Kanchanaburi Province, approximately 120km west of Bangkok.
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  • Type: Town with 31,300 residents
  • Description: town in Kanchanaburi province, Thailand
  • Also known as: Changwat Kanchanaburi”, “Kanburi”, “Kanchana”, “Kanpuri”, “Moeang Kanchana Buri”, and “Muang Kanchana Buri

Places of Interest

Highlights include Death Railway Museum and Research Centre and The JEATH War Museum.

Museum
The Thailand–Burma Railway Centre is a museum and research centre in Kanchanaburi, . It is privately funded and ran by Rod Beattie, an Australian who is an expert in the history of the Thailand–Burma Railway.

Museum
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are two war museums in Kanchanaburi, about the Death Railway, which was built from 1942 to 1943 by Allied POWs under the direction of the Japanese as part of the Thai-Burma railways.

Railway station
is a main railway station of province of Kanchanaburi located in Ban Tai Subdistrict, Kanchanaburi City, . It is a class 1 railway station located 117.046 km from , and 77 km away from the , the terminal station.

Kanchanaburi

Latitude
14.0227° or 14° 1′ 22″ north
Longitude
99.5323° or 99° 31′ 56″ east
Population
31,300
Elevation
33 metres (108 feet)
United Nations Location Code
TH KCB
Open location code
7M6X2GFJ+3W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 301331954
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1153081
Wiki­data ID
Q239121
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Western Panjabi—“Kanchanaburi” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: Kanchanaburi
  • Belarusian: Канчанабуры
  • Bulgarian: Канчанабури
  • Burmese: ကန်ချနာဘူရီ
  • Burmese: ကာဉ္စနပုရီမြို့
  • Cebuano: Kanchanaburi
  • Chinese: 北碧
  • Danish: Kanchanaburi
  • Dutch: Kanchanaburi
  • Finnish: Kanchanaburi
  • French: Kanchanaburi
  • German: Kanchanaburi
  • Hebrew: קנצ’נבורי
  • Hebrew: קנצנבורי
  • Hungarian: Kancsanaburi
  • Italian: Kanchanaburi
  • Japanese: カーンチャナブリー
  • Japanese: カンチャナブリー
  • Kannada: ಕಾಂಚನಬುರಿ
  • Korean: 깐짜나부리
  • Malagasy: Kanchanaburi
  • Malayalam: കാഞ്ചനബുരി
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Kanchanaburi
  • Norwegian: Kanchanaburi
  • Persian: کانتچانابوری
  • Polish: Kanchanaburi
  • Portuguese: Kanchanaburi
  • Russian: Канчанабури
  • Shan: ၵၢၼ်ၸၼပူးရီး
  • Spanish: Kanchanaburi
  • Tamil: காஞ்சனபுரி
  • Telugu: కాంచనబురి
  • Thai: กาญจนบุรี
  • Thai: เทศบาลเมืองกาญจนบุรี
  • Tibetan: ཀཱན་ཅ་ན་བུ་རི།
  • Ukrainian: Канчанабурі
  • Waray (Philippines): Kanchanaburi
  • Western Panjabi: کانچانابوری

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