Kanchanaburi
Kanchanaburi is a town municipality in Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand. The town of lies to the southeast of Erawan National Park within Kanchanaburi Province, approximately 120km west of Bangkok.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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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.
Death Railway Museum and Research Centre
Museum
Photo: Gasson nz, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Thailand–Burma Railway Centre is a museum and research centre in Kanchanaburi, Thailand. It is privately funded and ran by Rod Beattie, an Australian who is an expert in the history of the Thailand–Burma Railway.
The JEATH War Museum
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The JEATH War Museum are two war museums in Kanchanaburi, Thailand 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.
Kanchanaburi railway station
Railway station
Photo: シャムネコ, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kanchanaburi railway station is a main railway station of province of Kanchanaburi located in Ban Tai Subdistrict, Kanchanaburi City, Thailand. It is a class 1 railway station located 117.046 km from Thon Buri railway station, and 77 km away from the Nam Tok railway station, the terminal station.
Kanchanaburi
- Categories: thesaban mueang and locality
- Location: Mueang Kanchanaburi, Kanchanaburi, Thailand, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
14.0227° or 14° 1′ 22″ northLongitude
99.5323° or 99° 31′ 56″ eastPopulation
31,300Elevation
33 metres (108 feet)United Nations Location Code
TH KCBOpen location code
7M6X2GFJ+3WOpenStreetMap ID
node 301331954OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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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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