Kanchanaburi

Kanchanaburi is a town municipality in Kanchanaburi Province, . The town of lies to the southeast of within Kanchanaburi Province, approximately 120km west of Bangkok.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Erawan National Park and Chaloem Rattanakosin National Park.

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is in Kanchanaburi of . It is known for the seven-level Erawan Falls and is one of the most visited waterfalls in Thailand.

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is in Kanchanaburi, . The national park is part of the larger Western Forest Complex, while relatively small, is famous for its caves, lush jungles and waterfalls.

Places of Interest

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

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

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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
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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 Amharic to Western Panjabi—“Kanchanaburi” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ካንቻናቡሪ”
  • Arabic: “กาญจนบุรี”
  • Asturian: “Kanchanaburi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kançanaburi”
  • Belarusian: “Канчанабуры”
  • Bengali: “কাঞ্চনপুরী”
  • Bengali: “কাঞ্চনাবুরী”
  • Bulgarian: “Канчанабури”
  • Burmese: “ကန်ချနာဘူရီ”
  • Burmese: “ကာဉ္စနပုရီမြို့”
  • Cebuano: “Kanchanaburi”
  • Chinese: “北碧”
  • Chinese: “干乍那武里”
  • Danish: “Kanchanaburi”
  • Dutch: “Kanchanaburi”
  • Finnish: “Kanchanaburi”
  • French: “Kanchanaburi”
  • German: “Kanchanaburi”
  • Hausa: “Kanchanaburi”
  • Hebrew: “קנצ’נבורי”
  • Hebrew: “קנצנבורי”
  • Hindi: “कंचनबुरी”
  • Hungarian: “Kancsanaburi”
  • Indonesian: “Kanchanaburi”
  • Italian: “Kanchanaburi”
  • Japanese: “カーンチャナブリー”
  • Japanese: “カンチャナブリー”
  • Javanese: “Kanchanaburi”
  • Kannada: “ಕಾಂಚನಬುರಿ”
  • Kazakh: “Канчанабурі”
  • Kirghiz: “Канчанабурі”
  • Korean: “깐짜나부리”
  • Malagasy: “Kanchanaburi”
  • Malay: “Kanchanaburi”
  • Malayalam: “കാഞ്ചനബുരി”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kanchanaburi”
  • Norwegian: “Kanchanaburi”
  • Oromo: “Kanchanaburi”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੰਚਨਾਬੁਰੀ”
  • Persian: “کانتچانابوری”
  • Persian: “کنچانبوری”
  • Polish: “Kanchanaburi”
  • Portuguese: “Kanchanaburi”
  • Pushto: “کنچنابري”
  • Rakhine: “ကာဉ္စနပုရီမြို့”
  • Russian: “Канчанабури”
  • Shan: “ၵၢၼ်ၸၼပူးရီး”
  • Somali: “Kanchanaburi”
  • Spanish: “Kanchanaburi”
  • Swahili: “Kanchanaburi”
  • Tajik: “Канчанабурі”
  • Tamil: “காஞ்சனபுரி”
  • Tatar: “Канчанабурі”
  • Telugu: “కాంచనబురి”
  • Thai: “กาญจนบุรี”
  • Thai: “เทศบาลเมืองกาญจนบุรี”
  • Tibetan: “ཀཱན་ཅ་ན་བུ་རི།”
  • Turkish: “Kanchanaburi”
  • Ukrainian: “Канчанабурі”
  • Urdu: “کانچنابوری”
  • Urdu: “کنچھنابری”
  • Uzbek: “Kanchanaburi”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kanchanaburi”
  • Western Panjabi: “کانچانابوری”

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