Ko Samui
Ko Samui, often called just Samui is an island of great natural beauty and variety in the Gulf of Thailand. The palm-fringed shoreline and coconut and fruit cultivation of the coastal lowlands rise to a central granite massif, the slopes of which are cloaked in virgin rainforest.
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Samui South Coast
The South Coast is an area on Ko Samui.Ko Samui
- Type: City with 70,100 residents
- Description: island in the gulf of Thailand
- Also known as: “Amphoe Koh Samui”, “Kau Samui”, “Kaw Samui”, “Koh samui”, “Koh Samui”, “Koh Samuie”, “Kok Samoi Island”, “Samoi”, “Samoi Island”, “Samui island”, “Samuie”, “Smuey”, “קו סאמוי”, “קוסאמוי”, “קוסמוי”, “كوه ساموي”, “เทศบาลนครเกาะสมุย”, “สมุย”, “꼬 사무이”, “사무이”, “코 사무이”, “サムイ”, “テーサバーンナコーン・コ・サムイ”, “蘇美島”, and “阁沙梅岛”
- Categories: island and locality
- Location: Surat Thani Province, Thailand, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
9.5072° or 9° 30′ 26″ north
Longitude of center
99.9958° or 99° 59′ 45″ east
Population
70,100
Elevation
394 metres (1,293 feet)
IATA airport code
USM
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Ko Samui” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Ko Samui”
- Arabic: “جزيرة ساموي”
- Azerbaijani: “Samuy adası”
- Basque: “Ko Samui”
- Belarusian: “Самуй”
- Bishnupriya: “আম্ফোয়ে কো সামুই”
- Bulgarian: “Ко Самуи”
- Burmese: “ကော့စမွီကျွန်း”
- Catalan: “Ko Samui”
- Cebuano: “Ko Samui Island”
- Chinese: “沙湄岛”
- Chinese: “沙湄島”
- Chinese: “苏梅岛”
- Chinese: “蘇梅島”
- Croatian: “Ko Samui”
- Czech: “Ko Samui”
- Danish: “Koh Samui”
- Dutch: “Ko Samui”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جزيره ساموى”
- Estonian: “Samui”
- Finnish: “Ko Samui”
- French: “Ko Samui”
- German: “Ko Samui”
- German: “Samui”
- Hebrew: “קו סמוי”
- Hungarian: “Ko Szamuj”
- Indonesian: “Ko Samui”
- Interlingue: “Ko Samui”
- Irish: “Ko Samui”
- Italian: “Ko Samui”
- Japanese: “サムイ島”
- Kazakh: “Samwï”
- Kazakh: “Самуи”
- Kazakh: “سامۋىي”
- Khmer: “កោះសមុយ”
- Korean: “사무이섬”
- Latvian: “Samui sala”
- Lithuanian: “Samujis”
- Malagasy: “Ko Samui”
- Malay: “Ko Samui”
- Malayalam: “കോ സമൂയി”
- Northern Frisian: “Ko Samui”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ko Samui”
- Norwegian: “Ko Samui”
- Panjabi: “ਕੋ ਸਮੂਈ”
- Persian: “جزیره ساموی”
- Polish: “Ko Samui”
- Portuguese: “Ko Samui”
- Rakhine: “ကော့စမွီကျွန်း”
- Russian: “Самуи”
- Russian: “Самуй”
- Somali: “Ko Samui”
- Spanish: “Ko Samui”
- Swedish: “Ko Samui”
- Swedish: “Koh Samui”
- Thai: “เกาะสมุย สุราษฏร์ธานี”
- Thai: “เกาะสมุย”
- Thai: “อำเภอเกาะสมุย”
- Turkish: “Ko Samui”
- Ukrainian: “Самуї”
- Urdu: “کو ساموی”
- Vietnamese: “Ko Samui”
- Welsh: “Samui”
- Wu Chinese: “苏梅岛”
- Yue Chinese: “蘇梅島”
- “Ko Samui”
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