Ko Yao
Ko Yao, sometimes written Koyao, is a group of islands between Phuket and Krabi. There are two main islands, Ko Yao Noi and Ko Yao Yai, with Noi being the more developed of the two.
- Type: Town with 12,600 residents
- Description: district in Phang Nga province, Thailand
- Also known as: “King Amphoe Ko Yao”, “Ko Yao district”, “Ko Yao kommune”, “เทศบาลตำบลเกาะยาว”, and “อ.เกาะยาว”
Ko Yao
- Categories: amphoe and locality
- Location: Phang Nga Province, Thailand, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
8.1158° or 8° 6′ 57″ north
Longitude
98.5914° or 98° 35′ 29″ east
Population
12,600
Elevation
172 metres (564 feet)
Open location code
6MWW4H8R+8G
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Bishnupriya to Yue Chinese—“Ko Yao” goes by many names.
- Bishnupriya: “আম্ফোয়ে কো য়াও”
- Cebuano: “Amphoe Ko Yao”
- Chinese: “長島縣 (攀牙府)”
- Chinese: “閣堯縣”
- Chinese: “阁尧县”
- French: “Ko Yao”
- German: “Amphoe Ko Yao”
- Italian: “Distretto di Ko Yao”
- Japanese: “ヤーオ島郡”
- Korean: “꼬야오군”
- Literary Chinese: “長島區”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ko Yao Kūn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ko Yao (kommune)”
- Norwegian: “Ko Yao”
- Portuguese: “Ko Yao”
- Romanian: “Districtul Ko Yao”
- Russian: “Ко Яо”
- Spanish: “Ko Yao”
- Thai: “เกาะยาว”
- Thai: “อำเภอเกาะยาว”
- Vietnamese: “Ko Yao”
- Yue Chinese: “閣堯”
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