Lamphun
Lamphun is a town in northern Thailand, capital of Lamphun province. It covers the whole tambon Nai Mueang of Mueang Lamphun district. As of 2006 it has a population of 14,030. Lamphun lies 665 km north of Bangkok and 19 km south of Chiang Mai.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: P.khiao, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 14,000 residents
- Description: town in Lamphun province, Thailand
- Also known as: “Amphoe Muang Lamphun”, “Amphoe Mueang Lamphun”, “Changwat Lamphun”, “Changwat Muang Lamphun”, “Lambhun”, “Lampoon”, “Lampun”, “Muang Lam Poun”, “Muang Lampun”, and “Mueang Lamphun”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wat Phra That Hariphunchai and Wat Cham Thewi.
Wat Phra That Hariphunchai
Buddhist temple
Photo: Hong2101, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wat Phra That Hariphunchai is a Buddhist temple in Lamphun, Thailand. The temple's origins date from the 11th century but the central stupa is thought to originate in the 9th century.
Lamphun
- Categories: thesaban mueang and locality
- Location: Mueang Lamphun, Lamphun Province, Thailand, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
18.5776° or 18° 34′ 40″ northLongitude
99.0069° or 99° 0′ 25″ eastPopulation
14,000Elevation
296 metres (971 feet)United Nations Location Code
TH LPNOpen location code
7MCXH2H4+3QOpenStreetMap ID
node 306247723OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Western Panjabi—“Lamphun” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Lamphun”
- Central Kurdish: “لامپفون”
- Chinese: “南奔”
- Chinese: “南奔市”
- Dutch: “Lamphun”
- Finnish: “Lamphun”
- French: “Lamphun”
- German: “Lamphun”
- Hungarian: “Lamphun”
- Italian: “Lamphun”
- Japanese: “ラムプーン”
- Japanese: “ランプーン”
- Japanese: “ランフン”
- Korean: “람푼”
- Lithuanian: “Lamphunas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lamphun”
- Norwegian: “Lamphun”
- Polish: “Lamphun”
- Russian: “Лампхун”
- Shan: “လမ်းၽုၼ်း”
- Somali: “Lamphun”
- Spanish: “Lamphun”
- Spanish: “Muang Lamphun”
- Thai: “เทศบาลเมืองลำพูน”
- Thai: “ลำพูน”
- Ukrainian: “Лампхун”
- Urdu: “لامپھون”
- Vietnamese: “Lamphun”
- Waray (Philippines): “Lamphun”
- Western Panjabi: “لامپھون”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Lamphun”. Photo: P.khiao, CC BY-SA 4.0.