Loikaw

Loikaw is the largest city and the capital of , in . It is located in the Karen Hills area, near the State's northern tip, just above an embayment on the Pilu River.
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  • Type: City with 17,300 residents
  • Description: capital settlement of Kayah State, Myanmar
  • Also known as: “Lwègaw” and “လွိုက်ကော်မြို့”
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Places of Interest

Highlights: Loikaw Airport.

Aerodrome
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is an airport in Loikaw, .

Loikaw

Latitude
19.6742° or 19° 40′ 27″ north
Longitude
97.2094° or 97° 12′ 34″ east
Population
17,300
Elevation
2,930 feet (893 metres)
IATA airport code
LIW
UN/LOCODE
MM LIW
Open location code
7MFVM6F5+MQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26576174
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1313479
Wiki­data ID
Q1017971
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Vietnamese—“Loikaw” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ሎይካ”
  • Arabic: “لويكاو”
  • Asturian: “Loikaw”
  • Azerbaijani: “Loikaw”
  • Basque: “Loikaw”
  • Bengali: “লইকা”
  • Bengali: “লইকাও”
  • Burmese: “လွိုင်ကော်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Loi-kaw”
  • Cebuano: “Loikaw (kapital sa rehiyon sa Burma)”
  • Cebuano: “Loikaw”
  • Chinese: “垒固”
  • Chinese: “壘固”
  • Danish: “Loikaw”
  • Dutch: “Loikaw”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لويكاو”
  • Finnish: “Loikaw”
  • French: “Loikaw”
  • German: “Loi-kaw”
  • German: “Loikaw”
  • Greek: “Λοϊκάου”
  • Gujarati: “લોઈકો”
  • Hausa: “Loikaw”
  • Hebrew: “לויקו”
  • Hindi: “लोइकॉ”
  • Hindi: “ल्वाइकौ”
  • Indonesian: “Loikaw”
  • Italian: “Loikaw”
  • Japanese: “ロイカー”
  • Japanese: “ロイコー”
  • Javanese: “Loikaw”
  • Kannada: “ಲೋಯಿಕಾವ್”
  • Kazakh: “Лойкаун”
  • Kirghiz: “Лойкаун”
  • Korean: “로이코”
  • Korean: “롸잉꼬”
  • Latin: “Loecauum”
  • Latvian: “Loiko”
  • Lithuanian: “Loikas”
  • Malay: “Loikaw”
  • Marathi: “लोइकॉ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Loikaw”
  • Norwegian: “Loikaw”
  • Oromo: “Loikaw”
  • Pa'o Karen: “ဝေင်ꩻလွယ်ကောႏ”
  • Panjabi: “ਲੋਇਕਾਓ”
  • Persian: “لویکاو”
  • Polish: “Lwaingkaw”
  • Portuguese: “Loikaw”
  • Pushto: “لويكاو”
  • Russian: “Лойко”
  • Shan: “လွႆၶေႃ”
  • Shan: “ဝဵင်းလွႆၶေႃ”
  • Silesian: “Lwaingkaw”
  • Sinhala: “ලොයිකව්”
  • Somali: “Loikaw”
  • Spanish: “Loikaw”
  • Swahili: “Loikaw”
  • Swedish: “Loikaw (regionhuvudort i Burma)”
  • Swedish: “Loikaw”
  • Tagalog: “Loikaw”
  • Tajik: “Loykau”
  • Tamil: “லோயிகா”
  • Tamil: “லோய்கா”
  • Tatar: “Loikaw”
  • Telugu: “లొవికో”
  • Thai: “ลอยกอ”
  • Thai: “ลอยแก้ว”
  • Turkish: “Loikaw”
  • Ukrainian: “Лойко (місто)”
  • Ukrainian: “Лойко”
  • Urdu: “لوئکاؤ”
  • Urdu: “لویکاؤ”
  • Uzbek: “Loikaw”
  • Vietnamese: “Loikaw”

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