Kayah State
Loikaw District
Loikaw Township

Loikaw

Loikaw is the largest city and the capital of , also known as Karenni State, 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: city
  • Also known as: “Lwègaw”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Loikaw Airport.

Aerodrome
Photo: Ninjastrikers, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is an airport in Loikaw, . It is the only Airport in . The airport is 2 km North-East of Loikaw with a runway measuring 7002 ft × 100 ft.

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
United Nations Location Code
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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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Loikaw” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “لويكاو”
  • Asturian: “Loikaw”
  • Bengali: “লইকা”
  • Burmese: “လွိုက်ကော်မြို့”
  • Burmese: “လွိုင်ကော်”
  • 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”
  • Hebrew: “לויקו”
  • Hindi: “ल्वाइकौ”
  • Indonesian: “Loikaw”
  • Italian: “Loikaw”
  • Japanese: “ロイコー”
  • Kannada: “ಲೋಯಿಕಾವ್”
  • Korean: “로이코”
  • Korean: “롸잉꼬”
  • Latvian: “Loiko”
  • Lithuanian: “Loikas”
  • Malay: “Loikaw”
  • Marathi: “लोइकॉ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Loikaw”
  • Norwegian: “Loikaw”
  • Pa'o Karen: “ဝေင်ꩻလွယ်ကောႏ”
  • Persian: “لویکاو”
  • Polish: “Loikaw”
  • Polish: “Lwaingkaw”
  • Portuguese: “Loikaw”
  • Russian: “Лойко”
  • Shan: “လွႆၶေႃ၊ ဝဵင်း”
  • Shan: “လွႆၶေႃ”
  • Shan: “ဝဵင်းလွႆၶေႃ”
  • Silesian: “Lwaingkaw”
  • Sinhala: “ලොයිකව්”
  • Spanish: “Loikaw”
  • Swedish: “Loikaw (regionhuvudort i Burma)”
  • Swedish: “Loikaw”
  • Tagalog: “Loikaw”
  • Tamil: “லோயிகா”
  • Tamil: “லோய்கா”
  • Telugu: “లొవికో”
  • Thai: “ลอยกอ”
  • Thai: “ลอยแก้ว”
  • Turkish: “Loikaw”
  • Ukrainian: “Лойко (місто)”
  • Ukrainian: “Лойко”
  • Urdu: “لوئکاؤ”
  • Vietnamese: “Loikaw”

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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 “Loikaw”. Photo: Thuegh, CC BY-SA 4.0.