Mae Sot
Mae Sot is in Tak Province, Thailand at an elevation of around 210 m. It is a trade hub and has a substantial population of Burmese migrants and refugees.
- Type: City with 41,400 residents
- Description: city in Tak province, Thailand
- Also known as: “Amphoe Ban Mae Sot”, “Amphoe Mae Saut”, “Amphoe Mae Sot”, “Amphoe Mesoht”, “Ban Mae Sot”, “Ban Me Ramat”, “Ban Me Sohd”, “Ban Mesod”, “Branch Amphoe Mē Sōhd”, “Mae Saut”, “Mae Sord”, “Mae Sot City Municipality”, “Mehsord”, “Mesod”, “Mēsoht”, “Mesort”, “ทต.แม่สอด”, “ทม.มส.”, “เทศบาลตำบลแม่สอด”, “เทศบาลเมืองแม่สอด”, “สภาตำบลแม่สอด”, “องค์การบริหารส่วนตำบลแม่สอด”, and “อบต.แม่สอด”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Mae Sot Airport and Wat Chumphon Khiri.
Mae Sot Airport
Aerodrome
Mae Sot Airport is in Tambon Tha Sai Luat, Amphoe Mae Sot, Tak province in Northern Thailand.
Wat Chumphon Khiri
Buddhist temple
Photo: Dl4gbe, Public domain.
Mae Sot
- Categories: thesaban nakhon, thesaban mueang, subdistrict municipality, border city, and locality
- Location: Mae Sot, Tak Province, Thailand, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
16.715° or 16° 42′ 54″ north
Longitude
98.5696° or 98° 34′ 10″ east
Population
41,400
Elevation
213 metres (699 feet)
IATA airport code
MAQ
Open location code
7M8WPH79+XR
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Burmese to Urdu—“Mae Sot” goes by many names.
- Burmese: “မဲဆောက်”
- Burmese: “မဲဆောက်မြို့”
- Catalan: “Mae Sot”
- Cebuano: “Mae Sot”
- Chinese: “湄索”
- Danish: “Mae Sot”
- Dutch: “Mae Sot”
- French: “Mae Sot”
- German: “Mae Sot”
- Italian: “Mae Sot”
- Japanese: “テーサバーンナコーン・メーソート”
- Japanese: “メーソート”
- Japanese: “メーソット”
- Khmer: “ម៉ែសត”
- Korean: “매솟”
- Lithuanian: “Mesotas”
- Malagasy: “Mae Sot”
- Malayalam: “മായെ സോട്ട്”
- Mon: “မာဲဆံက်၊ ဍုင် မနွံပ္ဍဲ နိဂီုသေံလပါ်ပလိုတ်”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mae Sot”
- Norwegian: “Mae Sot”
- Polish: “Mae Sot”
- Russian: “Мае Сот”
- Scots: “Mae Sot”
- Shan: “မႄႈသွတ်ႇ”
- Spanish: “Mae Sot”
- Thai: “เทศบาลนครแม่สอด”
- Thai: “แม่สอด”
- Urdu: “مائے سوت”
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