Muang Xay
Muang Xay is the capital of the multi-ethnic Oudomxay Province, in the Nam Ko River Basin and surrounded by scenic mountains. It's the largest city in Northern Laos and, if you're traveling by land, you'll probably end up here at some point.
Photo: Luisah, Public domain.- Type: City with 25,000 residents
- Description: city in Laos
- Also known as: “Mouang Sai”, “Mư̄ang Sai”, “Muong Sai”, “Oudomsay”, “Oudomxai”, “Oudomxay”, “Oudomxay,”, “Udomxai”, “ເມືອງໄຊ”, and “ອຸດົມໄຊ”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Oudomsay Airport and Muang Xai.
Muang Xay
- Categories: human settlement, district of Laos, and locality
- Location: Oudomxai, Northern Laos, Laos, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
20.693° or 20° 41′ 35″ north
Longitude
101.9854° or 101° 59′ 7″ east
Population
25,000
Elevation
652 metres (2,139 feet)
IATA airport code
ODY
United Nations Location Code
LA UON
Open location code
7PG3MXVP+64
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Waray—“Muang Xay” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ሙዋንግ ሳይ”
- Arabic: “مواng ساي”
- Arabic: “موانج إكساي”
- Asturian: “Muang Xay”
- Azerbaijani: “Muang Xay”
- Bengali: “মুওং শাই”
- Bengali: “মুয়াং জাই”
- Bengali: “মুয়াং যাই”
- Burmese: “မိုးဆိုင်”
- Cebuano: “Mư̄ang Sai”
- Cebuano: “Muang Xay”
- Chinese: “孟赛”
- Chinese: “芒賽”
- Chinese: “芒赛”
- Danish: “Muang Xay”
- Dutch: “Muang Xay”
- Egyptian Arabic: “موانج اكساى”
- Esperanto: “Mjuansajo”
- Finnish: “Muang Xay”
- French: “Mư̄ang Sai”
- French: “Muang Xay”
- French: “Muang-Xai”
- French: “Xai”
- Georgian: “საი”
- German: “Muang Xai”
- German: “Muang Xay”
- Greek: “Μουάνγκ Ξάι”
- Gujarati: “મ્યુઆંગ ઝેય”
- Hausa: “Muang Xay”
- Hebrew: “מואנג שי”
- Hindi: “मुआंग साय”
- Indonesian: “Muang Xay”
- Italian: “Miuansai”
- Italian: “Mư̄ang Sai”
- Italian: “Muang Xay”
- Japanese: “ウドムサイ”
- Japanese: “サイ郡”
- Japanese: “ムアンサイ”
- Javanese: “Muang Xay”
- Kannada: “ಮಾಊಂಗ್ ಕ್ಸೇ”
- Kazakh: “Муанг Сай”
- Khmer: “មឿងជ័យ”
- Kinaray-A: “Mư̄ang Sai”
- Kirghiz: “Муанг Сай”
- Korean: “무앙싸이”
- Latvian: “Muangsaja”
- Lithuanian: “Muang Chajus”
- Malay: “Muang Xay”
- Marathi: “म्युआंग क्से”
- Mingrelian: “მუანგსაი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Muang Xay”
- Oromo: “Muang Xay”
- Panjabi: “ਮੁਆਂਗ ਸਾਏ”
- Persian: “موانگ ساه”
- Persian: “موانگ شای”
- Polish: “Muang Xay”
- Portuguese: “Muang Xay”
- Pushto: “مواang ساي”
- Russian: “Муанг Сай”
- Russian: “Муангсай”
- Russian: “Сай”
- Sinhala: “මුවන්ග් එක්සේ”
- Somali: “Muang Xay”
- Spanish: “Mư̄ang Sai”
- Spanish: “Muang Xay”
- Swahili: “Muang Xay”
- Swedish: “Mư̄ang Sai”
- Swedish: “Muang Xay”
- Tajik: “Муанг Сай”
- Tamil: “மியூஆங்செ”
- Tatar: “Муанг Сай”
- Telugu: “ముఅంగ్ జై”
- Thai: “เมืองไซ”
- Turkish: “Muang Xay”
- Ukrainian: “Муанг-Сай”
- Ukrainian: “Удомсай”
- Urdu: “موانگ سائے”
- Urdu: “موانگ ساے”
- Uzbek: “Muang Xay”
- Vietnamese: “Muang Xay”
- Waray (Philippines): “Mư̄ang Sai”
- Waray (Philippines): “Muang Xai”
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