Phuket Town

Phuket is a city in the southeast of Phuket Island, Thailand, and the capital of . As of 2024 the city municipality had a population of 71,284 and an urban population of 252,515 in the entire district of .
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  • Type: City with 79,300 residents
  • Description: city in Phuket province, Thailand
  • Also known as: “Amphoe Muang Phuket”, “Bhuket”, “Changwat Phuket”, “Phuket”, “Tongka”, and “Tongkah”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Vachira Phuket Hospital and Phuket Thai Hua Museum.

Hospital
is the main hospital of Phuket Province, and is classified under the Ministry of Public Health as a regional hospital.

Museum
Photo: Supanut Arunoprayote, CC BY 4.0.

Buddhist temple
Photo: Eustaquio Santimano, CC BY 2.0.
is a Buddhist temple.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Phuket Old Town.

Neighborhood
Photo: Mussi Katz, CC0.
The Old Town is an area of historical interest in the city of Phuket. The main streets of Old Town are Thalang, Phang Nga, Krabi, Dibuk, and Yoawarat. Old Town is noted for Sino-Portuguese buildings on both sides of the street.

Phuket Town

Latitude
7.8848° or 7° 53′ 5″ north
Longitude
98.3892° or 98° 23′ 21″ east
Population
79,300
Elevation
28 metres (92 feet)
IATA airport code
HKT
United Nations Location Code
TH HKT
Open location code
6MVWV9MQ+WM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 252057835
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1151254
Wiki­data ID
Q844430
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Phuket Town” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بوكيت”
  • Arabic: “فوكيت”
  • Armenian: “Պհուկետ (քաղաք)”
  • Armenian: “Պհուկետ”
  • Asturian: “Phuket”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pxuket”
  • Balinese: “Phuket”
  • Belarusian: “Пхукет”
  • Bengali: “ফুকেট”
  • Bengali: “ফুকেত”
  • Bulgarian: “Пукет”
  • Burmese: “ဖူးခက်”
  • Burmese: “ဖူးခတ်”
  • Catalan: “Phuket”
  • Cebuano: “Phuket”
  • Chinese: “布吉市”
  • Chinese: “普吉市”
  • Czech: “Phuket”
  • Danish: “Phuket”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Phuket”
  • Dutch: “Phuket”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بوكيت”
  • Esperanto: “Puketo”
  • Finnish: “Phuket”
  • French: “Île de Phuket”
  • French: “Phuket”
  • Georgian: “ფუკეტი”
  • Georgian: “ფხუკეტი”
  • German: “Phuket”
  • Greek: “Πουκέτ”
  • Gujarati: “ફુકેટ”
  • Hebrew: “פוקט סיטי”
  • Hebrew: “פוקט”
  • Hindi: “फुकेत”
  • Hindi: “फूकेत”
  • Hungarian: “Phuket”
  • Indonesian: “Phuket”
  • Italian: “città di Phuket”
  • Italian: “Phuket”
  • Japanese: “テーサバーンナコーン・プーケット”
  • Japanese: “プーケット”
  • Kannada: “ಫುಕೆಟ್”
  • Komering: “Phuket”
  • Korean: “푸껫 시”
  • Korean: “푸껫”
  • Korean: “푸껫시”
  • Korean: “푸켓 시”
  • Korean: “푸켓”
  • Latvian: “Puketa”
  • Lithuanian: “Phuket”
  • Lithuanian: “Phuketas”
  • Malay: “Phuket”
  • Marathi: “फुकेट”
  • Marathi: “फूकेट”
  • Northern Frisian: “Phuket”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Phuket”
  • Norwegian: “Phuket”
  • Ossetian: “Пукет”
  • Ossetian: “Пхукет”
  • Persian: “شهر فوکت”
  • Polish: “Phuket”
  • Portuguese: “Phuket”
  • Romanian: “Phuket”
  • Russian: “Пхукет”
  • Sinhala: “ෆුකට්”
  • Slovenian: “Phuket”
  • Spanish: “Phuket”
  • Swedish: “Phuket city”
  • Swedish: “Phuket town”
  • Swedish: “Phuket”
  • Tagalog: “Phuket”
  • Tamil: “புக்கிட்”
  • Tamil: “புக்கெட்”
  • Tatar: “Пукет”
  • Telugu: “ఫుకేట్”
  • Thai: “เทศบาลนครภูเก็ต”
  • Thai: “เทศบาลเมืองภูเก็ต”
  • Thai: “ภูเก็ต”
  • Tibetan: “པུ་ཁེཊ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར །”
  • Tibetan: “པུ་ཁེཊ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར​།”
  • Tibetan: “པུ་ཁེཊ།”
  • Turkish: “Phuket”
  • Ukrainian: “Пхукет”
  • Urdu: “پھوکیت”
  • Vietnamese: “Phu Kẹt”
  • Vietnamese: “Phuket”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Phuket”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Phuket”
  • Western Panjabi: “پھوکٹ”
  • Wu Chinese: “布吉镇”
  • Wu Chinese: “普吉市”
  • Wu Chinese: “普吉镇”
  • Yue Chinese: “布吉市”
  • Yue Chinese: “布吉鎮”
  • Yue Chinese: “布吉镇”

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