Nan
Nan is a town in the remote valley of the Nan River in the Northern River Valleys region of Northern Thailand, bordering Laos. The area is heavily forested with arable land used mainly for agriculture.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Takeaway, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Takeaway, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 25,000 residents
- Description: town in Nan province, Thailand
- Also known as: “Amphoe Muang Nam”, “Amphoe Mueang Nam”, “Ban Muang Nan”, “Changwat Muang Nan”, “Changwat Nan”, “Changwat Nana”, “Muang Nan”, “Mueang Nan”, “Nagor Nan”, and “Nan, Thailand”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Nan National Museum and Wat Phumin.
Wat Phumin
Buddhist temple
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 1.0.
The city of Nan's most famous wat is renowned for its cruciform ubosot which was constructed in 1596 and restored during the reign of Phra Chao Anantaworritthidet.
Nan Provincial Sport Stadium
Sports venue
Photo: Wikimedia, Copyrighted free use.
Nan Provincial Administrative Organization Stadium or Nan Province Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Nan Province, Thailand. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Nan F.C. The stadium holds 2,500 people.
Nan
- Categories: thesaban mueang and locality
- Location: Mueang Nan District, Nan Province, Thailand, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
18.7779° or 18° 46′ 40″ northLongitude
100.7737° or 100° 46′ 25″ eastPopulation
25,000Elevation
205 metres (673 feet)IATA airport code
NNTOpen location code
7PC2QQHF+5FOpenStreetMap ID
node 924671402OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Waray—“Nan” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Нан”
- Cebuano: “Nan”
- Chinese: “楠市”
- Chinese: “难 (城市)”
- Chinese: “难”
- Chinese: “難 (城市)”
- Danish: “Nan”
- Dutch: “Nan”
- French: “Nan”
- Georgian: “ნანი”
- German: “Nan”
- Greek: “Ναν”
- Italian: “Nan”
- Japanese: “ナーン”
- Korean: “난”
- Lithuanian: “Nanas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nan”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nan i Thailand”
- Norwegian: “Nan”
- Polish: “Nan”
- Russian: “Нан”
- Shan: “ၼၢၼ်ႉ”
- Slovenian: “Nan”
- Swedish: “Nan”
- Thai: “ทม.น่าน”
- Thai: “เทศบาลเมืองน่าน”
- Thai: “น่าน”
- Thai: “เมืองน่าน”
- Tibetan: “ནཱན་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།”
- Ukrainian: “Нан”
- Urdu: “نان، تھائی لینڈ”
- Vietnamese: “Nan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Nan”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Nan”. Photo: Takeaway, CC BY-SA 3.0.