Paksan
Paksan is in Bolikhamsai Province, in Central Laos. It is not a particularly appealing town but has become a busy place due to the ever increasing traffic on Hwy 13.Photo: Phó Nháy, Public domain.
Photo: Tango7174, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: City with 22,000 residents
- Description: city
- Also known as: “Pakxan”
Paksan
- Categories: border city, district of Laos, and locality
- Location: Bolikhamsai Province, Central Laos, Laos, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
18.3924° or 18° 23′ 33″ northLongitude
103.6593° or 103° 39′ 33″ eastPopulation
22,000Elevation
156 metres (512 feet)United Nations Location Code
LA PKSOpen location code
7PC59MR5+XPOpenStreetMap ID
node 122511459OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Waray—“Paksan” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ፓክሳን”
- Arabic: “باكسان”
- Asturian: “Pakxan”
- Azerbaijani: “Pakxan”
- Belarusian: “Паксан”
- Bengali: “পাক্সান”
- Cebuano: “Muang Pakxan”
- Cebuano: “Pāksan”
- Chinese: “北汕”
- Danish: “Pakxan”
- Dutch: “Paksan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “باكسان”
- Esperanto: “Paksan”
- Esperanto: “Paksano”
- Finnish: “Pakxan”
- French: “Paksane”
- French: “Pakxan”
- Georgian: “პაქსანი”
- German: “Paksan”
- German: “Paksane”
- German: “Pakxan”
- Greek: “Πακσάν”
- Gujarati: “પક્સાન”
- Hausa: “Pakxan”
- Hebrew: “פקסן”
- Hindi: “पक्सान”
- Indonesian: “Pakxan”
- Italian: “Pacsanà”
- Italian: “Pàcsana”
- Italian: “Pāksan”
- Italian: “Pakxan”
- Italian: “Paxanà”
- Italian: “Pàxana”
- Japanese: “パークサン郡”
- Japanese: “パクサン”
- Javanese: “Pakxan”
- Kannada: “ಪಾಕ್ಕ್ಸಾನ್”
- Kazakh: “Пакхан”
- Khmer: “ប៉ាកសាន់”
- Kinaray-A: “Pāksan”
- Kirghiz: “Пакхан”
- Korean: “팍산”
- Latvian: “Paksana”
- Lithuanian: “Pakchanas”
- Malay: “Pakxan”
- Marathi: “पक्सान”
- Mingrelian: “პაქსანი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pakxan”
- Oromo: “Pakxan”
- Panjabi: “ਪਕਸਾਨ”
- Persian: “پاکسان”
- Persian: “پاکشن”
- Polish: “Pakxan”
- Portuguese: “Muang Pakxan”
- Portuguese: “Pakxan”
- Pushto: “باكسان”
- Russian: “Паксан”
- Russian: “Паксане”
- Russian: “Пакхан”
- Sinhala: “පැක්සන්”
- Slovenian: “Paksan”
- Slovenian: “Pakxan”
- Somali: “Pakxan”
- Spanish: “Pāksan”
- Spanish: “Pakxan”
- Swahili: “Pakxan”
- Swedish: “Muang Pakxan (provinshuvudstad)”
- Swedish: “Muang Pakxan”
- Swedish: “Pakxan”
- Tajik: “Пакхан”
- Tamil: “பாக்சான்”
- Tatar: “Пакхан”
- Telugu: “పాక్సన్”
- Thai: “ปากซัน”
- Thai: “เมืองปากซัน”
- Turkish: “Pakxan”
- Ukrainian: “Паксан”
- Urdu: “پاکسان”
- Uzbek: “Pakxan”
- Vietnamese: “Paksan”
- Vietnamese: “Pakxan”
- Vietnamese: “Pakxane”
- Waray (Philippines): “Paksan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Pāksan”
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