Paksan

Paksan is in Bolikhamsai Province, in . It is not a particularly appealing town but has become a busy place due to the ever increasing traffic on Hwy 13.
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  • Type: City with 22,000 residents
  • Description: city in Laos
  • Also known as: “Muang Pakxan (provinshuvudstad)”, “Pacsanà”, “Pàcsana”, “Pakxan”, “Paxanà”, “Pàxana”, “เมืองปากซัน”, and “ປາກຊັນ”

Paksan

Latitude
18.3924° or 18° 23′ 33″ north
Longitude
103.6593° or 103° 39′ 33″ east
Population
22,000
Elevation
156 metres (512 feet)
UN/LOCODE
LA PKS
Open location code
7PC59MR5+XP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 122511459
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1655140
Wiki­data ID
Q1020309
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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”
  • Czech: “Pakxan”
  • Danish: “Pakxan”
  • Dutch: “Paksan”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “باكسان”
  • Esperanto: “Paksan”
  • Esperanto: “Paksano”
  • Finnish: “Pakxan”
  • French: “Paksane”
  • French: “Pakxan”
  • Georgian: “პაქსანი”
  • German: “Pakxan”
  • Greek: “Πακσάν”
  • Gujarati: “પક્સાન”
  • Hausa: “Pakxan”
  • Hebrew: “פקסן”
  • Hindi: “पक्सान”
  • Hindi: “पाक्सान”
  • Indonesian: “Pakxan”
  • Italian: “Pāksan”
  • Italian: “Pakxan”
  • 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”
  • Northern Frisian: “Pakxan”
  • 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”
  • Somali: “Pakxan”
  • Spanish: “Pāksan”
  • Spanish: “Pakxan”
  • Swahili: “Pakxan”
  • Swedish: “Pakxan”
  • Tajik: “Пакхан”
  • Tamil: “பாக்சான்”
  • Tatar: “Пакхан”
  • Telugu: “పాక్సన్”
  • Thai: “ปากซัน”
  • Turkish: “Pakxan”
  • Ukrainian: “Паксан”
  • Urdu: “پاکسان”
  • Uzbek: “Pakxan”
  • Vietnamese: “Pakxan”
  • Vietnamese: “Pakxane”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Paksan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Pāksan”

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