Pakse
Pakse is the relatively modern and friendly capital of Champasak province. The transport hub of Southern Laos, Pakse is not a tourist destination in itself, but a necessary and useful stop on the tourist trail to Si Phan Don and the Bolaven Plateau, and the nearest big town to Wat Phou.
Photo: Adam Carr, Public domain.
- Type: City with 120,000 residents
- Description: city in Laos
- Also known as: “Laos Pakxe”, “Pak se”, “Pāksē”, and “Pakxé”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pakse International Airport and Champasak Stadium.
Pakse International Airport
Aerodrome
Champasak Stadium
Stadium
Pakse
- Categories: human settlement, district of Laos, border city, big city, and locality
- Location: Champasak, Southern Laos, Laos, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
15.1201° or 15° 7′ 13″ north
Longitude
105.8044° or 105° 48′ 16″ east
Population
120,000
Elevation
105 metres (344 feet)
IATA airport code
PKZ
United Nations Location Code
LA PKZ
Open location code
7P774RC3+3Q
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
Discover Pakse from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Waray—“Pakse” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Pakse”
- Albanian: “Pāksē”
- Amharic: “ፓክሴ”
- Arabic: “باكسي”
- Armenian: “Պակսե”
- Asturian: “Pakse”
- Azerbaijani: “Pakse”
- Basque: “Pakse”
- Bengali: “পাকসে”
- Bengali: “পাক্সে”
- Bulgarian: “Паксе”
- Catalan: “Pakse”
- Cebuano: “Pāksē”
- Cebuano: “Pakxé”
- Chechen: “Паксе”
- Chinese: “巴色/百細”
- Chinese: “巴色”
- Chinese: “巴色县”
- Croatian: “Pakse”
- Czech: “Pakse”
- Danish: “Pakxe”
- Dutch: “Pakse”
- Dutch: “Pakxe”
- Egyptian Arabic: “باكسى”
- Esperanto: “Pakse”
- Esperanto: “Pakseo”
- Finnish: “Pakse”
- Finnish: “Pakxe”
- French: “Pak Se”
- French: “Pak Sé”
- French: “Pakse”
- French: “Paksé”
- French: “Pāksē”
- French: “Pakxé”
- Georgian: “პაქსე”
- German: “Pakse”
- German: “Pakxé”
- Greek: “Πάξε”
- Gujarati: “પાકસે”
- Hausa: “Pakse”
- Hebrew: “פאקסה”
- Hebrew: “פקסה”
- Hindi: “पक्से”
- Hindi: “पाक्से”
- Hungarian: “Pakxé”
- Icelandic: “Pakse”
- Ido: “Pakxe”
- Indonesian: “Pakse”
- Irish: “Pakse”
- Italian: “Pacsé”
- Italian: “Pakse”
- Italian: “Pāksē”
- Italian: “Paxé”
- Japanese: “パークセー”
- Japanese: “パークセー郡”
- Javanese: “Pakse”
- Kannada: “ಪಾಕ್ಸೆ”
- Kazakh: “Паксе”
- Khmer: “ប៉ាកសេ”
- Kinaray-A: “Pāksē”
- Kirghiz: “Паксе”
- Korean: “پاکسه”
- Korean: “빡세”
- Korean: “팍세”
- Lao: “ປາກເຊ”
- Lao: “ເມືອງປາກເຊ”
- Latvian: “Pakse”
- Lithuanian: “Paksė”
- Macedonian: “Паксе”
- Malay: “Pakse”
- Malayalam: “പാക്സെ”
- Marathi: “पाक्से”
- Mingrelian: “პაქსე”
- Mongolian: “Паксе”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pakse”
- Norwegian: “Pakse”
- Oromo: “Pakse”
- Ossetian: “Паксе”
- Panjabi: “ਪੱਕਸੇ”
- Persian: “پاکسه”
- Polish: “Pakxe”
- Polish: “Pakxé”
- Portuguese: “Pakse”
- Portuguese: “Pakxe”
- Pushto: “باكسيه”
- Russian: “Паксе”
- Scots: “Pakse”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Pakxé”
- Sinhala: “පක්සේ”
- Somali: “Pakse”
- Spanish: “Pakse”
- Spanish: “Pāksē”
- Spanish: “Pakxé”
- Swahili: “Pakse”
- Swedish: “Pakxé”
- Tajik: “Паксе”
- Tamil: “பாக்சி”
- Tatar: “Паксе”
- Telugu: “పక్సె”
- Thai: “ปากเซ”
- Turkish: “Pakse”
- Ukrainian: “Паксе”
- Urdu: “پاکسے”
- Uzbek: “Pakse”
- Venetian: “Pāksē”
- Vietnamese: “Pakse”
- Vietnamese: “Pakxe”
- Waray (Philippines): “Pakse”
- Waray (Philippines): “Pāksē”
- Waray (Philippines): “Pakxé”
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