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Champasak

Pakse

Pakse is the relatively modern and friendly capital city of . The transport hub of , Pakse is not a tourist destination in itself, but a necessary and useful stop on the tourist trail to and the , and the nearest big town to Wat Phou.
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  • 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.

Aerodrome
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is one of the three international airports in . Pakse is the former southern capital city of the Kingdom of Champasak.

Stadium
The or Champassack Stadium is a football stadium in Pakse, Laos. It is the home of Champasak F.C and it is located just north of the Daoruang Market.

Pakse

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
node 133069982
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1654379
Wiki­data ID
Q383622
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Waray—“Pakse” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Pakse”
  • Albanian: “Pāksē”
  • Arabic: “باكسي”
  • Armenian: “Պակսե”
  • Asturian: “Pakse”
  • Basque: “Pakse”
  • Bengali: “পাকসে”
  • Bulgarian: “Паксе”
  • Catalan: “Pakse”
  • Cebuano: “Pāksē”
  • Cebuano: “Pakxé”
  • Chechen: “Паксе”
  • 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”
  • Hebrew: “פאקסה”
  • Hebrew: “פקסה”
  • 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”
  • Kannada: “ಪಾಕ್ಸೆ”
  • Khmer: “ប៉ាកសេ”
  • Kinaray-A: “Pāksē”
  • 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”
  • Ossetian: “Паксе”
  • Persian: “پاکسه”
  • Polish: “Pakxe”
  • Polish: “Pakxé”
  • Portuguese: “Pakse”
  • Portuguese: “Pakxe”
  • Russian: “Паксе”
  • Scots: “Pakse”
  • Sinhala: “පක්සේ”
  • Spanish: “Pakse”
  • Spanish: “Pāksē”
  • Spanish: “Pakxé”
  • Swedish: “Pakxé”
  • Tamil: “பாக்சி”
  • Telugu: “పక్సె”
  • Thai: “ปากเซ”
  • Turkish: “Pakse”
  • Ukrainian: “Паксе”
  • Urdu: “پاکسے”
  • Venetian: “Pāksē”
  • Vietnamese: “Pakse”
  • Vietnamese: “Pakxe”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Pakse”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Pāksē”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Pakxé”

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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 “Pakse”. Photo: Tango7174, CC BY-SA 4.0.