Phetchaburi

Phetchaburi - pronounced and sometimes spelled Phetburi - is the provincial capital of Phetchaburi Province.
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  • Type: Town with 31,400 residents
  • Description: town in Phetchaburi province, Thailand
  • Also known as: Amphoe Khlong Krachaeng”, “Amphoe Muang Phet Buri”, “Bejraburi”, “Bhej Buri”, “Changwat Phet Buri”, “Moeang Bhejburi”, “Muang Bheja Buri”, “Muang Pecha Buri”, “Muang Petchaboun”, “Mueang Phetchaburi”, “Pechaburi”, “Petchaburi”, and “Phet Buri

Places of Interest

Highlights include Phra Nakhon Khiri Historical Park and Phetchaburi railway station.

Museum
Phra Nakhon Khiri is a historical park in Phetchaburi, on a hill overlooking the city. The name Phra Nakhon Khiri means 'holy city hill', but locals know it better as Khao Wang, meaning 'hill with palace'.

Railway station
is a railway station located in Khlong Krachaeng Subdistrict, Phetchaburi City. It is a class 1 railway station.

Buddhist temple
Worawihan is a Thai Theravada Buddhist temple in Phetchaburi. It is a royal temple of the third class, and dates at least from the Ayutthaya period.

Phetchaburi

Latitude
13.1053° or 13° 6′ 19″ north
Longitude
99.9475° or 99° 56′ 51″ east
Population
31,400
Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)
United Nations Location Codes
TH PCT and TH PHE
Open location code
7M5X4W4X+42
Open­Street­Map ID
node 302845879
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1149698
Wiki­data ID
Q641383
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Western Panjabi—“Phetchaburi” goes by many names.
  • Basque: Phetchaburi
  • Belarusian: Пхетбуры
  • Burmese: ဖတ်ချဘူရီ
  • Cebuano: Phetchaburi
  • Chinese: 佛丕市
  • Chinese: 碧武里
  • Dutch: Phetchaburi
  • Finnish: Phetchaburi
  • French: Phetchaburi
  • German: Phetchaburi
  • Hebrew: פט בורי
  • Hungarian: Phetcsaburi
  • Italian: Phetchaburi
  • Japanese: ペッチャブリー
  • Japanese: ペッチャブリー県
  • Korean: 펫차부리
  • Malayalam: ഫെച്ചാബുരി
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Phetchaburi
  • Norwegian: Phetchaburi
  • Portuguese: Phetchaburi
  • Russian: Пхетбури
  • Russian: Пхетчабури
  • Slovenian: Phetchaburi
  • Swedish: Phetchaburi
  • Tagalog: Phetchaburi
  • Thai: เทศบาลเมืองเพชรบุรี
  • Thai: เพชรบุรี
  • Thai: เมืองเพชรบุรี
  • Tibetan: ཕེ་ཊི་ཅ་བུ་རི།
  • Urdu: پھتچابوری
  • Vietnamese: Phetchaburi
  • Waray (Philippines): Phetchaburi
  • Western Panjabi: پھٹچابوری

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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 “Phetchaburi”. Photo: Kritmongkholrat Arunsuriya, CC BY-SA 3.0.