Phonsavan
Phonsavan is the capital of Xieng Khouang Province in Central Laos. It is known primarily as the gateway to the Plain of Jars.Photo: DerFussi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Torbenbrinker, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 37,500 residents
- Description: town in Laos
- Also known as: “Muang Phonsavan”, “Muang Phônsavan”, “Muang Phouan”, “Phone Savan”, “Phong Savan”, “Phônsavan”, and “Phōnsavan”
Photo: DerFussi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Phonsavan
- Categories: town and locality
- Location: Xiangkhouang, Central Laos, Laos, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
19.4519° or 19° 27′ 7″ northLongitude
103.2066° or 103° 12′ 24″ eastPopulation
37,500Elevation
1,106 metres (3,629 feet)Open location code
7PF5F624+QJOpenStreetMap ID
node 133221690OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1655123Wikidata ID
Q1011711
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Waray—“Phonsavan” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ሙዋንግ ፎንሳቫን”
- Arabic: “فونسافان”
- Arabic: “مواng فونسافان”
- Asturian: “Phonsavan”
- Azerbaijani: “Muang Phonsavan”
- Bengali: “ফোংসাভান”
- Bengali: “মুয়াং ফনসাভান”
- Bulgarian: “Пхонсаван”
- Catalan: “Phonsavan”
- Cebuano: “Phōnsavan”
- Chinese: “丰沙湾”
- Chinese: “川礦”
- Chinese: “豐沙灣”
- Czech: “Phonsavan”
- Danish: “Phonsavan”
- Dutch: “Phonsavan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فونسافان”
- Esperanto: “Phonsavan”
- Finnish: “Phonsavan”
- French: “Muang Phonsavan”
- French: “Phonsavan”
- French: “Phônsavan”
- Friulian: “Phonsavan”
- German: “Muang Pek”
- German: “Muang Phonsavan”
- German: “Phonsavan”
- Greek: “Φονσαβάν”
- Gujarati: “ફૉન્સાવન”
- Hausa: “Muang Phonsavan”
- Hindi: “फोनसावन”
- Hindi: “मुआंग फोंसावान”
- Indonesian: “Muang Phonsavan”
- Indonesian: “Phonsavan”
- Italian: “Phonsavan”
- Japanese: “ポーンサワン”
- Japanese: “ポーンサワン郡”
- Japanese: “ムアンフォンサワン”
- Javanese: “Muang Phonsavan”
- Kannada: “ಫೋನ್ಸಾವನ್”
- Kazakh: “Муанг Фонсаван”
- Khmer: “ពោនសួគ៌”
- Kinaray-A: “Phōnsavan”
- Kirghiz: “Муанг Фонсаван”
- Korean: “폰사반”
- Lao: “ໂພນສະຫວັນ”
- Latvian: “Phonsavana”
- Lithuanian: “Phonsavan”
- Lithuanian: “Ponsavanas”
- Malay: “Muang Phonsavan”
- Malay: “Phonsavan”
- Marathi: “फॉन्सेवन”
- Mingrelian: “ფონსავანი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Phonsavan”
- Oromo: “Muang Phonsavan”
- Panjabi: “ਮੁਆਂਗ ਫੋਂਸਾਵਾਨ”
- Persian: “فونساوان”
- Persian: “موانگ فونساوان”
- Polish: “Phonsavan”
- Portuguese: “Muang Phonsavan”
- Portuguese: “Phonsavan”
- Pushto: “مواang فونسافان”
- Russian: “Муанг Фонсаван”
- Russian: “Пхонсаван”
- Sinhala: “පොන්සාවන්”
- Slovenian: “Phonsavan”
- Somali: “Muang Phonsavan”
- Spanish: “Muang Phonsavan”
- Spanish: “Phonsavan”
- Spanish: “Phōnsavan”
- Swahili: “Muang Phonsavan”
- Swedish: “Phonsavan”
- Tajik: “Муанг Фонсаван”
- Tamil: “பான்செவன்”
- Tatar: “Муанг Фонсаван”
- Telugu: “ఫోన్సవన్”
- Thai: “โพนสวรรค์”
- Thai: “โพนสะหวัน”
- Turkish: “Muang Phonsavan”
- Turkish: “Phonsavan”
- Ukrainian: “Пхонсаван”
- Urdu: “فونساوان”
- Urdu: “موانگ فونساوان”
- Uzbek: “Muang Phonsavan”
- Venetian: “Phonsavan”
- Vietnamese: “Pek”
- Vietnamese: “Phôn Xa Vẳn”
- Vietnamese: “Phonsavan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Phonsavan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Phōnsavan”
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