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Phuket

Phuket, pronounced "puh-KET", is 's largest island. It is 48 km in length, 21 km at its widest, and is in , on the west-facing Andaman Sea coastline, suspended from the southern tip of Phang Nga province by a pair of short but substantial road bridges.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Phuket Town and Patong.

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Phuket is a city in the southeast of Phuket Island, Thailand, and the capital of Phuket province. As of 2024 the city municipality had a population of 71,284 and an urban population of 252,515 in the entire district of .

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is the largest beach resort on the island of Phuket. is a party capital of Asia, with famous nightlife and a great beach. This article also includes Kalim, a series of small beaches just north of .

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Beach refers to a beach, and the town adjoining it, on the west coast of Phuket, . It is considered as the second longest beach in the province.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Kamala and Kata.

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is on the west coast of Phuket, just to the north of , and immediately south of Surin Beach. is one of the quieter areas on Phuket's famed west coast.

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Yai and Noi are two adjacent beaches on the west coast of Phuket, directly south of . Yai is sometimes called simply Beach.

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is a beach on the northwestern coast of Phuket, . It's also known as Airport Beach or Sa Nam Bin Beach, as it's very close to the airport.

is on the east coast of Phuket.

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Beach Ao , also หาดสุรินทร์) Hat Surin) is on the west coast of Phuket, about 15 km north of .

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is a seafront village in Phuket. The northern part of is known as Hat Mittraphap, and has some beachfront, while the southern portion is the urban area and a port called Laem Ka.

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Yai and Noi, also known as Ko Raya Yai and Ko Raya Noi, are twin islands off the south coast of Ko Phuket. Racha Yai lies about 8 km due south of the Laem Prom Thep.

are two adjacent quiet beaches in northern Phuket. There are a few hotels, guesthouses, and restaurants in both towns. The atmosphere is generally laid back and quiet.

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, more commonly referred to as Nai Harn, is a beach at the southernmost tip of Phuket, near Laem Phromthep. The northern bit of is Ao Sen.

Ao Bang Thao), also known as Bang Tao and Laguna Beach, is a beach on the northwest side of Phuket.

is a beach in Phuket, 1 km south of .

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, sometimes spelled Ko He or Ko Hey and also known as Coral Island, is an island southeast of Phuket, about 5 km off-shore. In addition to the splendid reefs there are two fine beaches on the north and west of the island.

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is a region in southern Phuket, extending into the Andaman sea.

Phuket

Latitude of center
7.9366° or 7° 56′ 12″ north
Longitude of center
98.3529° or 98° 21′ 11″ east
Population
417,000
Elevation
131 metres (430 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4351792162
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­province
Geo­Names ID
1151253
Wiki­data ID
Q182565
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Phuket” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Propinsi Phuket”
  • Albanian: “Provinca Phuket”
  • Arabic: “بوكيت”
  • Arabic: “جزيرة بوكيت”
  • Arabic: “جزيرة فوكيت”
  • Arabic: “محافظة بوكيت”
  • Arabic: “محافظة فوكيت”
  • Armenian: “Պհուկետ”
  • Balinese: “Propinsi Phuket”
  • Basque: “Phuket”
  • Belarusian: “Пхукет”
  • Bengali: “ফুকেট”
  • Bengali: “ফুকেত প্রদেশ”
  • Betawi: “Bukit (Muang-Tay)”
  • Betawi: “Bukit”
  • Bishnupriya: “চাংৱাত ফুকেত”
  • Bulgarian: “Пукет”
  • Catalan: “Província de Phuket”
  • Cebuano: “Phuket Province”
  • Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای فوکێت”
  • Chinese: “Phuket Hú”
  • Chinese: “布吉島”
  • Chinese: “布吉府”
  • Chinese: “普吉”
  • Chinese: “普吉岛”
  • Chinese: “普吉島”
  • Chinese: “普吉府”
  • Chinese: “童卡府”
  • Chinese: “通扣”
  • Czech: “Phuket”
  • Czech: “Talang”
  • Czech: “Tha-Laang”
  • Danish: “Phuket”
  • Dutch: “Changwat Phuket”
  • Dutch: “Phuket”
  • Esperanto: “Provinco Phuket”
  • Estonian: “Phuketi provints”
  • Faroese: “Phuket”
  • Finnish: “Phuket provinssi”
  • Finnish: “Phuket”
  • French: “Djonkseylon”
  • French: “Phuket”
  • French: “province de Phuket”
  • French: “Province de Phuket”
  • French: “Salanga”
  • Galician: “Provincia de Phuket”
  • Galician: “Provincia Phuket”
  • Georgian: “ფუკეტის პროვინცია”
  • Georgian: “ფხუკეტის პროვინცია”
  • German: “Phuket”
  • German: “TH-83”
  • Greek: “Πουκέτ”
  • Gujarati: “ફુકેટ”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז פוקט”
  • Hebrew: “פוקט”
  • Hindi: “फुकेट”
  • Hindi: “फूकेत प्रान्त”
  • Hungarian: “Phuket”
  • Icelandic: “Phuket”
  • Indonesian: “Phuket”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Phuket”
  • Indonesian: “Pulau Phuket”
  • Italian: “Phuket”
  • Italian: “provincia di Phuket”
  • Italian: “Provincia di Phuket”
  • Japanese: “プーケット”
  • Japanese: “プーケット島”
  • Japanese: “プーケット県”
  • Kabyle: “Fuket”
  • Kabyle: “Phuket”
  • Kannada: “ಫುಕೆಟ್”
  • Kazakh: “Pxwket”
  • Kazakh: “Пхукет”
  • Kazakh: “پحۋكەت”
  • Khmer: “ខេត្តភូកេត”
  • Komering: “Provinsi Phuket”
  • Korean: “푸껫 섬”
  • Korean: “푸껫주”
  • Korean: “푸케트 섬”
  • Korean: “푸켓 섬”
  • Lao: “ຈັງຫວັດພູເກັດ”
  • Latvian: “Phuketas province”
  • Latvian: “Phūketas province”
  • Latvian: “Puketas province”
  • Lithuanian: “Puketas”
  • Malagasy: “Faritanin’i Phuket”
  • Malay: “Phuket”
  • Malay: “Pulau Phuket”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Phuket”
  • Marathi: “फुकेट प्रांत”
  • Marathi: “फुकेट”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Phuket Hū”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Phuket Hú”
  • Minangkabau: “Phuket”
  • Nepali: “फुकेट प्रदेश”
  • Northern Frisian: “Phuket”
  • Northern Frisian: “Prowins Phuket”
  • Northern Luri: “فوکت”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Phuket”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Phuket-fylket”
  • Norwegian: “Phuket”
  • Ossetian: “Пхукет”
  • Persian: “استان پوکت”
  • Persian: “پوکت”
  • Persian: “جزیره پوکت”
  • Persian: “جزیرهٔ پوکت”
  • Polish: “Phuket”
  • Polish: “Prowincja Phuket”
  • Portuguese: “Ilhas Phuket”
  • Portuguese: “Phuket”
  • Romanian: “Provincia Phuket”
  • Russian: “Бхукет”
  • Russian: “Провинция Пхукет”
  • Russian: “Пукет”
  • Russian: “Пхукет”
  • Scots: “Phuket Province”
  • Serbian: “Пукет”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Puket”
  • Sinhala: “ෆුකට්”
  • Slovenian: “Phuket”
  • Slovenian: “Puket”
  • Spanish: “Phuket”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Phuket”
  • Spanish: “Provincia Phuket”
  • Swedish: “Phuket”
  • Tagalog: “Lalawigan ng Phuket”
  • Tamil: “புக்கெட் மாகாணம்”
  • Tamil: “பூகத் மாநிலம்”
  • Tamil: “ப்ஹுகேட்”
  • Telugu: “ఫుకెట్”
  • Thai: “เกาะภูเก็ต”
  • Thai: “จ.ภูเก็ต”
  • Thai: “จังซีลอน”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดภูเก็ต”
  • Thai: “ตะกั่วถลาง”
  • Thai: “ถลาง”
  • Thai: “บูกิต”
  • Thai: “ภูเก็จ”
  • Thai: “ภูเก็ต”
  • Thai: “มณิครัม”
  • Thai: “มนิกกิมัม”
  • Thai: “สุนัขนาม”
  • Thai: “อุยังซาลอน”
  • Turkish: “Phuket”
  • Turkish: “Puket adası”
  • Turkish: “Puket”
  • Ukrainian: “Пхукет”
  • Urdu: “صوبہ پھوکٹ”
  • Urdu: “صوبہ پھوکیت”
  • Uzbek: “Phuket province”
  • Vietnamese: “Phuket”
  • Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Phuket”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Phuket”
  • Western Panjabi: “صوبہ پھوکٹ”
  • Wu Chinese: “Phuket province”
  • Wu Chinese: “布吉府”
  • Wu Chinese: “普吉府”
  • Yakut: “Пхукет”
  • Yue Chinese: “布吉府”
  • Yue Chinese: “普吉府”

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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 “Phuket”. Photo: far8mulisha, CC BY 2.0.