Phuket
Phuket, pronounced "puh-KET", is Thailand's largest island. It is 48 km in length, 21 km at its widest, and is in Southern Thailand, 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.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Phuket Town and Patong.
Phuket Town
Phuket is a city in the southeast of Phuket Island, Thailand, and the capital of Phuket province.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Ko Racha and Kamala.
Chalong Bay
Chalong Bay is on the east coast of Phuket.
Nai Thon and Nai Yang
Nai Thon and Nai Yang are two adjacent quiet beaches in northern Phuket.
Ko Lon
Small and largely undeveloped, Ko Lon is a tranquil island get-a-way just off the shores of Phuket.
Cape Panwa
Cape Panwa is a region in southern Phuket, extending into the Andaman sea.
Phuket
- Province with about 419,000 residents
- Description: province of Thailand (for island see Q1777775)
- Also known as“Bhuket”“Changwat Phuket”“Muang Thalang”“Phuket Province”“Pucket”
- Categories
- Location
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Latitude of center
7.9366° or 7° 56′ 12″ north
Longitude of center
98.3529° or 98° 21′ 11″ east
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Phuket” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Propinsi Phuket”
- Albanian: “Provinca Phuket”
- Amharic: “ፉኬት”
- Arabic: “بوكيت”
- Arabic: “جزيرة بوكيت”
- Arabic: “جزيرة فوكيت”
- Arabic: “محافظة بوكيت”
- Arabic: “محافظة فوكيت”
- Armenian: “Պհուկետ”
- Azerbaijani: “Fuket”
- Balinese: “Propinsi Phuket”
- Basque: “Phuket”
- Belarusian: “Пхукет”
- Bengali: “ফুকেত প্রদেশ”
- Bengali: “ফুকেত”
- Betawi: “Bukit (Muang-Tay)”
- Betawi: “Bukit”
- Bishnupriya: “চাংৱাত ফুকেত”
- Bulgarian: “Пукет”
- Catalan: “Província de Phuket”
- Cebuano: “Phuket Province”
- Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای فوکێت”
- 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: “Salanga”
- Galician: “Provincia de Phuket”
- Galician: “Provincia Phuket”
- Georgian: “ფუკეტის პროვინცია”
- Georgian: “ფხუკეტის პროვინცია”
- German: “Phuket”
- German: “TH-83”
- Greek: “Πουκέτ”
- Gujarati: “ફુકેટ”
- Hausa: “Phuket”
- 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”
- Japanese: “プーケット”
- Japanese: “プーケット島”
- Japanese: “プーケット県”
- Javanese: “Phuket”
- Kabyle: “Fuket”
- Kabyle: “Phuket”
- Kannada: “ಫುಕೆಟ್”
- Kazakh: “Pxwket”
- Kazakh: “Пхукет”
- Kazakh: “پحۋكەت”
- Khmer: “ខេត្តភូកេត”
- Kirghiz: “Фукет”
- Komering: “Provinsi Phuket”
- Korean: “푸껫 섬”
- Korean: “푸껫주”
- Korean: “푸케트 섬”
- Korean: “푸켓 섬”
- Lao: “ຈັງຫວັດພູເກັດ”
- 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”
- Oromo: “Phuket”
- Ossetian: “Пхукет”
- Panjabi: “ਫੁਕੇਟ”
- Persian: “استان پوکت”
- Persian: “پوکت”
- Persian: “جزیرهٔ پوکت”
- Polish: “Phuket”
- Polish: “Prowincja Phuket”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas Phuket”
- Portuguese: “Phuket”
- Pushto: “فوکت”
- 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”
- Somali: “Phuket”
- Spanish: “Phuket”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Phuket”
- Spanish: “Provincia Phuket”
- Swahili: “Phuket”
- Swedish: “Phuket”
- Tagalog: “Lalawigan ng Phuket”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Пукет”
- Tajik: “Фукет”
- Tamil: “புக்கெட் மாகாணம்”
- Tamil: “பூகத் மாநிலம்”
- Tamil: “ப்ஹுகேட்”
- Tatar: “Фукет”
- 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”
“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.”
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