Phuket Town
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 Amphoe Mueang.
- Type: City with 79,300 residents
- Description: city in Phuket province, Thailand
- Also known as: “Amphoe Muang Phuket”, “Bhuket”, “Changwat Phuket”, “Île de Phuket”, “Phuket”, “Phuket city”, “Phuket City Municipality”, “Phuket town”, “Thành phố Phuket”, “Tongka”, “Tongkah”, “פוקט סיטי”, “เทศบาลเมืองภูเก็ต”, “པུ་ཁེཊ།”, “푸껫 시”, “푸켓 시”, “布吉鎮”, “布吉镇”, and “普吉镇”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Vachira Phuket Hospital and Phuket Thai Hua Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Phuket Old Town.
Phuket Town
- Categories: thesaban nakhon, thesaban mueang, Sukhaphiban, and locality
- Location: Mueang Phuket, Phuket, Southern Thailand, Thailand, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
7.8848° or 7° 53′ 5″ north
Longitude
98.3892° or 98° 23′ 21″ east
Population
79,300
Elevation
28 metres (92 feet)
IATA airport code
HKT
UN/LOCODE
TH HKT
Open location code
6MVWV9MQ+WM
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Yue Chinese—“Phuket Town” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ፉኬት”
- Arabic: “بوكيت”
- Arabic: “فوكيت”
- Armenian: “Պհուկետ (քաղաք)”
- Armenian: “Պհուկետ”
- Asturian: “Phuket”
- Azerbaijani: “Pxuket”
- Balinese: “Phuket”
- Belarusian: “Пхукет”
- Bengali: “ফুকেট”
- Bengali: “ফুকেত”
- Bulgarian: “Пукет”
- Burmese: “ဖူးခက်”
- Burmese: “ဖူးခတ်”
- Catalan: “Phuket”
- Cebuano: “Phuket”
- Chinese: “普吉市”
- Czech: “Phuket”
- Danish: “Phuket”
- Dimli (individual language): “Phuket”
- Dutch: “Phuket”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بوكيت”
- Esperanto: “Puketo”
- Finnish: “Phuket”
- French: “Phuket”
- Georgian: “ფუკეტი”
- Georgian: “ფხუკეტი”
- German: “Phuket”
- Greek: “Πουκέτ”
- Gujarati: “ફુકેટ”
- Hausa: “Phuket”
- Hebrew: “פוקט”
- Hindi: “फुकेट”
- Hindi: “फुकेत”
- Hindi: “फूकेत”
- Hungarian: “Phuket”
- Indonesian: “Phuket”
- Italian: “città di Phuket”
- Italian: “Phuket”
- Japanese: “テーサバーンナコーン・プーケット”
- Japanese: “プーケット”
- Javanese: “Phuket”
- Kannada: “ಫುಕೆಟ್”
- Kazakh: “Пхукет”
- Kirghiz: “Пхукет”
- Komering: “Phuket”
- Korean: “푸껫”
- Korean: “푸껫시”
- Korean: “푸켓”
- Latvian: “Puketa”
- Lithuanian: “Phuketas”
- Malay: “Phuket”
- Marathi: “फुकेट”
- Marathi: “फूकेट”
- Northern Frisian: “Phuket”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Phuket”
- Norwegian: “Phuket”
- Oromo: “Phuket”
- Ossetian: “Пхукет”
- Panjabi: “ਫੁਕੇਟ”
- Persian: “شهر فوکت”
- Persian: “فوکت”
- Polish: “Phuket”
- Portuguese: “Phuket”
- Pushto: “فوکت”
- Romanian: “Phuket”
- Russian: “Пхукет”
- Sinhala: “ෆුකට්”
- Slovenian: “Phuket”
- Somali: “Phuket”
- Spanish: “Phuket”
- Swahili: “Phuket”
- Swedish: “Phuket”
- Tagalog: “Phuket”
- Tajik: “Пхукет”
- Tamil: “புக்கிட்”
- Tamil: “புக்கெட்”
- Tatar: “Пукет”
- Tatar: “Пхукет”
- Telugu: “ఫుకేట్”
- Thai: “เทศบาลนครภูเก็ต”
- Thai: “ภูเก็ต”
- Tibetan: “པུ་ཁེཊ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར །”
- Tibetan: “པུ་ཁེཊ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།”
- Turkish: “Phuket”
- Ukrainian: “Пхукет”
- Urdu: “پھوکیت”
- Uzbek: “Phuket”
- Vietnamese: “Phu Kẹt”
- Vietnamese: “Phuket”
- Waray (Philippines): “Phuket”
- Western Panjabi: “پھوکٹ”
- Wu Chinese: “普吉市”
- Yue Chinese: “布吉市”
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