Pleiku

Pleiku is a former city in central , located in the region. It was the capital of the Gia Lai Province. Many years ago, it was inhabited primarily by the Bahnar and Jarai ethnic groups, sometimes known as the Montagnards or Degar, although now it is inhabited primarily by the Kinh ethnic group.
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  • Type: City with 306,000 residents
  • Description: former city of Vietnam
  • Also known as: “Gia Lai”, “Play Cu”, “Play Ku”, “Plây Ku”, “Plei Ku”, “Pleiku City”, “Thành phố Pleiku”, “Tỉnh Pleiku”, and “坡離俱市”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Pleiku Stadium.

Stadium
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, also known as Pleiku Arena, is a football in Pleiku, .

Pleiku

Latitude
13.977° or 13° 58′ 37″ north
Longitude
108.0016° or 108° 0′ 6″ east
Population
306,000
Elevation
760 metres (2,493 feet)
IATA airport code
PXU
UN/LOCODE
VN GLI, VN KUG, and VN PXU
Open location code
7P5CX2G2+QM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 369487091
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1569684
Wiki­data ID
Q30599
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Yue Chinese—“Pleiku” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ፕሌኩ”
  • Arabic: “بليكو”
  • Asturian: “Pleiku”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pleiku”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pleyku”
  • Bengali: “প্লেইকু”
  • Catalan: “Pleiku”
  • Cebuano: “Pleiku”
  • Chinese: “波來古市”
  • Chinese: “波来古市”
  • Czech: “Pleiku”
  • Danish: “Pleiku”
  • Dutch: “Pleiku”
  • Finnish: “Pleiku”
  • French: “Pleiku”
  • German: “Plei Cu”
  • German: “Pleiku”
  • Greek: “Πλεϊκού”
  • Gujarati: “પ્લેઇકુ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Pleiku”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Pô-lòi-kú”
  • Hindi: “पलेइकु”
  • Hindi: “प्लेइकु”
  • Hungarian: “Plei Cu”
  • Hungarian: “Pleiku”
  • Indonesian: “Pleiku”
  • Italian: “Pleiku”
  • Japanese: “プレイク”
  • Javanese: “Pleiku”
  • Kalaallisut: “Pleiku”
  • Kannada: “ಪ್ಲೆಕು”
  • Kazakh: “Плейку”
  • Khmer: “ផ្លាយគូ”
  • Kirghiz: “Плейку”
  • Korean: “쁠래이꾸”
  • Lao: “ເປລິຍກູ”
  • Latvian: “Pleiku”
  • Lithuanian: “Pleiku”
  • Lombard: “Pleiku”
  • Malay: “Pleiku”
  • Marathi: “प्लेइकू”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Pleiku Chhī”
  • Mingrelian: “პლეიკუ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pleiku”
  • Norwegian: “Pleiku”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Pleiku”
  • Oromo: “Pleiku”
  • Panjabi: “ਪਲੇਕੁ”
  • Persian: “پلیکو”
  • Polish: “Pleiku”
  • Portuguese: “Pleiku”
  • Pushto: “پلیکو”
  • Russian: “Плейку (город)”
  • Russian: “Плейку”
  • Serbian: “Плеику”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pleiku”
  • Sinhala: “ප්ලේයිකු”
  • Slovak: “Pleiku”
  • Slovenian: “Pleiku”
  • Somali: “Pleiku”
  • Spanish: “Pleiku”
  • Swahili: “Pleiku”
  • Swedish: “Pleiku”
  • Tajik: “Плейку”
  • Tamil: “பிளீகு”
  • Tamil: “பிளேகூ”
  • Tatar: “Плейку”
  • Telugu: “ప్లేకు”
  • Thai: “เปล็ยกู”
  • Turkish: “Pleiku”
  • Ukrainian: “Плейку”
  • Urdu: “پلیکو”
  • Uzbek: “Pleiku”
  • Vietnamese: “Plây Cu”
  • Vietnamese: “Pleiku”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Pleiku”
  • Yue Chinese: “波來古”

Localities in the Area

Places to explore: Pleiku and Tổ dân phố 8.

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