Poipet
Poipet hosts Cambodia's main border crossing with Thailand, which links northwest Cambodia to Aranyaprathet, and onward to Bangkok. Cross-border activity has made the town grow to be larger than its provincial capital, Sisophon.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Clay Gilliland, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: City with 79,000 residents
- Description: city in Cambodia
- Also known as: “Phum Paôy Pêt”, “Phumĭ Paôy Pêt”, and “Poiphet”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Poipet railway station and Ban Klong Luk Border.
Poipet railway station
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Poipet railway station is a railway station in Poipet, Banteay Meanchey Province, Cambodia located at 850 meters from the border of Thailand. It is the railway terminus of the Phnom Penh–Poipet Line and it was also connects to the State Railway of Thailand via Eastern Line.
Ban Klong Luk Border
Railway station
Photo: Paweeraphat Thasee, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ban Klong Luk Border railway station is a railway station in Thailand and is the last stop of the Aranyaprathet Main Line of the Eastern Line located in Thailand, before entering Cambodia.
Poipet
- Categories: border city and locality
- Location: Paoy Paet, Krong Paoy Paet, Banteay Meanchey, North-western Cambodia, Cambodia, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
13.6594° or 13° 39′ 34″ northLongitude
102.5708° or 102° 34′ 15″ eastPopulation
79,000Elevation
43 metres (141 feet)United Nations Location Code
KH PPTOpen location code
7P54MH5C+Q8OpenStreetMap ID
node 458885352OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Poipet” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بويبت”
- Armenian: “Պոյիպետ”
- Asturian: “Poipet”
- Bengali: “পইপেট”
- Cebuano: “Paôy Pêt”
- Chinese: “Poipet”
- Chinese: “波別”
- Chinese: “波别”
- Chinese: “波貝”
- Chinese: “波贝”
- Danish: “Poipet”
- Dutch: “Poipet”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بويبت”
- Finnish: “Poipet”
- French: “Poipet”
- German: “Poipet”
- Greek: “Ποϊπέτ”
- Gujarati: “પોઈપેટ”
- Hebrew: “פויפט”
- Hebrew: “פיופט”
- Hindi: “पोपेट”
- Indonesian: “Poipet”
- Italian: “Poipet”
- Japanese: “ポイペット”
- Japanese: “ポイペト”
- Kannada: “ಪೊಪಿಟ್”
- Khmer: “Paoy Paet”
- Khmer: “ក្រុង ប៉ោយប៉ែត”
- Khmer: “ក្រុងប៉ោយប៉ែត”
- Khmer: “ប៉ោយប៉ែត”
- Korean: “포이펫”
- Latvian: “Poipeta”
- Lithuanian: “Poipetas”
- Malay: “Poipet”
- Marathi: “पोइपेट”
- Mingrelian: “პოიპეტი”
- Northern Frisian: “Poipet”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Poipet”
- Norwegian: “Poipet”
- Polish: “Paôypêt”
- Portuguese: “Poipet”
- Romanian: “Poipet”
- Russian: “Паойпэт”
- Russian: “Пойпет”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Poipet”
- Sinhala: “පොයිපෙට්”
- Spanish: “Poipet”
- Swedish: “Paôy Pêt”
- Swedish: “Poipet”
- Tamil: “பொய்ப்பேட்”
- Telugu: “పొయ్ప్ట్”
- Thai: “ปอยเปต”
- Turkish: “Poipet”
- Ukrainian: “Пойпет”
- Urdu: “پوئیپیت”
- Vietnamese: “Poipet”
- Waray (Philippines): “Poipet”
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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 “Poipet”. Photo: Clay Gilliland, CC BY-SA 2.0.