Songkhla
Songkhla is the capital of Songkhla Province. The city itself is surrounded by beaches such as Samila & Son Awn. With the beaches, some historical centres and nice green parks, this place is definitely a good place to recharge before heading to more lively Hat Yai.- Type: City with 61,800 residents
- Description: city in Songkhla province, Thailand
- Also known as: “Amphoe Muang Songkhla”, “Changwat Songkhla”, “Monthon Nakhon Si Thamarat”, “Monthon Nakhon Si Thammarat”, “Muang Sawng Kla”, “Muang Songkhla”, “Muang Songkla”, “Sawng Kla”, “Senggora”, “Singora”, “Singorra”, “Songkhla City Municipality”, “Sung Kla”, “นครสงขลา”, “སོང་ཁ་ལ་”, and “テーサバーンナコーン・ソンクラー”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Songkhla National Museum and Mahavajiravudh Songkhla.
Songkhla
- Categories: thesaban nakhon and locality
- Location: Mueang Songkhla, Songkhla Province, Thailand, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
7.1973° or 7° 11′ 50″ north
Longitude
100.5932° or 100° 35′ 36″ east
Population
61,800
Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)
IATA airport code
SGZ
UN/LOCODE
TH SGZ
Open location code
6PV25HWV+W7
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Songkhla” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Songkhla”
- Amharic: “ሶንግክላ”
- Arabic: “سونجخلا”
- Arabic: “سونغكلا”
- Asturian: “Songkhla”
- Azerbaijani: “Songkhla”
- Belarusian: “Сангхла”
- Bengali: “সংখলা”
- Burmese: “Singgora”
- Burmese: “ဆောင်ခလာမြို့”
- Cebuano: “Songkhla”
- Chinese: “宋卡”
- Chinese: “宋卡市”
- Czech: “Songkhla”
- Danish: “Songkhla”
- Dutch: “Songkhla”
- French: “Songkhla”
- German: “Songkhla”
- Hausa: “Songkhla”
- Hebrew: “סונגלה”
- Hindi: “सोंगखला”
- Hindi: “सोंगख्ला”
- Iban: “Songkhla”
- Indonesian: “Songkhla”
- Irish: “Songkhla”
- Italian: “Songkhla”
- Japanese: “ソンクラー”
- Javanese: “Songkhla”
- Kazakh: “Сонғқла”
- Kirghiz: “Songkhla”
- Korean: “송클라”
- Lithuanian: “Songkhla”
- Lithuanian: “Songkla”
- Malay: “Singgora”
- Malay: “Songkhla”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Songkhla”
- Norwegian: “Songkhla”
- Oromo: “Songkhla”
- Panjabi: “ਸੋਂਗਖਲਾ”
- Pattani Malay: “Singgora”
- Persian: “سongخلا”
- Persian: “سونگخلا”
- Persian: “سونگکلا”
- Polish: “Songkhla”
- Portuguese: “Songkhla”
- Pushto: “سونگخلا”
- Russian: “Сонгкхла”
- Scots: “Songkhla”
- Somali: “Songkhla”
- Spanish: “Songkhla”
- Swahili: “Songkhla”
- Swedish: “Songkhla”
- Tajik: “Сонғқла”
- Tatar: “Songkhla”
- Tatar: “Соңкла”
- Thai: “เทศบาลนครสงขลา”
- Thai: “สงขลา”
- Tibetan: “སོང་ཁ་ལ།”
- Turkish: “Songkhla”
- Ukrainian: “Сонгкхла”
- Urdu: “سونگکھلا”
- Uzbek: “Songkhla”
- Vietnamese: “Songkhla”
- Vietnamese: “Thành phố Songkhla”
- Waray (Philippines): “Songkhla”
- Western Panjabi: “سونگکھلا”
- Wu Chinese: “宋卡市”
- Yue Chinese: “宋卡”
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