Vientiane

Vientiane is the capital of , with stunning temples, vibrant night markets, beautiful French-Indochinese architecture, lively street food stalls, and traditional craft markets.
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  • City with 783,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 174 metres (571 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code VTE
  • Description: capital of Laos
  • Also known as
    “Bientani”
    “Nakhon Viangchan”
    “urban Vientiane”
    “Viang chan”
    “Vieṅ Čan”
    “Vien Chang”
    “Vienchan”
    “Vieng-Cæn”
    “Vieṅg-Čăn”
    “Vieng-Chan”
    “Vientane”
    “Vyentyan”
    “Wei-t’ien”
    “Wiangcan”
    “Wīangčhan”
Aleksey Gnilenkov, CC BY 2.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Patuxai and Laos National Stadium.
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is a war monument in Downtown Vientiane, , built between 1957 and 1968.
Chaoborus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The or formally Anouvong…
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also written as Ho Prakeo, Hor Pha Keo…

Vientiane

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Latitude
17.9641° or 17° 57′ 51″ north
Longitude
102.6134° or 102° 36′ 48″ east
UN/LOCODE
LA VTE
Open location code
7P94XJ77+J8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 122739684
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1651944
Wiki­data ID
Q9326

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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Vientiane” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Vientiane”
  • Afrikaans: “Vientiane”
  • Albanian: “Vientiane”
  • Amharic: “ቭየንትዬን”
  • Arabic: “فيينتيان”
  • Aragonese: “Vientiane”
  • Armenian: “Վիենտյան”
  • Armenian: “Վյենտյան”
  • Arpitan: “Vientiane”
  • Assamese: “ভিয়েনটিয়েন”
  • Asturian: “Vientián”
  • Azerbaijani: “Vyentyan”
  • Balinese: “Vientiane”
  • Banjar: “Wiangcan”
  • Bashkir: “Вьентьян”
  • Basque: “Vientian”
  • Belarusian: “В’енцьян”
  • Belarusian: “Венцьян”
  • Belarusian: “Віент’ян”
  • Bengali: “ভিয়েনতিয়েন”
  • Betawi: “Wiang Cendana”
  • Bosnian: “Vientiane”
  • Breton: “Vientiane”
  • Bulgarian: “Виентян”
  • Burmese: “ဗီယင်ကျန်းမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Vientiane”
  • Cebuano: “Biyentiyan”
  • Cebuano: “Biyentiyang urbano”
  • Cebuano: “Vientiane”
  • Central Bikol: “Biyentiyan”
  • Central Bikol: “Vientiane”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڤیێنتیان”
  • Chechen: “Вьентьян”
  • Chinese: “万象”
  • Chinese: “永珍”
  • Chuvash: “Вьентьян”
  • Corsican: “Vientiane”
  • Croatian: “Vientiane”
  • Czech: “Viangchan”
  • Czech: “Vientiane”
  • Danish: “Vientiane”
  • Dutch: “Vientiane”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فيينتيان”
  • Esperanto: “Vianĉano”
  • Esperanto: “Vjentiano”
  • Estonian: “Viangchan”
  • Estonian: “Vientiane”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Vientiane”
  • Fijian: “Vientiane”
  • Finnish: “Vientiane”
  • French: “Vientiane”
  • Galician: “Vientiane”
  • Georgian: “ვიენტიანი”
  • German: “Vientiane”
  • Greek: “Βιεντιάν”
  • Guarani: “Vientiã”
  • Gujarati: “વિયેટિએન”
  • Gujarati: “વિયેંટિએન”
  • Gujarati: “વિયેન્ટિએન”
  • Haitian: “Vyantyàn”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Vieng Chan”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Vientiane”
  • Hausa: “Vientiane”
  • Hebrew: “ויינטיאן”
  • Hindi: “विअंग् चन्”
  • Hindi: “वियंगचान”
  • Hindi: “वियनतियान”
  • Hindi: “वियनतियाने”
  • Hindi: “वीयंगचान”
  • Hungarian: “Vientián”
  • Iban: “Vientiane”
  • Icelandic: “Vientiane”
  • Ido: “Vientiane”
  • Iloko: “Bientian”
  • Iloko: “Vientiane”
  • Inari Sami: “Vientiane”
  • Indonesian: “Vientiane”
  • Interlingue: “Vientiane”
  • Irish: “Vientiane”
  • Italian: “Vianciana”
  • Italian: “Vientiane”
  • Japanese: “ヴィエンチャン”
  • Japanese: “ヴィエンチャン市”
  • Japanese: “ヴィエンチャン特別市”
  • Japanese: “ビエンチャン”
  • Japanese: “ビエンティアン”
  • Kannada: “ವಿಅಂಗ್ ಚನ್”
  • Kannada: “ವಿಯೆನ್ ಟಿಯೇನ್”
  • Kannada: “ವಿಯೆನ್ಟಿಯಾನೆ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Ventyan”
  • Kazakh: “Вьентьян”
  • Khmer: “នគរវៀងច័ន្ទន៍”
  • Khmer: “វាំងចន្ទន៍”
  • Khmer: “វៀងច័ន្ទន៍”
  • Kirghiz: “Bьeнтьян”
  • Kirghiz: “Вьентьян”
  • Komering: “Vientiane”
  • Korean: “비엔티안”
  • Korean: “비엔티엔”
  • Kurdish: “Vientiane”
  • Lao: “Viangchan”
  • Lao: “ວຽງຈັນ”
  • Latin: “Vientiana”
  • Latvian: “Vjenčana”
  • Ligurian: “Vientiane”
  • Lingala: “Vientiane”
  • Lithuanian: “Vientianas”
  • Livvi: “Vjentjan”
  • Lombard: “Vientiane”
  • Luxembourgish: “Vientiane”
  • Macedonian: “Виентијан”
  • Magahi: “वियनतियान”
  • Maithili: “भियनटियान”
  • Malagasy: “Vientiane”
  • Malay: “Vientiane”
  • Malayalam: “വിയന്റിയൻ”
  • Maltese: “Vientiane”
  • Marathi: “व्हिआंतियान”
  • Mazanderani: “وینتیان”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Vientiane”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Vientiane”
  • Minangkabau: “Vientiane”
  • Mingrelian: “ვიენტიანი”
  • Mirandese: “Vienciana”
  • Mirandese: “Vientiane”
  • Moksha: “Виентьян”
  • Mongolian: “Вьентьян”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ڤيينتان”
  • Navajo: “Tsinłání Bináʼátłʼinii”
  • Nepali: “भियनटियान”
  • Northern Frisian: “Vientiane”
  • Northern Luri: “وینتیان”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Vientiane”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vientiane”
  • Norwegian: “Vientiane”
  • Novial: “Vientiane”
  • Nyanja: “Vientiane”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Viengchan”
  • Ossetian: “Вьентьян”
  • Pa'o Karen: “ဝေင်ꩻဗီယန်ထျန်း”
  • Panjabi: “ਵਿਆਂਗ ਚਾਨ”
  • Papiamento: “Vientiane”
  • Persian: “وینتیان”
  • Piemontese: “Vientiane”
  • Polish: “Wientian”
  • Portuguese: “Vienciana”
  • Portuguese: “Vientiane”
  • Pushto: “وینتیان”
  • Romanian: “Vientiane”
  • Russia Buriat: “Вьентьян”
  • Russian: “Вьентьян”
  • Sakizaya: “Yung-cen”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱷᱤᱭᱮᱱᱛᱤᱭᱮᱱ”
  • Sardinian: “Vientiane”
  • Scots: “Vientiane”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Vientiane”
  • Serbian: “Вијентијан”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Vientiane”
  • Shona: “Vientiane”
  • Sicilian: “Vientiane”
  • Silesian: “Wjentjan”
  • Sindhi: “ويانچان”
  • Sinhala: “වියන්ශියෙන්”
  • Sinhala: “වියෙන්ටියනේ”
  • Sinhala: “වියෙන්ටියානේ”
  • Slovak: “Vientian”
  • Slovenian: “Vientiane”
  • Spanish: “Vientián”
  • Spanish: “Vientiane”
  • Swahili: “Vientiane”
  • Swedish: “Vientiane”
  • Tagalog: “Biyentiyan”
  • Tagalog: “Biyentiyang urbano”
  • Tagalog: “Vientian”
  • Tajik: “Вентян”
  • Tajik: “Вйентян”
  • Talysh: “Ventjan”
  • Tamil: “வியஞ்சான்”
  • Tamil: “விவேண்டியனே”
  • Tamil: “விவேண்டியன்”
  • Telugu: “వియన్శాన్”
  • Thai: “กรุงเวียงจันทน์”
  • Thai: “เวียงจันทน์”
  • Tibetan: “ཝིན་ཆིའང་”
  • Turkish: “Vientiane”
  • Turkish: “Viyentiyan”
  • Udmurt: “Вьентьян”
  • Uighur: “Wyéntyan”
  • Ukrainian: “В’єнтьян”
  • Ukrainian: “Вєнтьян”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Vientiane”
  • Urdu: “وینتیان”
  • Uzbek: “Ventyan”
  • Venetian: “Vientiane”
  • Veps: “V’jent’jan”
  • Veps: “Vjentjan”
  • Vietnamese: “Viêng Chăn”
  • Vietnamese: “Viêng Quý” (historical)
  • Volapük: “Viengtjan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Biyentiyan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Vientiane”
  • Welsh: “Vientiane”
  • Western Frisian: “Wiën Tsjan”
  • Western Panjabi: “وینتیان”
  • Wu Chinese: “万象”
  • Yoruba: “Vientiane”
  • Yue Chinese: “永珍”
  • Zhuang: “Fanhyiengh”
  • Zulu: “i-Vientiane”
  • “Vianchan”

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