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Pakse

South-eastern Asia

Pakse, also written Pakxe, is the capital and most populous city of Champasak Province in southern Laos. Its Lao name means mouth of the river, and the city stands at the confluence of the Xe Don and the Mekong. The district had about 77,900 inhabitants at the 2015 Laotian census. The French established an administrative outpost at Pakse in 1905, and the city served as the capital of the Lao Kingdom of Champasak until 1946, when the Kingdom of Laos was formed. Today it is a centre of the Laotian Chinese community, many of its businesses being owned by Laotians of Chinese ancestry. Most residents are Buddhist, and Wat Luang, built in 1935, is the largest temple in the city. Pakse has a tropical savanna climate with a wet season from April to October and a dry season from November to March.

Facts
Population
77,900 1
Elevation Band
Lowland 2
Climate Zone
Tropical 3
Time Zone
UTC+07:00 4
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1. Pakse (source article)
  • Lead, first paragraph (district figure)
    the district had a population of approximately 77,900 at the 2015 Laotian census
  • Part Of: Laos, Lead, first sentence
    is the capital and most populous city of the southern Laotian province of Champasak
  • On Continent: Asia, Lead, first sentence (continent follows from the country)
    is the capital and most populous city of the southern Laotian province of Champasak
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2. Open-Meteo: Open-Meteo Elevation API: elevation at Pakse coordinates
Open-MeteoJSON elevation
Quote, JSON elevation
"elevation": [ 95.0 ]
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3. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 15.25, 105.75
Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 15.25, 105.75
15.25 105.75 Aw
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4. GeoNames: Pakse - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 1654379, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
Quote, cities500 record 1654379, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
15.12022 105.79898 P PPLA LA 02 77900 105 Asia/Vientiane
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