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Attapeu ( Lao: ອັດຕະປື [ʔát.tā.pɯ̀ː]) is a province of Laos in the southeast of the country. It has five districts: Samakkixay, Xaysetha, Sanamxay, Sanxay, and Phouvong, covering an area of 10,320 square kilometres (3,980 sq mi) with a population of 127,285. [3] Its capital city lies at Attapeu (Muang Samakkixay).
The 2018 Laos dam collapse was the collapse of Saddle Dam D, part of a larger hydroelectric dam system under construction in southeast Laos 's Champasak Province, on 23 July 2018. The dam collapse lead to widespread destruction and homelessness among the local population in neighbouring Attapeu Province. As of 25 September, 40 people were ...
Attapeu ( Lao: ອັດຕະປື, French pronunciation: [atapø] ), also written as Attopu or Attapu, is the capital of Attapeu province, Laos. Its official name is Muang Samakhi Xay. It is the southernmost of provincial capitals in Laos. Most of the inhabitants are Lao Loum. The temple of Wat Luang Muang Mai in the town centre was built in ...
Attapeu province: Samakkhixay District 153,000 10,320 14 LA-AT Bokeo province: Houayxay District (Ban Houayxay) 198,000 6,196 29 LA-BK Bolikhamxai province: Pakxan District 287,000 14,863 18 LA-BL Champasak province: Pakse District 706,000 15,415 45 LA-CH Houaphanh province: Xam Neua District 302,000 16,500 18 LA-HO
Sekong (also sometimes Xekong, Lao ເຊກອງ) is a province of Laos in the southeast of the country. Sekong province is the second smallest province in Laos and also one of its poorest, covering an area of 7,665 square kilometres (2,959 sq mi). It is bordered by Vietnam to the east, Attapeu province to the south, Salavan province to the ...
District. Third-level. Village. v. t. e. Laos is divided into 17 provinces ( Lao: ແຂວງ, khoueng) and 1 prefecture ( kampheng nakhon ), or capital city municipality (ນະຄອນຫຼວງ, nakhon luang ). Furthermore, 1 so-called special administrative zone (ເຂດພິເສດ, khet phiset) existed between 1994 and 2006, when ...
Nong Fa Lake or Nongphatom Lake ('Blue Lake') is a volcanic crater lake in the mountains of Sanxay District, Attapeu Province, southeastern Laos, in the Dong Ampham National Biodiversity Conservation Area, about 12 kilometres from the Vietnamese border. At an elevation of 1154 metres, the maximum depth of the lake is reportedly 78 metres ...
Laos, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR or LPDR), is the only landlocked country in Southeast Asia. At the heart of the Indochinese Peninsula , Laos is bordered by Myanmar and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the southeast, and Thailand to the west and southwest. [12]