Muang Phiang

Muang Phiang
Muang Phiang
	Town
	Muang Phiang
	Coordinates: 19°06′15″N101°31′48″E / 19.10417°N 101.53000°E
Country	Laos
Province	Sainyabuli Province
Time zone	Laos Standard Time (UTC+7)

Last updated April 26, 2019

Muang Phiang is a town in Sainyabuli Province, Laos. It is located along the main road (Route 4, southwest of Sainyabuli. The area surrounding it is mainly paddy fields.^[1]

Xayabuli is a province of Laos, located in the northwest of the country. Xayabuli Province covers an area of 16,389 square kilometres (6,328 sq mi). The province borders Bokeo Province and Oudomxai Province to the north, Luang Prabang Province and Vientiane Province to the east, and the Thai provinces Loei, Phitsanulok, Uttaradit, Nan and Phayao.

Laos, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic, commonly referred to by its colloquial name of Muang Lao, is a socialist state and the only landlocked country in Southeast Asia. Located at the heart of the Indochinese peninsula, Laos is bordered by Myanmar (Burma) and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the southwest, and Thailand to the west and southwest.

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References

↑ Evans, Grant (1988). Agrarian Change in Communist Laos. Institute of Southeast Asian. p. 75. ISBN 978-981-3035-16-4 . Retrieved 1 January 2013.

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[Evans1988-1] Evans, Grant (1988). Agrarian Change in Communist Laos. Institute of Southeast Asian. p. 75. ISBN 978-981-3035-16-4 . Retrieved 1 January 2013.