Locals call Bangkok by a shortened version of its real name, Krung Thep.

What is the real name of Bangkok? Bangkok’s full name is pronounced something like this:

Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit.

If you’d like to hear a local recite it, have a listen below.

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If you want to sound like a local, this is what you should be saying when you want to talk about Bangkok:

And if you’re interested, here is the translation:

The city of angels, the great city, the eternal jewel city, the impregnable city of God Indra, the grand capital of the world endowed with nine precious gems, the happy city, abounding in an enormous Royal Palace that resembles the heavenly abode where reigns the reincarnated god, a city given by Indra and built by Vishnukarma.

Here is the name in Thai script on a government building in Bangkok, กรุงเทพมหานคร อมรรัตนโกสินทร์ มหินทรายุธยามหาดิลก ภพนพรัตน์ ราชธานีบุรีรมย์ อุดมราชนิเวศน์ มหาสถาน อมรพิมาน อวตารสถิต สักกะทัตติยะ วิษณุกรรมประสิทธิ์, luckily they don’t have to write that on everything, usually it’s just referred to as กรุงเทพ.