Fortress
Mahakan Fort
🇹🇭 Thailand · 18th century
Mahakan Fort (in Thai, ป้อมมหากาฬ) is a late 18th-century military structure, one of the two surviving ones that protected the then walled city of Bangkok (Thailand). Since 2018 the building has been preserved in restored form and the area around it is a public garden.
Machine-translated from “Fuerte Mahakan” on the Spanish Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mahakan Fort ranks #5,825 of 8,134 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #11 of the 17 mapped in Thailand. Founded 1783, it is older than 14% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 556 atlas entries founded in the 18th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,166 times in the last 60 days, more than 53% of the atlas. 10 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Bangkok, 1 km away. See how Thailand compares in the castle statistics.
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Where is Mahakan Fort?
Mahakan Fort stands in Thailand, at 13.75558°, 100.50554°.
When was Mahakan Fort built?
The atlas dates its founding to 1783. Earlier structures may have stood on the site; this is the earliest documented founding year.
How famous is Mahakan Fort?
In this atlas's fame ranking: #5,825 of 8,134 worldwide, and #11 in Thailand. Fame here combines how many Wikipedia language editions cover a landmark with how many people read them.
What is the nearest castle to Mahakan Fort?
Phra Sumen Fort, about 1 km away.
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