Songkurai
Song Karia
ซองกาเรีย Songkurai | |
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Village | |
Bridge building at Camp Songkurai (1943) | |
| Coordinates: 15°13′00″N 98°26′43″E / 15.2167°N 98.4453°E | |
| Country | Thailand |
| Province | Kanchanaburi |
| District | Sangkhla Buri |
| Tambon | Nong Lu |
| Time zone | UTC+7 (ICT) |
Ban Song Karia (Thai: บ้านซองกาเรีย), also spelled Songkalia (ซองกาเลีย) and alternatively known as Songkurai (from Japanese: ソンクライ), is a village in the Sangkhla Buri District of the Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand near the border with Myanmar at the Three Pagodas Pass. It was the location of three World War II Japanese Prisoner of War Camps located about 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) south of the Thai/Burma border.