A 4km (2 1 / 2 mile) long croissant de plage à 15km (9 miles) à l'ouest de la ville de Phuket est la plus moderne, plus rapide-entraîné et, diront certains, le Bost développé des plages de Phuket.
The name Phuket (of which the ph sound is an aspirated p) is apparently derived from the word bukit in Malay which means "hill", as this is what the island appears like from a distance.