Pattaya

English Etymology en th พัทยา. Proper noun en resort city dist/Bang Lamung p/Chonburi c/Thailand. en Inside the world's sex capital: City dubbed ‘modern day Sodom and Gomorrah’ with highest number of prostitutes anywhere 2017-02-16 w:Daily Mirror Chris Baynes https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/inside-worlds-sex-capital-city-9834233 Pattaya has a reported 27,000 prostitutes, roughly one for every five people living permanently in the east-coast city that has been likened to a modern-day Sodom and Gomorrah. https://web.archive.org/web/20260829102254/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/inside-worlds-sex-capital-city-9834233 29 August 2026 en 2019 Luke Williams (journalist) Luke Williams Down and Out in Paradise: East, West, Sex, Death Echo 9781760686307 Pattaya transitioned from fishing village to open-air brothel. The western-style strip club married the Asian harem: the successful Titty Palace, Purring Pussy, Pussy Galore. Translations city in Thailand Arabic: ar بَتَّايَا f, ar بَاتَّايَا f Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 芭提雅 Hindi: hi पटाया Khmer: km ផាត់ថាយ៉ា, km ប៉ាតាយ៉ា Lao: lo ພັດທະຍາ Persian: Iranian Persian: fa-ira پاتایا Russian: ru Патта́йя f Thai: th พัทยา pát-tá-yaa