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Hat Yai (also Haad Yai / Had Yai) is a city in southern Thailand near the boundary to Malaysia. Geographical location 7°1′N, 100°28′E. With a population of 155,585 (2005)… Read More

Wikipedia InfoboxOn his blog "Words and what not", Gerard Meijssen is showing and advocating the many possible uses of Wikidata beyond what most Wikipedia users know so far. By collecting th… Read More

This article is about the city Chiang Mai. For other uses, see Chiang Mai (disambiguation). A street scene in Chiang Mai, showing (centre right), a gate of the old city wall. Looki… Read More

This article is about the city Chiang Mai. For other uses, see Chiang Mai (disambiguation). A street scene in Chiang Mai, showing (centre right), a gate of the old city wall. Looki… Read More

Chiang Rai is both a city and a province in Thailand. For the province, see Chiang Rai Province. Mueang Chiang Rai, showing the ancient city walls and more recent gates : Pratu Nang Ing (… Read More

The Department of Provincial Administration has announced the number of administrative subdivisions as of December 31st and the population. As I already mentioned the latest population figur… Read More

Yesterday, the national reform council (สภาขับเคลื่อนการปฏิรู… Read More

The latest edition of annual statistical yearbook was published in October 2016, though I just noticed it to be available online. Sadly, not the full PDF file can be downloaded, only a versi… Read More

Last month, the Department of Provincial Administration announced the numbers of administrative units as of December 31 2016. The announcement - titled แจ้งข… Read More

The Department of Local Administration has updated their list of the local administrations, now being as of March 31 2017. The actual numbers haven't changed since the last update, as the la… Read More

It took a bit longer than expected to work through the Excel sheets published by DOLA recently to extract the data from there and compile it to be used in my XML files. There were quite a lo… Read More

The book "The Constitutional System of Thailand: A Contextual Analysis" by Andrew Harding and Peter Leyland is on the list of books I intend to buy for some time already, yet both its relati… Read More

Back in 2015, I blogged about the 13 must-do things in Krabi. Thailand (Link: HERE). Krabi is like my To-go place. I love how convenient it is to travel and walk around with the beautiful ho… Read More

Normally, the Department of Local Administration updates their list of the local governments once a year at around the end of the fiscal year in October. Oddly, this year there was an update… Read More

To round up the annual statistics announcements, today the Department of Provincial Administration did publish the numbers of administrative units. The numbers are as follows, with the 2016… Read More

Language Exchange Chiang Mai… I first heard about the Chiang mai language exchange group back in 2015 from Daniel Styles. Since then Daniel relocated (but still shows up on occasion)… Read More

The issue why the province governors are all appointed officials sent by the Ministry of Interior and not elected directly by the citizens of the respective province - like it is the case in… Read More

The Department of Provincial Administration has published the latest statistics of the numbers of administrative units in Thailand, as of December 31st 2018. The numbers are as follows, with… Read More

The Department of Provincial Administration has published the latest statistics of the numbers of administrative units in Thailand, as of December 31st 2019. The numbers are as follows, with… Read More

When the new province of Bueng Kan was created in 2011, there was one thing which was strikingly different to the previous batch of province creation - the capital of the province wasn't mad… Read More

 Last year I sadly neglected this blog quite a bit, at first it was a quiet time, and then a serious sickness kept me from working on this project. In the second half of 2020 a bit more… Read More

 Last week, DOPA published their annual statistics with the numbers of the various subdivisions. The only changes are in the numbers of the local governments due to some municipal upgra… Read More