2021-03-21 12:00
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
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A blog about the administrative subdivisions of Thailand.
2021-01-15 12:00
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
2020-12-04 12:00
A month ago I noticed that a new external identifier was added to some of the Thai provinces, taken from the GADM subdivision maps. From the rudimentary info on the GADM website - which even… Read More
2020-06-18 10:30
Shortly after the coup in 2014, all local elections were suspended and all the chairmen and councillors stayed in office way past their elected terms - most of them till today. Even though t… Read More
2020-04-07 10:30
The number of municipal upgrades is increasing this year, after it was very quiet for several years. There were none at all in 2016 till 2018, and nine in 2019. The following changes have be… Read More
2020-03-26 12:00
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
2020-03-23 16:17
A reader notified me that the Department of Local Administration (DLA) also updated their statistics page with December 20th as its reference date. What was confusing is that the numbers of… Read More
2020-03-04 12:00
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
2019-07-11 15:36
I have neglected the blog for the past half year - kept myself busy with some other projects on Wikidata, but also not much happened with the subdivisions lately as politics was apparently p… Read More
2019-02-20 14:29
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
2018-09-20 11:00
Yesterday, the Royal Gazette contained the announcement on the number of constituencies for each province for the long-delayed first election after the coup, to be held early next year (unle… Read More
2018-09-12 11:03
I was recently contacted by an adoptee who was trying to find out more about her origin in Thailand. Her translated birth certificate gives the following locationVillage 10, Don Cheetuan, Do… Read More
2018-09-07 11:09
The Department of Provincial Administration has uploaded a new version of their ID lists, dated from August 30. Comparing them with the previous version from December last year only shows tw… Read More
2018-08-28 11:00
In the meeting number 35 on July 25th, the board to consider draft laws discussed the renaming of TAO Na Duang (องค์การบริห… Read More
2018-05-08 11:00
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
2018-04-26 13:59
It is totally quiet with any changes of the civil administrative subdivisions, so to fill the void here its a good distraction that just yesterday the Vatican has erected a new ecclesial sub… Read More
2018-03-16 12:00
The fact that a good graphical display of data is usually more important (and more difficult) than the collection of the bare data was one thing I learned from the talks in the Wikidata Con… Read More
2018-03-02 12:00
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
2018-02-27 12:00
Last Friday, the population numbers for each province were officially announced in the Royal Gazette. The numbers were already online on January 1st on stat.dopa.go.th as reported here… Read More
2018-01-18 12:00
A German-language news post about a recent cabinet decision trying to increase the birth rate reminded me that I wanted to post about the age distribution in Thailand already. The DOPA stati… Read More
2018-01-04 12:00
The new year started the same way as the last year ended considering the Royal Gazette announcements - both the final one and the first announcements by the Fine Arts Department on historica… Read More
2018-01-03 12:06
When I yesterday mentioned the geocodes missing in the October update of the ccaatt spreadsheet, I forgot to check whether there is a new version of these spreadsheet online already. Sadly t… Read More
2018-01-02 12:14
Directly on New Year, the population data as of December 31st 2017 was made online on the DOPA website, giving the population numbers for each province, district and subdistrict. Sadly, its… Read More
2017-12-20 12:00
Last week the 131th National Park became officially established by publishing the Royal Act in the government gazette. The park covers an area of 354 km² of Chiang Mai and Lamphun provi… Read More
2017-12-08 12:00
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
2017-11-28 12:00
Yesterday, the background graphic for the license plates in Yala have been announced in the Royal Gazette. This is apparently the first-ever such graphic for Yala since the first such graphi… Read More
2017-11-17 13:25
One administrative unit I very much neglected so far are the Tambon Councils (สภาตำบล), both because they were just a council consisting only of ex… Read More
2017-11-13 12:00
The first WikidataCon was a very impressive conference which gave me quite a lot of new ideas on my small niche of topic in that vast database, but also on all the huge other possibilities a… Read More
2017-11-10 12:00
Election poster from the 2008Surat Thani PAO electionThe local election became officially suspended after the coup by the 85th and 86th NCPO announcement in July 2014, though actually the fe… Read More
2017-11-06 12:00
The merger of Wang Nuea TAO with Wang Nuea municipality I mentioned three weeks ago was officially announced in the Royal Gazette last Friday. The order was signed on October 6, one month af… Read More
2017-10-24 11:00
Next weekend I'll attend the first Wikidata conference in Berlin, and despite being active for 14 years on Wikipedia now its the first ever conference on Wikipedia I'll visit. It was my Wiki… Read More
2017-10-17 12:16
There hasn't been any changes to the local governments since the upgrade of Pa Sak almost exactly two years ago, maybe due to the proposed abolish of the TAO level. However, in the meeting n… Read More
2017-10-05 11:00
On September 28th the Thai flag celebrated its centennial, which coincides with the timing of the latest Royal Gazette announcement on the Thai flag published yesterday, clarifying the Thai… Read More
2017-09-29 11:00
With the end of the fiscal year, its traditionally also the date on which the province governors get transferred to new provinces, or to other posts within the Ministry of Interior, as well… Read More
2017-09-20 11:10
Google books has scanned many very old reference books, but they are all only visible in the snippit mode, teasing enough to make sure its the resource one would need but still making it imp… Read More
2017-09-01 11:00
It seems the number of subdistricts (Khwaeng, แขวง) in Bangkok has just or will very soon be increased from 169 to 180. The Thai Wikipedia Potapt, who is very active… Read More
2017-08-25 11:00
Earlier this month, DOPA uploaded a new version of their geocode lists, this time changing the format to XLS files. Whereas the rcode file (containing codes for the municipalities) shows no… Read More
2017-08-21 11:00
The 1937 census reports include the male and female population numbers for each district (Amphoe), a table covering 30 pages in the publication. I have now completed to convert these numbers… Read More
2017-08-15 13:59
The Local Directory of 1940 (ทำเนียบท้องที่ พุทธศักรา……Read More
2017-08-07 11:00
The 1937 census report was published in five parts, which I was able to look into at the Pridi library last month. I scanned a lot of pages of those books, though only a small subset of the… Read More
2017-07-10 11:00
In preparation for my forthcoming annual visit to Thailand, I have checked with some of the online library catalogues whether there are any of the reference works I could use available in on… Read More
2017-06-30 11:00
The 3rd issue of the @Amphoe magazine was just published online earlier today, right on time that I will be able to pick the paper version this one together with the other issues from the pa… Read More
2017-06-23 11:00
Table A15 - Population for Urbanand rural size group, 1947Another interesting table found in the 1952 Statistical Yearbook are A15 and A16, which list the number of Tambon for each province… Read More
2017-06-15 11:00
After I had found an online resource with the census reports starting in 1960, I was trying to find the older data as well. However, the online library of the National Statistics Office does… Read More
2017-06-12 11:00
Royal decree creation Galyani Vadhana districtOne of the lesser known sites within the Wikipedia universe is Wikisource, which aims to collect and translate source texts which have their cop… Read More
2017-06-09 11:00
As its very quiet in the Royal Gazette regarding the administrative subdivision, I'd like to report the announcement of a new historical monument (เขตที่… Read More
2017-05-22 11:00
This years second edition of the @amphoe magazine has been made available as a PDF file (almost 50MB size), not sure whether it was this time uploaded before it gets available in the provinc… Read More
2017-05-19 11:00
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
2017-05-18 11:01
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
2017-05-11 11:00
I started this blog almost 10 years ago when I found a eBook which gave th romanized names for all provinces, districts and subdistricts, but was unable to contact anyone to get the obvious… Read More
2017-05-04 11:01
Today, the Royal Gazette contained an announcement which changes the boundaries of Ban Na Chumchon (บ้านนาชุมชน), Mu 8 of Sa… Read More
2017-04-28 11:00
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
2017-04-24 11:02
While the Thai news - at least in my filter bubble - is full of coverage and speculation of the disappearance of a brass plaque in Bangkok, I'd like to feature a kind of plaques which can be… Read More
2017-04-21 11:00
As I am almost through processing the annual population numbers based on the registration data - whoever needs the data in a machine-readable format can either look at my XML files or the sp… Read More
2017-04-13 11:00
In a kind of a deja-vu, there was an organized protest of village and subdistrict headmen in several provinces this week as the National Reform Steering Assembly has proposed to make an elec… Read More
2017-04-06 11:00
With the 20th announcement by the military junta of this year, and using the absolute power of article 44 of the interim constitution, on April 4th ten officials were reassigned to new posts… Read More
2017-04-05 11:15
Last month, the Department of Provincial Administration announced the numbers of administrative units as of December 31 2016. The announcement - titled แจ้งข… Read More
2017-04-04 11:00
The 12th issue of the @Amphoe magazine - dated February 2017 - has become available for download from the DOPA website. Sadly their Facebook page apparently does not get any updates any… Read More
2017-03-31 11:00
Population growth 2016As yesterday the official population numbers were published in the Royal Gazette - the announcement was signed on February 28, but the actual data were available online… Read More
2017-03-29 11:17
Last year, the annual report of the registered population added new columns which list the number of citizen with Thai nationality and the registered foreigners - those who have to go throug… Read More
2017-03-27 11:00
First page of Royal Gazette announcementWhile it is very quiet at the Royal Gazette concerning the administrative subdivisions, a lot of new protected areas get designated in the past months… Read More
2017-03-24 12:00
Yesterday the name change of an administrative village (Muban) in Trat was announced in the Royal Gazette. Mu 4 of Takang subdistrict, Mueang Trat district changed its name from Ban Noen Sun… Read More
2017-03-22 12:00
As far as I know, it is only the local governments and the provinces which officially have a seal with custom design fitting to the locality. The districts however use the emblem of the Mini… Read More
2017-03-20 12:00
Thanks to the online library of the National Statistical Office (NSO) I was already able to collect the population data from the censuses since 1960, all down to district level. Starting in… Read More
2017-03-15 12:00
There are two districts (Amphoe) in Thailand which have just one subdistrict (Tambon), and another four districts in Bangkok (Khet) which have one subdistrict (Khwaeng). As the two kinds of… Read More
2017-03-10 12:05
I haven't heard anything from the two planned districts to be created in Yala province since 2015, when the government news reported a confusing story which read like they were already creat… Read More
2017-03-03 12:00
Interestingly, I was asked several times lately to provide a full list of the administrative units - sometimes down to subdistrict level, sometimes to village level - for various purposes, f… Read More
2017-02-01 12:04
Don't worry, I won't talk about world politics - I am referring to a chaos starting on Wikipedia about the geographic items in Thailand. Just recently, one of the almost completely bot-fille… Read More
2017-01-24 12:08
2005 Thai editionTej Bunnag's book "The provincial administration of Siam from 1892 to 1915" was the first academic source I checked when I started writing about the topic in Wikipedia artic… Read More
2017-01-20 12:04
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
2017-01-16 12:03
The Facebook page of the @Amphoe magazine did not get any update since September, and at about the same time the @amphoe page at the Department of Provincial Administration disappeared. Both… Read More
2017-01-13 12:00
When I was first looking for the old census data, one of the online resource I found was the Open Data library of the Worldbank, which includes some documents from the 1970 census. Though no… Read More
2017-01-11 12:28
On December 27th four announcements regarding the colorful provincial license plates were published in the Royal Gazette. Samut Songkhram is about the last province which now has such a grap… Read More
2017-01-10 12:10
The last announcements of 2016 I had processed from the Royal Gazette were about protected areas, and the first of 2017 are again of the same category - another six new non-hunting areas (… Read More
2017-01-06 12:05
Already on January 2nd, the DOPA statistics website did show the registration data as of December 31, 2016 down to subdistrict level. According to these data, the population increased in 201… Read More
2017-01-02 12:00
Though they are not really connected to the administrative subdivisions, I am also collecting the protected areas in my XML files and thus also monitor the Royal Gazette for any newly declar… Read More
2016-12-05 12:09
Somehow I haven't noticed that on November 2 the geocode lists from the Department of Provincial Administration were updated. There were no changes in the codes for the central administrativ… Read More
2016-11-30 12:00
Yesterday, the Royal Gazette carried the first announcement related to the administrative subdivision for quite same time - the re-definition of the boundaries of Na Ngua subdistrict in Ban… Read More
2016-10-15 17:15
With the sad passing of HM King Bhumibol - my condolences to all Thai mourning him -, I noticed again that while there are several districts named after members of the Royal family, there so… Read More
2016-09-16 11:00
Again it was the Phuket Gazette which made me notice the second part of the province governor reshuffle, this time six reassignments approved by the cabinet in their meeting on Tuesday. The… Read More
2016-09-08 11:02
Gwillim Law, the author of the incredible website statoids.com, has passed away recently. I was lucky to be able to get a used copy of his book "Administrative Subdivisions of Countries" whe… Read More
2016-09-01 11:25
Earlier today, the change of name of one administrative village in Nakhon Sawan was announced in the Royal Gazette. Mu 5 of Yang Tan subdistrict, Khok Phra district, was renamed from Ban Ta… Read More
2016-08-26 11:00
Yesterday, the creation of a new administrative in Udon Thani was announced in tge Royal Gazette, becoming effective with its announcement. Mu 21 of Chiang Yuen subdistrict, Mueang Udon Than… Read More
2016-08-24 11:00
Yesterday, the national reform council (สภาขับเคลื่อนการปฏิรู… Read More
2016-08-18 15:08
Phuket Gazette reports that the province governor Chamroen Tipayapongtada has been assigned as the new governor of Nakhon Si Thammarat, notifying me that the annual reshuffle of the governor… Read More
2016-08-16 11:00
Some of the souvenirs I brought back from my recent visit in Thailand was the completion of my @amphoe collection. When I visited last year, the first issue was just out and the second came… Read More
2016-08-08 11:00
The administrative villages (Muban, หมู่บ้าน) are the central administrative subdivision for which it is most difficult to find authoritative… Read More
2016-06-23 11:00
Somehow I almost missed the announcement of yet another new administrative village last week, this time in Nakhon Sawan province. The Muban became effective with the publication in the Royal… Read More
2016-06-21 11:00
Today, the 29th announcement of the National Council for Peace and Order of this year (คำสั่งหัวหน้าคŨ……Read More
2016-06-15 08:37
Announced last week, five Muban were created in Nakhon Phanom effective April 11.Mu 11 of Ban Kaeng subdistrict, Na Kae district, Nakhon Phanom province, split from Mu 2 (Ban Kaeng, บ… Read More
2016-06-10 11:00
Another batch of new administrative villages was published yesterday. To be able to report them all here, I am splitting them into three postings - the Muban in Nakhon Phanom and Sakon Nakho… Read More
2016-06-08 11:00
One resource I so far neglected when collecting my data were the Statistical Yearbooks, published by the National Statistics Office (NSO) annually (in past sometimes bi-annually). Quite a lo… Read More
2016-05-27 11:00
Its not yet a year ago that a plan to create several new provinces has gone viral in the social networks, so that the Department of Provincial Administration had to post a correction. It see… Read More
2016-05-13 11:00
Yesterday, another three announcements were published in the Royal Gazette to formally create new administrative villages, this time in the provinces Lampang, Udon Thani and Ubon Ratchathani… Read More
2016-05-03 11:00
And another two new administrative villages announced last week, again based on the Ministerial Order มท ๐๓๑๐.๑/ว ๗๔๖๕… Read More
2016-04-22 11:00
Another two new administrative villages were announced yesterday, again based on the Ministerial Order มท ๐๓๑๐.๑/ว ๗๔๖๕……Read More
2016-04-12 11:00
Though not really connected to the administrative subdivisions, I also keep following the changes in the protected areas - National Parks, Wildlife Sanctuaries and so on - when these are pub… Read More
2016-03-25 12:00
Another three new administrative villages were announced in the Royal Gazette yesterday, again all based on the same ministerial order มท ๐๓๑๐.๑/… Read More
2016-03-23 12:00
Another four new administrative villages were announced in the Royal Gazette last week, again originating from the ministerial order มท ๐๓๑๐.๑/Ū……Read More
2016-03-15 12:06
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
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