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Changwat, Amphoe, Tambon
http://tambon.blogspot.com
History and current developements on the administrative subdivisions of Thailand
Recent Posts
Nakhon Sawan municipality office
While adding the locations of the administrative entities into my XMLs in order to have the automatically created map as full as possible, flying to Nakhon Sawan with Google Earth to my surprised showed a 3d model of the municipality office. As I wa...
New district in Bangkok forthcoming
In petition ๐๘๕/ร the member of parliament and former Deputy Minister of Public Health Wichan Meenchaiyanant (นายวิชาญ มีนชัยนันท์), he asks for improvements in the government of Bangkok. While I don't ge...
Tambon maps inaccuracy
Rarely plagiarizing blogs have some good effects, but in this case it helped me to reread an article where I missed an interesting point at first reading months ago. The Huai Hee village blog copied an article without giving any sources, and as I vag...
Village headman life in the deep south
Yesterday I discovered the website deepsouthwatch featuring independent news on the three southernmost Muslim provinces troubled by the insurgency since 2004. Most welcome is of course the English section of the site. I only checked the captions yest...
DOPA and DOLA
Since I am often referring to the website of the Department of Provincial Administration (DOPA), I should maybe write about this government structure a bit. DOPA (กรมการปกครอง) is one of the departments of the Ministry of Int...
Etymology of district name Hot
The origins of place names sometimes quite interesting. I have stumbled upon the one for the district Hot in Chiang Mai reading a book I did not expect to find anything on the administrative entities - Sacred Mountains Of Northern Thailand And Their ...

