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A planned subdistrict in Phitsanulok?
The file titled ccaatt by the Department of Provincial Administration (DOPA) contains all of the geocodes for the central government entites - provinces, districts and subdistricts. There are also som...
TAO upgrades to municipalities
In the last two month the upgrade of 200 TAO to municipalities was decided, so even in just this short time nearly twice the number of the whole fiscal year 2007. And even in 2007 it was an extraordin...
Muban geocodes
The geocodes for provinces, district and subdistricts include another two digits at the end for the villages (muban, หมู่บ้าน). The villages itself had a numerical code long before tha...
Various geocode systems for Thailands subdivisions
For all my purposes I am using the geocode system from the Ministry of Interior, with the two digit numbers for the provinces, four digits for district, six for the subdistricts. It's simply the easie...
Regions of Thailand in the 1950s
As mentioned before, the four regions which existed in the 1940s were changed into 9 regions in 1951. What makes this interesting comes clear when one compares the regions with geocodes of the provinc...
Thai standard 1099-2548
The Thai standard TIS 1099-2535 did only cover the provinces and assigned them two-digit geocodes. In 2005 a second version of the standard was issued, which also includes the districts (Amphoe) and s...
Incomplete geocodes list down to village level
Google helped me to find a collection of some text files containing several geocodes, however only for 14 of the 75 provinces. The thing makes these lists different from the ccaatt list from DOPA - th...
Thai standard 1099-2535
Just found on Bact's blog a link to the Thai national standard TIS 1099-2535, which defines the two-digit geocodes for the provinces. This standard, published in 1992, is in fact identical with ISO 31...
Geocodes for the municipalities
Not only the central administration entities province (changwat), district (amphoe) and subdistrict (tambon) have geocodes, but also the local administration at municipal (thesaban) level. In 2006 I h...
Missing Geocodes
The list of geocodes contains several obsolete geocodes, most of them are the codes of the districts (and their constituent subdistricts) of the provinces Sa Kaeo, Amnat Charoen and Nongbua Lamphu bef...
District geocodes
The Department of provincial administration (DOPA) uses a list of geocodes for each of the provinces, districts and subdistricts, modeled after the ISO 3166-2 codes of the provinces. Newly created ent...
Planned new districts?
When I was searching for information on Sakha Tambon (สาขาตำบล), I run across a set of lists with the geocodes at the website of the Thai Rak Thai party. That website is now offline as...