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Muban names with or without Ban?
Most of the time when I get around the name of a muban it is preceded with the word Ban (บ้าน, House). However, if this Ban is actually part of the name, or if it is just a remnant of the term...
Book with list of all muban
I have been looking through the online book list of the Department of Provincial Administration (DOPA), which seem to mostly contain legal texts or handbooks for the officers in the provines. But I al...
Village creations announcement before gazetting
Earlier I mentioned that on the thaigov.go.th website I could find the decision on the creation of a new minor district, in the hope to find out about new such decision more timely than before.Now I j...
Tambon area clarifications revisited
Earlier I suspected that the announcements titled การกำหนดเขตตำบล only contained minor adjustments within the area of the subdistrict. As I have been going through all th...
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...
Muban list from DOPA?
In the command section of the website of the Department of Provincial Administration (DOPA) I just noticed one notable one titled ให้จังหวัดแจ้งอำเภอและเ...
Muban rename in Surin province
Published today in the Royal Gazette are two announcement renaming villages (muban) in Surin Province.Volume 125, Issue 70 ง on Page 156 is the rename of village 1 of subdistrict Samut, Prasat distr...
Muban creations in the Royal Gazette
I had been adding the Royal Gazette announcements concerning the villages (muban) into my scope of thing to monitor recently, as you could see by the so far two rename announcements of this year on th...
Muban rename
Published today in the Royal Gazette in Volume 125, Issue 64 ง on Page 154 is the rename of village 11 of subdistrict Nong Lak, Chai Wan district, Udon Thani province from Ban Nong Lak (บ้า...
Muban rename
As mentioned earlier, there were almost no changes in the central administrative units - province, district and subdistrict - for the last almost 10 years. But for the villages (muban) there is still ...
Number of administrative entities in the past
After I found the most up-to-date numbers of administrative entities at the Department of Provincial Administration (DOPA), comparing them with the numbers in the past can show some trends, like the s...