Yala Province
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Yala is the southern most province of Thailand having Amphoe Betong as the southern most town, bordering on the Malaysia. Yala is a big city with graceful looking township are having a splendid city plan layout while its roads are large in size having a grand government [...]
Trang Province
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Trang or Tab Tiang Town is located some 828 kms. from Bangkok. It is another big city of the South, being the communication center to Nakhom Si Thammarat. Rubber plants have been firstly grown in this province by Phraya Rasdanupradit MahissaraPhakdi who got the seedling stocks from Malaysia. It had [...]
Surat Thani Province
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The name literally means “city of the good people” and is the former seat of the Sivichaya Empire. It is the largest and most important province of the South, located 644 kms. from Bangkok. It occupies an area of 12,891 square kilonetres bordering on Chumphon and the Gulf of [...]
Songkhla Province
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Songkhla is an eastern coastal province in southern Thailand covering some 7,150 square kilometres.
The provincial capital, also called Songkhla, is 950 kilormetres south of Bangkok. Songkhla was formerly known as Singha-la (Lion) by Indian, Persian and Arabian merchants since the small offshore Cat and Rat islands [...]
Satun Province
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Satun is a small province, one of the Southern Four Provinces where there are 80 percent of Thai Islamic population. It is very difficult to look for a pork dish, famous about its Ko Tarutao, the territory of pirates, beautiful Ko Adang-Rawi. Satun is located, [...]
Ranong Province
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The first Southern province bordering the Indian Ocean is Ranong, located some 568 kms. from Bangkok. Because it is Thailand’s rainiest province, and also its narrowest. The Kra Isthmus, the narrowest part of Malayan Peninsula is located here. Ranong is a long-narrow plot of land extending 169 kms. from north [...]
Phuket Province
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The Andaman coast is a different world compared to the rest of Thailand. Steady rainfall, which peaks during the north west monsoons (May-October), nourishes a huge variety of tropical fauna, with the lush canopy in some areas reaching as high as 80m. In many places, scenic rubber and coconut plantations [...]
Phatthalung Province
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Phatthalung is well known, in the South, as the town of the hollow hill. Located on Trang – Songkhla Highway some 840 kms. from Bangkok and 56 kms. from Trang. Entering into the township area of Phatthalung, on can see the hollow hill located in the hear t of the [...]
Phangnga Province
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Phangnga is a land of tin mines and beautiful scenery nestled among mountains which rise up around the town as if they were the town wall. The majority of the area is mountainous with very little basin area. Phangnga Covers the area of 4,170.9 square kilometres, 57% of which is [...]
Pattani Province
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Pattani was very famous in the old days as a town having a woman ruler. The biggest connon, ever casted in Thailand, has been casted here and named “Nang Phraya Tani”. The central mosque there is the most beautiful one in sounthern region being the center of [...]