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scorpio1945, on 2010-09-26 12:39:11, said:

Half-right. The Tambon is a central administrative subdivision, the official translation for Tambon is subdistrict. It only has a headman, elected among the village headmen within the Tambon by a popular vote. However, for many Tambon they have exactly the same area as a local administrative unit with an elected chairman and council. Rop Wiang is not like this, part of the Tambon belongs to the city (Thesaban Nakhon) of Chiang Rai, and the remaining part has a Tambon Administrative Organization (TAO or Oh.Bo.To).

scorpio1945, on 2010-09-26 12:39:11, said:

Often, the dots in Google fall on the building of the local administration within the subdistrict, but sometimes the dots just points randomly into the Tambon. As there are Tambon which have two local government units - both a TAO and a Thesaban usually - there actually should be two dots then. As usually the office is in the largest Muban of the Tambon, and often the Tambon is named after the main Muban (or vice-versa) it can be the case that the Google dots really points to Ban Mengrai, as Mu 10 of Tambon Mengrai is actually named Ban Mengrai.

Phaya Mengrai is an Amphoe, but it is also the name of a local government unit, a subdistrict municipality (Thesaban Tambon) which covers parts of Tambon Mengrai and Mae Pao. And to confuse even more, the TAO Mengrai which covers the remaining subdistrict has been upgraded to a subdistrict municipality as well recently.

JetsetBkk, on 2010-08-06 17:25:48, said:

The writer of the article at the Public Relations Department was apparently confused as well - 86,162 is the population of the district Bueng Kan (and 833,85 square kilometer its area). But this district will just become the Mueang district of the new province, the other 7 districts were totally forgotten in that article. So except the nonsense "s" The Nation had it right.

grimmbro, on 2010-08-04 19:23:40, said:

Province court. The province hall is supposed to be built a bit away from those two within the wetland area - anyone have the coordinates of that plot of land?

grimmbro, on 2010-08-04 19:23:40, said:

That one was shelved quite fast, it was one of the last things PM Thaksin initiated, so after the coup it was not further considered. As it was intended as a "birthday gift" to HM the King on his 80th birthday, with that date now long over this main reason for that province has disappeared. I blogged about it some time ago: http://tambon.blogsp...es-hua-hin.html

Another province creation aborted was Nakhon Suvarnabhumi, also started by Thaksin and then shelved after the coup. http://tambon.blogsp...ces-nakhon.html As far as I know, none of the other provinces suggested in the recent past have gone as close to being created as these two, but there are/were several plans for news provinces: Fang, Mae Sot, Phra Narai (by splitting Lopburi), Phu Wiang, to name just the one I know about.

sabaijai, on 2010-08-04 03:20:36, said:

You are talking about the building next to the district office of Bueng Kan, right? That is NOT a provincial hall (Sala Klang Changwat), it is the provincial court (San Changwat). Despite the name, there are more provincial courts than provinces, the larger provinces can have two or three of them. The fact that Bueng Kan already has a court was one of the reasons why the creation of the new province was approved.

thedivezone, on 2010-08-04 02:24:32, said:

On the traffic signs บึงกาฬ is probably spelled Bueng Kan, since that is the RTGS standard transcription. In an earlier version of the standard, it would have been Bung Kan, and "Karn" is just another inofficial but relatively popular way to transcribe a syllable closed with a N sound.