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Lahan Sai District

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Country
  
Thailand

Postal code
  
31170

Area
  
735 km²

Province
  
Buriram Province

Time zone
  
ICT (UTC+7)

Geocode
  
3106

Population
  
70,825 (2008)

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Lahan Sai (Thai: ละหานทราย,  [lā.hǎːn sāːj]) is a district (amphoe) in the southern part of Buriram Province, northeastern Thailand.

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Map of Lahan Sai District, Buriram, Thailand

History

Lahan Sai area was originally part of Nang Rong district. The area was fertile and covered by dense forest, so people from neighboring districts moved to establish new village there. When the community grew bigger, the government created a minor district (king amphoe) on 1 January 1961 to make it more comfortable for the citizen to reach public services. The new district covered the tambon Lahan Sai and Pakham. It was upgraded to a full district on 17 July 1963.

Etymology

Lahan Sai means "plain fertile width hog deer" (Axis porcinus).

Geography

Neighboring districts are (from the southwest clockwise) Ta Phraya of Sa Kaeo Province, Non Din Daeng, Pakham, Nang Rong, Chaloem Phra Kiat, Prakhon Chai, and Ban Kruat of Buriram Province. To the southeast it borders the province Oddar Meancheay of Cambodia.

The Sankamphaeng Range mountainous area is in the southern section of this district.

Administration

The district is divided into six sub-districts (tambon), which are further subdivided into 95 villages (muban). Lahan Sai is a sub-district municipality (thesaban tambon) which covers parts of tambon Lahan Sai. Ta Chong, Samrong Mai, and Nong Waeng are sub-district municipalities which each cover the complete same-named sub-district. The non-municipal parts of Lahan Sai and the sub-districts Nong Takhrong and Khok Wan each have one tambon administrative organization (TAO).

Missing numbers are tambon which now form Non Din Daeng district and parts of Chaloem Phra Kiat district.

References

Lahan Sai District Wikipedia


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