Country Thailand Time zone THA (UTC+7) Geocode 9101 Province Satun Province | Seat Khlong Khut Postal code 91000 Area 880.2 km² | |
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Points of interest Ko Lipe, Sita Beach Resort & Spa Satun, Pattaya Beach, Salisa Resort, Paradise Tours Lipe Destinations Tarutao National Park, Ko Tarutao, Ko Adang, Thale Ban National Park, Tammalang | ||
Mueang Satun (Thai: เมืองสตูล) is the capital district (Amphoe Mueang) of Satun Province, southern Thailand.
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Map of Mueang Satun District, Satun, Thailand
History
Due to many problems in Syburi (Kedah) state, King Rama III ordered the division of Syburi into 4 separate mueang - Kubang Pasu, Syburi, Perlis and Satun in 1833. He set Mueang Satun under Nakhon Si Thammarat.
In 1897, King Chulalongkorn (Rama V) reunified the 4 cities under the newly established Monthon (มณฑล) Syburi. When the United Kingdom and Siam (Thailand) signed the Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909, only Satun remained with Siam, which was then set under Monthon Phuket (มณฑลภูเก็ต) in 1910, until 1933.
Originally Satun Province was subdivided into 2 districts and one minor district. Mambang (มำบัง) was one of these two original districts, which was renamed to Mueang Satun in 1938, when all capital districts were named according to the corresponding province name.
Geography
Neighboring districts are (from the northwest clockwise) Tha Phae, Khuan Don of Satun Province, the state Perlis of Malaysia and the Andaman Sea. The Tarutao National Marine Park containing the Tarutao and Adang archipelagos belong to the district. Also some part of the boundary area to Malaysia is protected in the Thale Ban National Park. Satun's privileged geographic location permits it to host Thailand's landing points for optical fiber submarine communications cable Segment FEA (FLAG Europe Asia) of the 28,000-kilometer-long FLAG (Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe); and for the 49,000-kilometer-long SEA-ME-WE 3, which links regions of Southeast Asia to regions of the Middle East and Western Europe.
Administration
The district is subdivided into 12 subdistricts (tambon), which are further subdivided into 67 villages (muban). The town (thesaban mueang) Satun covers the complete tambon Phiman. There are further three townships (thesaban tambon) - Chalung and Che Bi Lang, both covering parts of the same-named tambon, and Khlong Khut the whole tambon Khlong Khut. There are also 10 Tambon administrative organizations (TAO).