Area 9.149 km² Population 17,317 (2007) | District Tak Bai Local time Saturday 7:27 PM | |
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Weather 29°C, Wind E at 10 km/h, 78% Humidity | ||
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Tak Bai (Thai: ตากใบ) is a border town on Malaysia-Thailand Border, the capital of Tak Bai district, Narathiwat province. Visitors can visit Malaysia by Pengkalan Kubur pass, Kelantan state.
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Administratively it is a town (thesaban mueang), and covers 9.14 km² of the subdistrict (tambon) Che He. As of 2007 it has a population of 17,317.
It is the location of the Tak Bai Incident, in which on October 25, 2004 at least 85 demonstrators died.
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History
The town was created as a sanitary district (sukhaphiban) in 1956. Like all sanitary districts, it was upgraded to a subdistrict municipality (thesaban tambon) in May 1999. On January 31, 2008 it was upgraded to a town (thesaban mueang).
References
Tak Bai Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA