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Tak Bai

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Country
  
Thailand

Area
  
9.149 km²

Population
  
17,317 (2007)

District
  
Tak Bai

Local time
  
Saturday 7:27 PM

Province
  
Narathiwat Province

Tak Bai

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