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Nong Hin District
Nong Hin ( th, หนองหิน; ) is a district (''amphoe'') of Loei province, northeastern Thailand. Geography Neighboring districts are (from the north clockwise) Wang Saphung, Pha Khao, Phu Kradueng, and Phu Luang. History The minor district (''king amphoe'') was established on 1 July 1997 with territory split off from Phu Kradueng district. On 15 May 2007, all 81 minor districts in Thailand were upgraded to full districts. On 24 August, the upgrade became official. Administration The district is divided into three sub-districts (''tambons''), which are further subdivided into 34 villages (''mubans''). Nong Hin is a township (''thesaban tambon Thesaban ( th, เทศบาล, , ) are the municipalities of Thailand. There are three levels of municipalities: city, town, and sub-district. Bangkok and Pattaya are special municipal entities not included in the ''thesaban'' system. The mu ...'') which covers parts of ''tambon'' Nong Hin. There are a further three t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
District
A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions of municipalities, school district, or political district. By country/region Afghanistan In Afghanistan, a district (Persian ps, ولسوالۍ ) is a subdivision of a province. There are almost 400 districts in the country. Australia Electoral districts are used in state elections. Districts were also used in several states as cadastral units for land titles. Some were used as squatting districts. New South Wales had several different types of districts used in the 21st century. Austria In Austria, the word is used with different meanings in three different contexts: * Some of the tasks of the administrative branch of the national and regional governments are fulfilled by the 95 district administrative offices (). The area a dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pha Khao District
Pha Khao ( th, ผาขาว; ) is a district (''amphoe'') of Loei Province, northeastern Thailand. Geography Neighboring districts are (from the south clockwise): Phu Kradueng, Nong Hin, Wang Saphung, and Erawan of Loei Province; and Si Bun Rueang of Nong Bua Lamphu Province. History The minor district (''king amphoe'') was established on 1 January 1988, when the four ''tambons'', Pha Khao, Tha Chang Khlong, Non Po Daeng, and Non Pa Sang, were split off from Phu Kradueng. It was upgraded to a full district on 3 November 1993. Administration The district is divided into five sub-districts (''tambons''), which are further subdivided into 64 villages (''mubans''). There are no municipal (''thesaban Thesaban ( th, เทศบาล, , ) are the municipalities of Thailand. There are three levels of municipalities: city, town, and sub-district. Bangkok and Pattaya are special municipal entities not included in the ''thesaban'' system. The mu ...'') areas. There are five ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tat Kha
Tat or TAT may refer to: Geography *Tát, a Hungarian village *Tat Ali, an Ethiopian volcano People *Tat, a son and disciple of Hermes Trismegistus *Tiffani Amber Thiessen, initials T.A.T. *Tat Wood, a British author Arts, entertainment, and media *TAT (band), a punk/rock band from London, England *'' Die Tat'', a former magazine Aviation *TAT, the IATA Airport code of Poprad-Tatry Airport *TAT European Airlines, a former French regional airline *Total air temperature, sometimes referred to as Stagnation Temperature * Transcontinental Air Transport, a former US airline Enterprises and organizations *Takraw Association of Thailand (TAT), a sport governing body of Thailand. *Tat Bank, a bank based in Tehran, Iran *The Astonishing Tribe (or TAT), the former name of the Swedish company Research In Motion *Truckers Against Trafficking (or TAT), a nonprofit organization Ethnology *Armeno-Tats, a subgroup of Armenians in the South Caucasus that speak the Tat language, a Southwestern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nong Hin (c. 1005–1055), a Zhuang shamaness, matria ...
Nong may refer to: *Nong, Iran, a village in Hormozgan Province, Iran * Nong District, a district of Savannakhet Province, Laos *The Nung people of Vietnam, or the Nong 农 branch of the Zhuang people of Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan, China Surname *Nông Văn Vân (died 1835), Nung man who led a peasant revolt in Vietnam *Nông Thị Xuân (1932–1957), mistress of Ho Chi Minh *Nông Đức Mạnh (born 1940), Vietnamese politician, former general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam *Aloys Nong (born 1983), Cameroonian footballer See also *''Nong'' ( th, หนอง), a place name element in Thai meaning wetland, natural pool or swamp ** *A Nong A Nong (also A Nùng, zh, 阿儂; 1005–1055) was a Zhuang shamaness, matriarch and warrior. She was the mother of the warlord Nong Zhigao (1025–1055). Alongside her son, father, and husband, she led the Zhuang and Nùng minorities of the Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Population
Population typically refers to the number of people in a single area, whether it be a city or town, region, country, continent, or the world. Governments typically quantify the size of the resident population within their jurisdiction using a census, a process of collecting, analysing, compiling, and publishing data regarding a population. Perspectives of various disciplines Social sciences In sociology and population geography, population refers to a group of human beings with some predefined criterion in common, such as location, race, ethnicity, nationality, or religion. Demography is a social science which entails the statistical study of populations. Ecology In ecology, a population is a group of organisms of the same species who inhabit the same particular geographical area and are capable of interbreeding. The area of a sexual population is the area where inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thesaban Tambon
Thesaban ( th, เทศบาล, , ) are the municipalities of Thailand. There are three levels of municipalities: city, town, and sub-district. Bangkok and Pattaya are special municipal entities not included in the ''thesaban'' system. The municipalities assume some of the responsibilities which are assigned to the districts (''amphoe'') or communes (''tambon'') for non-municipal (rural) areas. Historically, this devolution of central government powers grew out of the Sukhaphiban () sanitary districts first created in Bangkok by a royal decree of King Chulalongkorn in 1897. The ''thesaban'' system was established in the Thesaban Organization Act of 1934 ( th, พระราชบัญญัติจัดระเบียบเทศบาล พุทธศักราช ๒๔๗๖),The Royal Gazetteพระราชบัญญัติจัดระเบียบเทศบาล พุทธศักราช ๒๔๗๖, Vol. 51, Page 82-107.24 Apr 1934. Retri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muban
Muban ( th, หมู่บ้าน; , ) is the lowest administrative sub-division of Thailand. Usually translated as 'village' and sometimes as 'hamlet', they are a subdivision of a tambon (subdistrict). , there were 74,944 administrative mubans in Thailand. As of the 1990 census, the average village consisted of 144 households or 746 persons. Nomenclature ''Muban'' may function as one word, in the sense of a hamlet or village, and as such may be shortened to ''ban''. ''Mu ban'' may also function as two words, i.e., หมู่ 'group' (of) บ้าน 'homes'. * ''Mu'', in the sense of group (of homes in a tambon), are assigned numbers in the sequence in which each is entered in a register maintained in the district or branch-district office. * ''Ban'', in the sense of home or household for members of each group, are assigned a number ( th, บ้านเลขที่; ) in the sequence in which each is added to the household register also maintained in the district ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tambon
''Tambon'' ( th, ตำบล, ) is a local governmental unit in Thailand. Below district (''amphoe'') and province (''changwat''), they form the third administrative subdivision level. there were 7,255 tambons, not including the 180 ''khwaeng'' of Bangkok, which are set at the same administrative level, thus every district contains eight to ten tambon. ''Tambon'' is usually translated as "township" or "subdistrict" in English — the latter is the recommended translation, though also often used for ''king amphoe'', the designation for a subdistrict acting as a branch (Thai: ''king'') of the parent district. Tambon are further subdivided into 69,307 villages ('' muban''), about ten per ''tambon''. ''Tambon'' within cities or towns are not subdivided into villages, but may have less formal communities called ''chumchon'' ( ชุมชน) that may be formed into community associations. History The ''tambon'' as a subdivision has a long history. It was the second-level sub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King Amphoe
An amphoe (sometimes also ''amphur'', th, อำเภอ, )—usually translated as "district"—is the second level administrative subdivision of Thailand. Groups of ''amphoe'' or districts make up the provinces, and are analogous to counties. The chief district officer is ''Nai Amphoe'' (). ''Amphoe'' are divided into ''tambons'', ( th, ตำบล), or sub-districts. Altogether Thailand has 928 districts, including the 50 districts of Bangkok, which are called '' khet'' (เขต) since the Bangkok administrative reform of 1972. The number of districts in provinces varies, from only three in the smallest provinces, up to the 50 urban districts of Bangkok. Also the sizes and population of districts differ greatly. The smallest population is in Ko Kut ( Trat province) with just 2,042 citizens, while Mueang Samut Prakan ( Samut Prakan province) has 509,262 citizens. The ''khet'' of Bangkok have the smallest areas—Khet Samphanthawong is the smallest, with only 1.4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phu Luang District
Phu Luang ( th, ภูหลวง, ) is a district (''amphoe'') of Loei province, northeastern Thailand. Geography Neighboring districts are (from the south clockwise): Nam Nao of Phetchabun province; Phu Ruea, Wang Saphung, Nong Hin, and Phu Kradueng of Loei Province. To the northwest of the district is the plateau of Phu Luang mountain, which also gave the district its name. It is now protected as the Phu Luang Wildlife Sanctuary. In ''tambon'' Kaeng Si Phum is the Namtok Huai Lao Forest Park, covering 3.4 km² around the Huai Lao waterfall. History The minor district (''king amphoe'') was established on 28 November 1980 with the two ''tambons'' Phu Ho and Nong Khan split off from Wang Saphung district. It was upgraded to a full district on 9 May 1992. Administration The district is divided into five sub-districts (''tambons''), which are further subdivided into 43 villages (''mubans''). There are no municipal (''thesaban'') areas. There are five tambon administrativ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wang Saphung District
Wang Saphung ( th, วังสะพุง; ) is a district (''amphoe'') in the central part of Loei province, northeastern Thailand. The district has been the site of a long-standing dispute between the villagers of Ban Na Nong Bong and its environs and Tungkum Limited, a subsidiary of Tongkah Harbour PCL. Tungkum extracts gold from an open pit mine in district and has been charged with environmental destruction by many of those living nearby. History ''Khwaeng'' Wang Saphung was a satellite city of ''Mueang'' Lom Sak. It was assigned to be under Mueang Loei on 4 January 1907. Geography Neighboring districts are (from the north clockwise): Mueang Loei district, Erawan, Pha Khao, Nong Hin, Phu Luang, and Phu Ruea of Loei Province. The important water resource is the Loei River. The Phu Luang Wildlife Sanctuary is in the west of the district. Administration The district is divided into 10 sub-districts (''tambons''), which are further subdivided into 141 villages (''muban ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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