Highway 32 ( th , ทางหลวงแผ่นดินหมายเลข 32, ) is a
national highway in
Thailand
Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning , with a population of almost 70 million. The country is b ...
.
It begins in
Bang Pa-In District in
Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Province at the junction of
Phahonyothin Road (Thailand Route 1) and the
Outer Bangkok ring road (Motorway 9), then passes through the provinces of
Ang Thong,
Singburi, and
Chainat
Chai Nat ( th, ชัยนาท, ) is a town (''thesaban mueang'') in central Thailand, capital of Chai Nat province. It covers the whole ''tambon'' tambon Nai Mueang and parts of Ban Kluai, Tha Chai and Khao Tha Phra, all in Mueang Chai Nat ...
, where it merges back into Phahonyothin Road directly at the border with
Nakhon Sawan Province.
Until the mid-1990s, this highway was
tolled. Two toll booths are still there today, but are now used as an administration building.
Compared with other long haul routes in the same direction, Highway 32 provide a shorter and faster way from
Bangkok
Bangkok, officially known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon and colloquially as Krung Thep, is the capital and most populous city of Thailand. The city occupies in the Chao Phraya River delta in central Thailand and has an estimated populati ...
to
Nakhon Sawan and
Northern Thailand
Northern Thailand, or more specifically Lanna, is geographically characterised by several mountain ranges, which continue from the Shan Hills in bordering Myanmar to Laos, and the river valleys which cut through them. Though like most of Thailan ...
. It belongs to the Asian Highway Network's
AH1
Asian Highway 1 (AH1) is the longest route of the Asian Highway Network, running from Tokyo, Japan via Korea, China, Southeast Asia, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran to the border between Turkey and Bulgaria west of Istanbul ...
and
AH2 and the
Kunming-Bangkok Expressway.
From 2008 to 2009, due to the high volume of traffic between Bangkok and Nakhon Sawan, the highway was expanded from four lanes to six lanes and in some sections eight lanes.
References
* ThinkNet:''Road Map of Thailand. MapMagic CD + Paper Map.''Multi-Purposes Bilingual mapping software, Bangkok, 2008 edition.
AH1
National highways in Thailand
Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya province
Ang Thong province
Sing Buri province
Chai Nat province
Nakhon Sawan province
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