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Khlong Sam Wa
Khlong Sam Wa (, ) is one of the 50 districts (''khet'') of Bangkok, Thailand. It is bounded by other districts (from north clockwise): Lam Luk Ka district of Pathum Thani province, Nong Chok, Min Buri, Khan Na Yao, Bang Khen, and Sai Mai of Bangkok. As of 2022, it had the highest population of all districts in Bangkok. History Khlong Sam Wa was established as a district on 21 November 1997 by splitting from Min Buri. Khlong Sam Wa was the name of an amphoe (district) in Min Buri and hence the name is used as the district name. In 1947 when the area was still rural, the farming community of Bang Chan was chosen as a centre for Thai studies. Its name "Khlong Sam Wa" literally translates as a ''khlong'' (canal) with a width of three '' wa'' (5.943 m). Administration The district is divided into five sub-districts (''khwaeng''). District council The district council for Khlong Sam Wa has seven members, who each serve four-year terms. Elections were last held on 30 April 2006. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Districts Of Bangkok
Bangkok is subdivided into 50 districts (''khet'', , , also sometimes wrongly called ''Districts of Thailand, amphoe'' as in the other provinces, derived from Pali ''khetta'', cognate to Sanskrit ''kṣetra''), which are further subdivided into 180 subdistricts (''khwaeng'', , ), roughly equivalent to ''tambon'' in the other provinces. 
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Amphoe
An amphoe (sometimes also ''amphur'', , )—usually translated as "district"—is the second level administrative subdivision of Thailand. Groups of ''amphoe'' or districts make up the Provinces of Thailand, provinces, and are analogous to county, counties. The chief district officer is ''Nai Amphoe'' (). ''Amphoe'' are divided into tambon, ''tambons'', (), or sub-districts. Altogether Thailand has 928 districts, including the 50 districts of Bangkok, which are called ''Khet (country subdivision), 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 district, Ko Kut (Trat province) with just 2,042 citizens, while Mueang Samut Prakan district, Mueang Samut Prakan (Samut Prakan province) has 509,262 citizens. The ''khet'' of Bangkok have the sma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wari Phirom Park
Wari Phirom Park or alternatively spelled Waree Phirom Park () is a public park in Khlong Sam Wa district on the northeast outskirts of Bangkok. The park originally known as ''Beung Makham Tet'' (บึงมะขามเทศ) and ''Beung Sakae Ngam Sam Duen'' (บึงสะแกงามสามเดือน). They were all reservoirs that receive water from canals Khlong Saen Saep and Khlong Hok Wa to prevent flooding in Bangkok. It first opened as a public park in August 2014. Later, Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) took steps to improve the landscape of the park by planting perennials, ornamental plants, and aquatic plants to increase shady conditions, and created a bike and walking-jogging tracks, in length, around the two reservoirs to honour Queen Sirikit Sirikit (born ''Mom Rajawongse'' Sirikit Kitiyakara; 12 August 1932) is a member of the Thai royal family who was List of Thai royal consorts#Rattanakosin Kingdom, Queen of Thailand from 28 April ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Safari World
Safari World is a tourist attraction in Bangkok, Thailand that consists of two parks named Marine Park and Safari Park, operated by Safari World Public Limited. The park was opened in 1988 with a total area of for its open zoo and for its bird park. A major renovation to enhance effectiveness of land use began on 17 April 1989 and its total area developed for the leisure park now consists of an open zoo and a marine park on 500 rai (approximately 200 acres) of land. On 1 February 1994, Safari World changed its name to Safari World Public Company Limited. Later, it was accepted by the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) to become the first and only entertainment park to be listed on SET on 16 February 1995. Safari Park Safari Park is the largest section of the park. It is a 50 minutes drive-through through an eight-kilometer park replicating a Savannah habitat. The safari park houses large herds of Asian and African ungulates and a very large free flying waterbirds sanctuary. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thai Rak Thai
The Thai Rak Thai Party (TRT; , , ; "Thais Love Thais Party") was a list of political parties in Thailand, Thai political party founded in 1998. From 2001 to 2006, it was the ruling party under its founder, Prime Minister of Thailand, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. During its brief existence, Thai Rak Thai won the three general elections it contested. Eight months after a 2006 Thailand coup, military coup forced Thaksin to remain in exile, the party was dissolved on 30 May 2007 by the Constitutional Tribunal for violation of electoral laws, with 111 former party members banned from participating in politics for five years. Party platform and electoral outcomes Thai Rak Thai was registered on 15 July 1998, by telecommunications entrepreneur Thaksin Shinawatra and 22 other founding members, including Somkid Jatusripitak, Thanong Bidaya, Sudarat Keyuraphan, Purachai Piumsombun, Thammarak Isaragura na Ayuthaya, and Prommin Lertsuridej. The Thai Rak Thai party had a populism, pop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 Thailand Local Elections
Elections for local councils in Bangkok were held in 2006. The first batch of elections took place on 30 April 2006 for all seats on the district councils of 14 districts in the north and east of the city. In the second phase of voting held on 23 July 2006, the District Council seats for the remaining 36 districts, along with all 57 seats on the Bangkok Metropolitan Council, were up for election. Local elections follow a four-year cycle, and the 2006 elections are a follow-on from the 2002 elections. April elections 14 District Council elections Elections for district council in Bang Kapi, Bang Khen, Bueng Kum, Chatuchak, Don Mueang, Khan Na Yao, Khlong Sam Wa, Lak Si, Lat Krabang, Lat Phrao, Min Buri, Sai Mai, Saphan Sung and Wang Thonglang were held on 30 April 2006. Turnout in the 14 districts was at 35.39 percent, with 482,688 voters exercising their right to vote. The Thai Rak Thai Party won 68 seats along with overall control of nine councils, while candidates ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sai Kong Din Tai
Sai Kong Din Tai (, ) is a ''khwaeng'' (subdistrict) of Khlong Sam Wa District, in Bangkok, Thailand Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Mainland Southeast Asia, Indochinese Peninsula. With a population of almost 66 million, it spa .... In 2020, it had a total population of 17,164 people. References Subdistricts of Bangkok Khlong Sam Wa district {{Bangkok-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sai Kong Din
Sai Kong Din (, ) is a ''khwaeng'' (subdistrict) of Khlong Sam Wa District, in Bangkok, Thailand Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Mainland Southeast Asia, Indochinese Peninsula. With a population of almost 66 million, it spa .... In 2020, it had a total population of 13,117 people. References Subdistricts of Bangkok Khlong Sam Wa district {{Bangkok-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khwaeng 1046
A ''khwaeng'' (, ) is an administrative subdivision used in the fifty districts of Bangkok and a few other city municipalities in Thailand. Currently, there are 180 ''khwaeng'' in Bangkok. A ''khwaeng'' is roughly equivalent to a ''tambon'' in other provinces of Thailand, smaller than an ''amphoe'' (district). With the creation of the special administrative area of Bangkok in 1972 the ''tambon'' within the area of the new administrative entity was converted into ''khwaeng''.Item 17 of The common English translation for ''khwaeng'' is subdistrict. Historically, in some regions of the country ''khwaeng'' referred to subdivisions of a province (then known as ''mueang'', predating the modern term ''changwat''), while in others they were called ''amphoe''. Administrative reforms at the beginning of the 20th century standardized them to the term ''amphoe''. ''Khwaeng'' of Bangkok ''Khwaeng'' in city municipalities See also *Subdivisions of Thailand Thailand is a unitary s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metre
The metre (or meter in US spelling; symbol: m) is the base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI). Since 2019, the metre has been defined as the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of of a second, where the second is defined by a hyperfine transition frequency of caesium. The metre was originally defined in 1791 by the French National Assembly as one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole along a great circle, so the Earth's polar circumference is approximately . In 1799, the metre was redefined in terms of a prototype metre bar. The bar used was changed in 1889, and in 1960 the metre was redefined in terms of a certain number of wavelengths of a certain emission line of krypton-86. The current definition was adopted in 1983 and modified slightly in 2002 to clarify that the metre is a measure of proper length. From 1983 until 2019, the metre was formally defined as the length of the pat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wa (unit)
Wa ( , also ''waa'' or ''wah'', abbreviated ) is a unit of length, equal to two metres (2 m) or four :th:ศอก (หน่วยความยาวไทย), sok (.) ''Wa'' as a verb means to outstretch (one's) arms to both sides, which relates to the fathom's distance between the fingertips of a Man (word), man's outstretched arms. The 1833 Siamese-American Treaty of Amity and Commerce, reads, "[The] Siamese fathom...being computed to contain 78 English or American inches, corresponding to 96 :th:นิ้ว (หน่วยความยาวไทย), Siamese inches." The length then would have been equivalent to a modern 1.981 metres. Since Metrication#Status by country/region, conversion to the metric system in 1923, the length as derived from the metre is precisely two metres, but the unit is neither part of nor recognized by the modern SI, International metric system (SI). Wa also occurs as a colloquialism for "square wa" (tarang wa) a unit of area abbreviated or .) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
