Aranyaprathet (Thai: อรัญประเทศ)(Khmer:អារញ្ញប្រទេស) is a town (''

thesaban mueang Thesaban (, , , Pali: desapāla (protector of region) 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'' ...

'') in Sa Kaeo province in eastern

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 ...

. It covers the entire ''tambon'' of Aranyaprathet, in Aranyaprathet district. As of 2005, the town has 16,937 inhabitants. It is located just from the border with

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; the town of

Poipet Poipet ( ) is a city on the Cambodian– Thai border, in Poipet Municipality, Banteay Meanchey Province. It is a key crossing point between the two countries, and also extremely popular as a gambling destination as gambling is popular, but ...

is on the other side of the border. On the Thai side of the border is the huge Rong Kluea Market. Cambodian people cross the border daily with pushcarts and scooters with side cars loaded with their products. A significant part of the trade is in second hand clothes. Just over the border on the Cambodian side there are

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s. These are visited by many Thai people because gambling is prohibited in Thailand. Special free buses run between Bangkok and these casinos. Cambodians themselves are not allowed to gamble in these border casinos.

Climate

Aranyaprathet has a

tropical savanna climate Tropical savanna climate or tropical wet and dry climate is a tropical climate sub-type that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification categories ''Aw'' (for a dry "winter") and ''As'' (for a dry "summer"). The driest month has less than ...

(

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''Aw''). Winters are dry and very warm. Temperatures rise until April, which is very hot with the average daily maximum at . The

monsoon A monsoon () is traditionally a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation but is now used to describe seasonal changes in Atmosphere of Earth, atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with annu ...

season is from late April to October, with heavy rain and somewhat cooler temperatures during the day, although nights remain warm.

Transportation

Aranyaprathet lies on the Route 33, part of the route connecting

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and

Siem Reap Siem Reap (, ) is the second-largest city of Cambodia, as well as the capital and largest city of Siem Reap Province in northwestern Cambodia. Siem Reap possesses French-colonial and Chinese-style architecture in the Old French Quarter ...

, the city nearest

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, and as a result sees a large volume of tourist traffic. The road leads east to the border with Cambodia, and west to

Sa Kaeo Sa Kaeo (, ) is a town (''thesaban mueang'') in Thailand, about 48 kilometers from the Thai-Cambodia Cambodia, officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country in Southeast Asia on the Mainland Southeast Asia, Indochinese Peninsula. It is ...

and

Nakhon Nayok Nakhon Nayok is a capital of Nakhon Nayok province in the central region of Thailand. The town ('' thesaban mueang'') covers Nakhon Nayok subdsitrict (''tambon'') and parts of Tha Chang, Ban Yai, Wang Krachom, and Phrommani subdistricts, Mueang ...

. Another road, Route 348, leads north to Nang Rong. Aranyaprathet also has a

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for the Eastern Line of the

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, with a rail link to the Ban Klong Luk Border railway station to

References

External links

* Populated places in Sa Kaeo province {{Borders of Thailand