Phloen Chit Road (, also spelled Ploenchit, ) is a major road in central

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. Located entirely within

Lumphini Subdistrict Pathum Wan (, ) is one of the Districts of Bangkok, fifty districts (''khet'') of Bangkok, Thailand. It lies just beyond the old city boundary of Khlong Phadung Krung Kasem and was a rural area on the eastern outskirts of the city when royal vill ...

Pathum Wan District Pathum Wan (, ) is one of the Districts of Bangkok, fifty districts (''khet'') of Bangkok, Thailand. It lies just beyond the old city boundary of Khlong Phadung Krung Kasem and was a rural area on the eastern outskirts of the city when royal vill ...

, it runs a short distance of between

Ratchaprasong Intersection Ratchaprasong (, ; also spelled ''Rajprasong'') is the name of an intersection, and a shopping district named after it, in Pathum Wan District, Bangkok, adjacent to the Siam area, at the BTS Skytrain's Chit Lom Station and the intersection of ...

and the Maenam railway branch line, forming a continuation of the westward

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and then itself continuing on to the east as

Sukhumvit Road Sukhumvit Road (, , ), or Highway 3 (), is a major road in Thailand, and a major surface road of Bangkok and other cities. It follows a coastal route from Bangkok to Khlong Yai District, Trat border to Koh Kong, Cambodia. Sukhumvit Road ...

. It serves the neighbourhoods of Ratchaprasong, Chit Lom Intersection (where it intersects Chit Lom and Lang Suan Roads) and Phloen Chit Intersection (where it intersects

Witthayu Road Witthayu Road (, , ), also known as Wireless Road, is a road in Bangkok, located almost entirely in Lumphini subdistrict of Pathum Wan district. It originally linked Phloen Chit Road to Rama IV Road, running from what is now Phloen Chit Int ...

), which are home to major shopping malls, hotels and office towers. The areas are served by the Chit Lom and

Phloen Chit Station Phloen Chit station (, ) is a Bangkok Skytrain, BTS skytrain station, on the Sukhumvit Line in Pathum Wan District, Bangkok, Thailand. The station is located on Phloen Chit Road at Phloen Chit intersection to Wireless Road next to the beginning ...

s of the BTS skytrain, whose Sukhumvit Line runs above Phloen Chit Road.

History

Phloen Chit Road was built in 1920, in the reign of King

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(Rama VI). Much of the area was then developed by the enterprising Chinese businessman

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, who bought large amounts of land, building for himself an estate (now

Nai Lert Park Nai Lert Park Heritage Home () is a park, heritage home, and museum in Bangkok, Thailand. Located in Pathum Wan district, the home was designed and built in 1915 by developer Nai Lert, and the park is considered to be the oldest in Bangkok. The ...

) and subdivided the rest into plots to sell. The

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, established on the corner of Phloen Chit Intersection in 1922, used to occupy one of the largest compounds in the area. Its name, ''"Phloen Chit"'', means "enjoy the mind" from the proposal of Prince

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. Because in those days, the location of this road was considered a suburb and far away from downtown. Therefore people had to travel with inconvenience, so were ironically referred to as "don't worry".

References

Streets in Bangkok Pathum Wan district {{Bangkok-geo-stub