Sam Liam Din Daeng or Din Daeng Junction ( th, สามเหลี่ยมดินแดง, แยกดินแดง) is a

road junction A junction is where two or more roads meet. History Roads began as a means of linking locations of interest: towns, forts and geographic features such as river fords. Where roads met outside of an existing settlement, these junctions often led ...

in the area of Thanon Phaya Thai Subdistrict,

Ratchathewi District Ratchathewi ( th, ราชเทวี, ) is a district in central Bangkok, Thailand. Clockwise from the north, its neighboring districts are Phaya Thai, Din Daeng, Huai Khwang, Watthana, Pathum Wan and Dusit. History The district was part ...

in downtown

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. It is a

three-way junction A three-way junction (or three-way intersection) is a type of road intersection with three arms. A Y junction (or Y intersection) generally has three arms of equal size coming at an acute or obtuse angle to each other; while a T junction (or ...

Ratchawithi Road Bang Phlat Intersection where Ratchawithi Road ends Ratchawithi Road, also spelled Rajvithi ( th, ถนนราชวิถี, ) is a major road in Bangkok, Thailand. It begins in Ratchathewi district at Sam Liam Din Daeng Junction, where it ...

, Ratchaprarop Road and

Din Daeng Road DIN or Din or din may refer to: People and language * Din (name), people with the name * Dīn, an Arabic word with three general senses: judgment, custom, and religion from which the name originates * Dinka language (ISO 639 code: din), spoken by ...

, being considered the beginning of the former two. The name of the junction refers to its triangular shape (''sam liam'', สามเหลี่ยม is Thai for triangle). On top of the junction is an

overpass An overpass (called an overbridge or flyover in the United Kingdom and some other Commonwealth countries) is a bridge, road, railway or similar structure that crosses over another road or railway. An ''overpass'' and ''underpass'' together form ...

linking Ratchawithi Road and the nearby Victory Monument zone. It is often confused with the similarly-named next junction, Tai Duan Din Daeng Junction () in

Din Daeng District Din Daeng ( th, ดินแดง, ) is one of the 50 districts (''khet'') of Bangkok, Thailand. Its neighbours, clockwise from north, are Chatuchak, Huai Khwang, Ratchathewi, and Phaya Thai. History The district was created in 1993, when th ...

, where Din Daeng Road meets

Vibhavadi Rangsit Road Vibhavadi Rangsit Road ( th, ถนนวิภาวดีรังสิต, ) or Highway 31, often informally called Vibhavadi Road (), is a highway in Thailand. The road begins at Phaya Thai district in Bangkok and crosses Chatuchak, Lak ...

. Tai Duan Din Daeng features both an overpass and a tunnel. Sam Liam Din Daeng is usually one of the areas with the highest amount of traffic violations in Bangkok. in May 2018,

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was installed here along with other 14 intersections where traffic violations were high. On the second day after the installation, there were 3,524 offenders.

Incidents

The Sam Liam Din Daeng area, including Tai Duan Din Daeng Junction, was one among many protest sites during the "

Bloody Songkran A series of political demonstrations and following unrest occurred in Thailand from 26 March to 14 April 2009 in Bangkok and Pattaya against the government of Abhisit Vejjajiva and the military crackdown that followed. Up to 100,000 people demons ...

" political unrest of April 2009, which saw crackdowns by the government of Abhisit Vejjajiva against demonstrations by

United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship The United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD) ( th, แนวร่วมประชาธิปไตยต่อต้านเผด็จการแห่งชาติ; นปช., alternatively translated as National Demo ...

(UDD), also known as the Red Shirts. Protesters in this area were tear gassed after seizing a

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. Sam Liam Din Daeng once again became a UDD protest site the next year, with a number of protesters being injured or killed in the area during the subsequent military crackdowns. Since August 2021, Sam Liam Din Daeng has been used as a venue for daily evening demonstrations against the government of Gen.

Prayut Chan-ocha Prayut Chan-o-cha (sometimes spelled Prayuth Chan-ocha; th, ประยุทธ์ จันทร์โอชา, ; born 21 March 1954) is a Thai politician and retired army officer who has served as the Prime Minister of Thailand since he ...

. Many times the protesters (mostly teenagers but some were members of the Red Shirts) violently clashed with

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Neighbouring places

* Victory Monument *

Santiphap Park Santiphap Park (, , literally "Peace Park") is an park in Bangkok, Thailand. It is located between Ratchawithi Road and Rang Nam Road in Ratchathewi district. The land on which Santiphap Park is built is leased from the Crown Property Bureau b ...

References

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