The Bangkok Metropolitan Area (Thai: กรุงเทพมหานครและปริมณฑล) is the urban area of Bangkok, Thailand and its surrounding provinces. Altogether it covers an area of 7,761.50 km² and with a population of 9,875,487 (as of July 10 2006) it has a population density of 1,272.37 per km². The Bangkok Skytrain at sunset on Thanon Narathiwat Ratcha Nakharin with Empire Tower at the back. ...
It covers these provinces: Image File history File links Thailand_Bangkok_and_vicinity. ...
A new special administrative area of Nakhon Suvarnabhumi is planned to be formed from two districts of Bangkok and three districts of Samut Prakan. The new city will cover area 521.29 km² and a population of around 465,000. The Bangkok Skytrain at sunset on Thanon Narathiwat Ratcha Nakharin with Empire Tower at the back. ... Nonthaburi (Thai นนทบุรี) is one of the central provinces (changwat) of Thailand. ... Samut Prakan (Thai สมุทรปราการ) is one of the central provinces (changwat) of Thailand. ... Pathum Thani (Thai ปทุมธานี) is one of the central provinces (changwat) of Thailand. ... Samut Sakhon (Thai สมุทรสาคร) is one of the central provinces (changwat) of Thailand. ... Nakhon Pathom (Thai นครปà¸à¸¡) is one of the central provinces (changwat) of Thailand. ... Nakhon Suvarnabhumi (Thai นครสุวรรณภูมิ) is a proposed new province of Thailand in the southeast of Bangkok around the new Bangkok airport. ...
Both Bangkok and Thon Buri, an area on the west bank of the Chao Phraya, were just small villages in the 17th and 18th centuries, when they served as ports for ships sailing up the river to Ayutthaya, the former capital of Siam (then the name of Thailand).
The capital was moved across the river to Bangkok in 1782, because the main Burmese military threat to the Thai came from the west, on the Thon Buri side of the river.
Bangkok began in 1782 as a settlement on the bank of the Chao Phraya, and this area soon became the center of the city’s government and religious institutions.
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