A amphoe (sometimes also amphur, Thai: อำเภอ) is the second level administrative subdivision of Thailand. Usually translated as district, amphoe make up the provinces. Amphoe are further subdivided into tambon. Local government areas called districts are used, or have been used, in several countries. ... Thailand is divided into 76 provinces (Thai: จังหวัด, changwat, singular and plural), which are grouped into 5 groups of provinces - sometimes the East and Central are grouped together. ... Tambon (Thai: ตำบล) is a local government unit in Thailand. ...

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Altogether Thailand has 796 districts and 80 minor districts (King Amphoe, กิ่งอำเภอ). The 50 districts of Bangkok are called khet (เขต), but even in official documents are sometimes misnamed as amphoe, the term used before the Bangkok administration reform in 1972. The number of amphoe in a province differs, from only 3 in the smallest provinces up to the 50 urban districts of Bangkok. Also the sizes and population of the amphoe differs, the lowest population is in King Amphoe Ko Kut (Trat Province) with just 2042 citizens, while Amphoe Mueang Samut Prakan (Samut Prakan Province) has 435,122 citizens. Areawise the khet of Bangkok are the smallest - Khet Samphanthawong is the smallest with only 1.4 km² - while the amphoe of the low populated mountain regions are bigger than some provinces - Amphoe Umphang (Tak Province) with 4,325.4 km² is the largest. Bangkok is subdivided into 50 districts (khet เขต, also sometimes called amphoe as in the other provinces), which are further subdivided into 154 kwaeng (แขวง), roughly equivalent to tambon in the other provinces. ... Bangkok from the Chao Phraya River at sunset, July 2004 The Wat Phra Kaew temple Bangkok, known in Thai as Krung Thep ( (help· info)), or Krung Thep Maha Nakhon ( (help· info), IPA: ), is the capital and largest city of Thailand, with an official 1990 census population of 8,538,610. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1972 calendar). ... Bangkok from the Chao Phraya River at sunset, July 2004 The Wat Phra Kaew temple Bangkok, known in Thai as Krung Thep ( (help· info)), or Krung Thep Maha Nakhon ( (help· info), IPA: ), is the capital and largest city of Thailand, with an official 1990 census population of 8,538,610. ... Trat (Thai ตราด) is a province (changwat) of Thailand. ... Amphoe Mueang Samut Prakan is the capital district of Samut Prakan province in Thailand. ... Samut Prakan (Thai สมุทรปราการ) is one of the central provinces (changwat) of Thailand. ... Samphanthawong (Thai สัมพันธวงศ์) is one of the 50 districts (Khet) of Bangkok, Thailand. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... Umphang (Thai: อุ้มผาง) is a district (amphoe) in Tak Province, Thailand at the Thai-Myanmar border. ... Tak (Thai ตาก) is one of the northern provinces (changwat) of Thailand. ...

The names of the Amphoe are usually unique, in a few cases different Thai names have the same name in English due to the flaws of the romanization. The notable exception is however the name Amphoe Chaloem Phra Kiat, which was given to five districts created in 1996 in celebration of the 50th anniversary of King Bhumibol Adulyadej ascension to the throne. Chaloem Phra Kiat (Thai: เฉลิมพระเกียรติ) is a honorific way of addressing a member of the royal family. In linguistics, romanization (or Latinization, also spelled romanisation or Latinisation) is the representation of a word or language with the Roman (Latin) alphabet, or a system for doing so, where the original word or language uses a different writing system. ... There are five Amphoe named Chaloem Phra Kiat (Thai เฉลิมพระเกียรติ) in Thailand. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... King Bhumibol Adulyadej the Great (Thai: ภูมิพลอดุลยเดช; IPA: ) (born December 5, 1927), also known as King Rama IX and the Ninth Rama, has been King of Thailand since 9 June 1946. ...

The districts are led by a District Chief Officer (Nai Amphoe, นายอำเภอ), which is appointed by the Ministry of the Interior. The officer is a subordinate of the provincial governor.

King Amphoe

Minor districts are set up when the administration of areas remote to the district center gets too uncomfortable for the citizen. The minor districts is led by a chief officer (Huana King Amphoe, หัวหน้ากิ่งอำเภอ). Most of the tasks of the Amphoe is transferred to the King Amphoe, however it is still partially a subordinate of the Amphoe it was created from. Once the King Amphoe meets the necessary qualifications to become an Amphoe they are usually promoted. However not every newly created Amphoe has to be a King Amphoe before, if the qualifications are met directly this phase is skipped.

The qualification necessary is a population of at least 30,000 people and at least 5 tambon, or if the area is located more than 25 km away from the district office a population of at least 15,000 and 4 tambon.

District Office

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The administration of the district is housed in an office building called Thiwagan Amphoe (ทีว่าการอำเภอ), which also marks the center of each district. Distances on road signs are always calculated till this office building. The office is usually located in the largest settlement of the district, to make it easily reachable for the majority of the population - one of the tasks of the Amphoe is the civil registry, which makes the district the most important of the administrative levels for the general Thai people. Image File history File links Commons-logo. ... The Wikimedia Commons (also called Commons or Wikicommons) is a repository of free content images, sound and other multimedia files. ... In most countries, births, deaths, and marriages are recorded at a government controlled births, deaths and marriages registry office (eg. ...

See also

• Subdivisions of Thailand