Encyclopedia > List of provinces of Thailand by population
This is a list of the provinces of Thailand in order of their total population. The data are from the National Statistical Office of Thailand, based upon the national census (final data) of 2000. 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. ... The National Statistical Office of Thailand is the government of Thailands official statistics surveyor. ...
Thailand has recently repeatedly accused certain fundamentalist groups in northern Malaysia of supporting separatist movements in the south, and historically that was often the case during the height of Thailand's southern insurgency in the 1970s and 1980s.
While 75-85% of the population in the three southernmost provinces are Muslim, as many as 90% of the government administrators, and in particular the police and the army, are Thai Buddhists, usually hailing from other regions of the country that lack understanding of Muslim mores and culture.
The meeting was convened by Abdulrahman Abdulsamat, chairman of the League o f the Islamic Council of Southern Thailand, and former chairman of the Narathiwat Islamic Council.
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