Thung Khao Luang District

Thung Khao Luang
Thung Khao Luang; ทุ่งเขาหลวง
	District
	District location in Roi Et Province
	Coordinates: 15°59′32″N 103°51′33″E
Country	Thailand
Province	Roi Et
Seat	Thung Khao Luang
Area
• Total	138.9 km2 (53.6 sq mi)
Population (2005)
• Total	24,260
• Density	174.7/km2 (452/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+7 (ICT)
Postal code	45170
Geocode	4520

Thung Khao Luang (Thai: ทุ่งเขาหลวง, pronounced [tʰûŋ kʰǎw lǔa̯ŋ]) is a district (amphoe) of Roi Et Province, Thailand.

Geography

The district is in central Roi Et Province. Neighboring districts are (from the south clockwise): At Samat, Thawat Buri, and Selaphum.

The important water resource is the Chi River.

History

The minor district was created on 1 July 1997, when the four tambons Thung Khao Luang, Thoet Thai, Bueng Ngam, and Maba were split off from Thawat Buri District.[1]

The Thai government on 15 May 2007 upgraded all of 81 minor districts to full districts.[2] With publication in the Royal Gazette on 24 August, the upgrade became official.[3]

Administration

The district is divided into five sub-districts (tambons), which are further subdivided into 50 villages (mubans). There are no municipal (thesaban) areas. There are five tambon administrative organization (TAO).

No.	Name	Thai name	Villages	Pop.
1.	Thung Khao Luang	ทุ่งเขาหลวง	7	4,632
2.	Thoet Thai	เทอดไทย	10	4,753
3.	Bueng Ngam	บึงงาม	13	4,630
4.	Maba	มะบ้า	9	4,859
5.	Lao	เหล่า	11	5,386

Economy

The largely agricultural local economy is augmented by remittances from local women who married foreigners and live abroad. In Ban Jaan (บ้านจาร) village, a settlement of 540 households, at least 100 households have a Western son-in-law, mostly Swiss, leading the town to be known among Thais as the "Swiss village".[4] Local officials claim the number of resident Swiss is overstated as most live with their wives in Switzerland.[5]

gollark: Which don't convince you that you're a pony, but vaguely nudge you towards buying a thing, or make you go "this other group is pure evil".

gollark: I'd say there are already comparatively low-grade examples around in the form of... well, advertising, some weirdness in politics, sort of thing.

gollark: I would hardly call a Tumblr post "proof", but sure.

gollark: Isn't "memetics" more about ideas spreading and whatnot than just "things which do weird stuff to your brain"?

gollark: No idea.

References

ประกาศกระทรวงมหาดไทย เรื่อง แบ่งเขตท้องที่อำเภอธวัชบุรี จังหวัดร้อยเอ็ด ตั้งเป็นกิ่งอำเภอทุ่งเขาหลวง (PDF). Royal Gazette (in Thai). 114 (Special 51 ง): 17. June 25, 1997.
แถลงผลการประชุม ครม. ประจำวันที่ 15 พ.ค. 2550 (in Thai). Manager Online. Archived from the original on 2011-05-16.
พระราชกฤษฎีกาตั้งอำเภอฆ้องชัย...และอำเภอเหล่าเสือโก้ก พ.ศ. ๒๕๕๐ (PDF). Royal Gazette (in Thai). 124 (46 ก): 14–21. August 24, 2007.
Montlake, Simon (20 July 2004). "Thailand's 'Swiss village'". BBC News. Retrieved 17 July 2016.
Yongcharoenchai, Chaiyot (5 March 2017). "Tied in a knot: the Thai wives who go abroad" (Special Report in Spectrum). Bangkok Post. Retrieved 5 March 2017.

External links

amphoe.com

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[1] ประกาศกระทรวงมหาดไทย เรื่อง แบ่งเขตท้องที่อำเภอธวัชบุรี จังหวัดร้อยเอ็ด ตั้งเป็นกิ่งอำเภอทุ่งเขาหลวง (PDF). Royal Gazette (in Thai). 114 (Special 51 ง): 17. June 25, 1997.

[2] แถลงผลการประชุม ครม. ประจำวันที่ 15 พ.ค. 2550 (in Thai). Manager Online. Archived from the original on 2011-05-16.

[3] พระราชกฤษฎีกาตั้งอำเภอฆ้องชัย...และอำเภอเหล่าเสือโก้ก พ.ศ. ๒๕๕๐ (PDF). Royal Gazette (in Thai). 124 (46 ก): 14–21. August 24, 2007.

[Montlake-4] Montlake, Simon (20 July 2004). "Thailand's 'Swiss village'". BBC News. Retrieved 17 July 2016.

[5] Yongcharoenchai, Chaiyot (5 March 2017). "Tied in a knot: the Thai wives who go abroad" (Special Report in Spectrum). Bangkok Post. Retrieved 5 March 2017.