Nong Bua Lamphu province explained

Nong Bua Lamphu
Native Name:หนองบัวลำภู
Native Name Lang:th
Settlement Type:Province
Motto:ศาลสมเด็จพระนเรศวรมหาราช อุทยานแห่งชาติภูเก้า ภูพานคำ แผ่นดินธรรมหลวงปู่ขาว เด่นสกาวถ้ำเอราวัณ นครเขื่อนขันธ์กาบแก้วบัวบาน
("Shrine of King Naresuan the Great. Phu Kao National Park. Phu Phan Kham. Land of Dharma and Luang Pu Khao. Famed Erawan cave. Nakhon Khuean Khan Kab Kaew Bua Ban.")
Mapsize:frameless
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:Thailand
Seat Type:Capital
Seat:Nong Bua Lam Phu
Leader Title:Governor
Leader Name:Siwaporn Chuasawas
(since October 2020)[1]
Area Footnotes:[2]
Area Total Km2:4,099
Area Rank:Ranked 54th
Population Footnotes:[3]
Population Total:512,780
Population As Of:2019
Population Rank:Ranked 53rd
Population Density Km2:125
Population Density Rank:Ranked 37th
Demographics Type2:GDP
Demographics2 Footnotes:[4]
Demographics2 Title1:Total
Demographics2 Info1:baht 25 billion
(US$0.9 billion) (2019)
Demographics Type1:Human Achievement Index
Demographics1 Footnotes:[5]
Demographics1 Title1:HAI (2022)
Demographics1 Info1:0.6098 "low"
Ranked 75th
Timezone1:ICT
Utc Offset1:+7
Postal Code Type:Postal code
Postal Code:39xxx
Area Code Type:Calling code
Area Code:042
Iso Code:TH-39

Nong Bua Lamphu (Thai: หนองบัวลำภู,, in Thai pronounced as /nɔ̌ːŋ būa̯ lām pʰūː/) is one of Thailand's seventy-six provinces (changwat). It lies in upper northeastern Thailand, a region also known as Isan or Isaan (Thai: อีสาน, being the Thai word for 'northeast'). Neighbouring provinces are (clockwise from North) Udon Thani, Khon Kaen, and Loei. Nong Bua Lamphu is one of the eight quadruply-landlocked Thai provinces, as its neighboring provinces are triply-landlocked.

Geography

Nong Bua Lamphu is in the heart of the Khorat Plateau. The total forest area is 480km2, or 11.7 percent of the area of the province.[2]

National parks

There is one national park and one national park (preparation), along with five other national parks, make up region 10 (Udon Thani) of Thailand's protected areas.

Paleontological remains

Chalawan, an extinct genus of crocodylin, is known solely from its holotype collected in the early-1980s from a road-cut near the town of Nong Bua Lam Phu, in the upper part of the Phu Kradung Formation. This single specimen is the most well preserved vertebrate fossil that has been found from the formation. It contains a single species, Chalawan thailandicus.[8]

History

Nong Bua Lam Phu is noted for it being the area where in the 16th century, Naresuan, the king-liberator of Siam, came to learn of the outcome of a war between the Lao and Burmese in the area of Vientiane. This place was formerly a Lao stronghold and named "Nakhon Khuean Khan Kab Kaew Bua Ban" . During the existence of the Lao Kingdom of Lan Xang (1354–1707), Nong Bua Lam Phu was traditionally given to the crown prince (Uparat) to rule. It was the birthplace of the principal wife of Chao Siribunyasan (Thai: พระเจ้าศิริบุญสาร), the last independent king of Vientiane.[9] In 1827, Chao Anou of Vientiane designated Phagna Narin to be governor at the onset of the Laotian Rebellion of 1826–1828.

Under Thai rule, the province originally consisted of five amphoe (districts) in Udon Thani province. In 1993 Udon was decentralized and a separate province of Nong Bua Lam Phu was created. It is one of the newest provinces of Thailand, together with Amnat Charoen province, Sa Kaeo province, and Bueng Kan province.

On 6 October 2022, a mass murder occurred at and near a daycare center in Uthai Sawan, a town located in the province. A total of 36 people were killed, and 10 others were injured, before the attacker committed suicide. It was the deadliest mass murder by a single perpetrator in the modern history of Thailand.[10]

Economy

Nong Bua Lamphu is the poorest province in Thailand according to the Bangkok Post. Incomes, as of 2018, average 41,000 baht annually.[11]

The province is largely agricultural. Sticky rice has long been the area's traditional crop, although there has been a shift to sugarcane due to low rice prices and sugarcane's resistance to flooding. In 2016, more than one third of the available agricultural land in Nong Bua Lamphu was used for sugarcane plantations. According to the provincial Office of Agricultural Economics, sugarcane cultivation is expected to rise. In contrast, the area devoted to rice farming shrunk by 73 percent from 2000 to 2016.[12]

Symbols

The seal of the province shows King Naresuan in a shrine. This shrine was built to commemorate the visit of King Naresuan to the city of Nong Bua Lam Phu in 1574 when he was gathering troops to fight the Burmese kingdoTaungoo. Behind the shrine is a pond with lotus flowers (Nymphaea lotus), which is the provincial flower. The provincial tree is the Siamese rosewood (Dalbergia cochinchinensis).

Administrative divisions

Provincial government

The province is divided into six districts (amphoe). The districts are further divided into 59 subdistricts (tambon) and 636 villages (muban).

  1. Mueang Nong Bua Lam Phu
  2. Na Klang
  3. Non Sang

  1. Si Bun Rueang
  2. Suwannakhuha
  3. Na Wang

Local government

As of 26 November 2019 there are:[13] one Nong Bua Lamphu Provincial Administration Organisation (Thai: ongkan borihan suan changwat) and 24 municipal (thesaban) areas in the province. Nong Bua Lamphu has town (thesaban mueang) status. Further 23 subdistrict municipalities (thesaban tambon). The non-municipal areas are administered by 43 Subdistrict Administrative Organisations – SAO (ongkan borihan suan tambon).[3]

Human achievement index 2022

HealthEducationEmploymentIncome
34645273
HousingFamilyTransportParticipation
20131876
Nong Bua Lamphu, with a 2022 HAI value of 0.6098 is "low", occupies place 75 in the ranking.
Since 2003, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Thailand has tracked progress on human development at the sub-national level using the Human achievement index (HAI), a composite index covering all the eight key areas of human development. The National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB) has taken over this task since 2017.
RankClassification
  1 – 13"high"
14–29"somewhat high"
30–45"average"
46–61"somewhat low"
62–77"low"

External links

Notes and References

  1. 9 October 2020 . ประกาศสำนักนายกรัฐมนตรี เรื่อง แต่งตั้งข้าราชการพลเรือนสามัญ . Announcement of the Prime Minister's Office regarding the appointment of civil servants . https://web.archive.org/web/20210413151014/http://www.ratchakitcha.soc.go.th/DATA/PDF/2563/E/238/T_0045.PDF . dead . 13 April 2021 . 13 April 2021 . Royal Thai Government Gazette . 137 . Special 238 Ngor . 24.
  2. Web site: ตารางที่ 2 พี้นที่ป่าไม้ แยกรายจังหวัด พ.ศ.2562 . 2019 . Royal Forest Department . Thai . Table 2 Forest area Separate province year 2019 . 6 April 2021 ., information, Forest statistics Year 2019, Thailand boundary from Department of Provincial Administration in 2013.
  3. Web site: http://stat.bora.dopa.go.th/stat/statnew/statTDD/ . stat.bora.dopa.go.th . th . th:รายงานสถิติจำนวนประชากรและบ้านประจำปี พ.ส.2562 . Statistics, population and house statistics for the year 2019 . 31 December 2019 . Registration Office Department of the Interior, Ministry of the Interior . 26 February 2020.
  4. Gross Regional and Provincial Product, 2019 Edition. <> . July 2019. 22 January 2020. Office of the National Economic and Social Development Council (NESDC). en. 1686-0799.
  5. Web site: ข้อมูลสถิติดัชนีความก้าวหน้าของคน ปี 2565 (PDF) . Office of the National Economic and Social Development Council (NESDC). thai . Human Achievement Index Databook year 2022 (PDF) . 12 March 2024 ., page 84.
  6. Web site: ข้อมูลพื้นที่อุทยานแห่งชาติ ที่ประกาศในราชกิจจานุบกษา 133 แห่ง . December 2020 . Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation . Thai . National Park Area Information published in the 133 Government Gazettes . 1 November 2022.
  7. Web site: ข้อมูลพื้นที่อุทยานแห่งชาติ (เตรียมการ) 22 แห่ง . December 2020 . Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation . Thai . Information of 22 National Parks Areas (Preparation) . 1 November 2022.
  8. Martin . J. E. . Lauprasert . K. . Buffetaut . E. . Liard . R. . Suteethorn . V. . Angielczyk . Kenneth . A large pholidosaurid in the Phu Kradung Formation of north-eastern Thailand . 10.1111/pala.12086 . Palaeontology . 757–769. 2013 . 57. 4 . 128482290 . free .
  9. Book: Mayurī Ngaosīvat . Pheuiphanh Ngaosyvathn . Paths to conflagration: fifty years of diplomacy and warfare in Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam, 1778-1828. Cornell University Southeast Asia Program. Cornell University. 0877277230. . I. The Fabric of History. 1. Lao And Thai Contemporaries Of The Drama Speak Out. 1998 . http://www.muanglao.1colony.com/about.html. Born to Siribunyasan (r. 1760–1779), the last independent king of Vientiane, and a princess from the principality of Nong Bua Lam Phu, Chao Anou eventually presided as monarch over both sides of the Mekong River. 24 June 2013.
  10. News: At least 36 dead including children after mass shooting at day care centre in Thailand . Sky News . 6 October 2022 . 6 October 2022.
  11. News: Over 90% of people's woes solved, PM claims. 23 March 2018. Bangkok Post. 23 March 2018.
  12. News: Sunsuk. Donlawat. Sugarcane boom in Nong Bua Lamphu, a bitter pill for public health experts. 19 November 2017. The Isaan Record. 29 July 2016.
  13. Web site: Number of local government organizations by province . 26 November 2019 . dla.go.th . Department of Local Administration (DLA) . 10 December 2019 . 70 Nong Bua Lamphu: 1 PAO, 1 Town mun., 23 Subdistrict mun., 43 SAO..