Thai provinces and Bangkok, found on the map

Every one on the map

Every place listed below can be asked in this game. Places you find in a passed round drop out of your remaining pool.

What the map tells you about each one

The paragraph the game shows when you find each one. Reading them first is not cheating.

Bangkok

Bangkok has a special metropolitan administration rather than ordinary provincial status. Its boundary is one of the 77 areas shown on this map.

Samut Prakan

Samut Prakan connects the lower Chao Phraya with the upper Gulf of Thailand. Its coastal land lies beside the capital’s eastern outskirts.

Nonthaburi

Nonthaburi is part of the wider Bangkok urban area. The province is much smaller than the mountain and plateau provinces farther north.

Pathum Thani

Pathum Thani lies between the capital’s northern suburbs and Ayutthaya. The Chao Phraya runs through its lowland landscape.

Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya

The ruined capital of Ayutthaya gives this province its name. Rivers connected the historic city with the Gulf and international trade.

Ang Thong

Ang Thong lies along the Chao Phraya between Sing Buri and Ayutthaya. It is one of several compact provinces in the central rice-growing plain.

Lopburi

Lopburi reaches farther east than the small river provinces beside it. Its landscape connects the central plain with uplands towards Phetchabun.

Sing Buri

Sing Buri occupies a narrow part of the central plain. Look between the river provinces north of Ayutthaya rather than among the northern mountains.

Chai Nat

Chai Nat lies where the lower central plain begins to widen. The province sits downstream from the formation of the Chao Phraya at Nakhon Sawan.

Saraburi

Saraburi links the central plain with the hills on the approach to Nakhon Ratchasima. Its eastern boundary reaches towards the Khao Yai landscape.

Chonburi

Chonburi includes Pattaya and the port of Laem Chabang. Pattaya’s special local administration remains within this province.

Rayong

Rayong forms part of Thailand’s eastern seaboard. The province combines coastal settlements with industrial and agricultural land inland.

Chanthaburi

Chanthaburi connects the eastern Gulf coast with forested uplands. Its position places it between Rayong, Trat and Cambodia.

Trat

Trat is Thailand’s easternmost Gulf coastal province. Its territory includes islands such as Ko Chang as well as the mainland border area.

Chachoengsao

Chachoengsao sits between the Bangkok plain and the eastern provinces. The Bang Pakong River crosses its landscape towards the Gulf.

Prachinburi

Prachinburi lies south of the uplands that separate the central and eastern lowlands from Isan. It has no coastline.

Nakhon Nayok

Nakhon Nayok joins lowland country with the forested hills north of it. Its compact outline lies west of Prachinburi and south of Saraburi.

Sa Kaeo

Sa Kaeo lies on the land route towards Cambodia. Unlike neighbouring Trat and Chanthaburi, it has no Gulf coastline.

Nakhon Ratchasima

Also called Korat, Nakhon Ratchasima links the central country with the Khorat Plateau. Its large area reaches from mountain edges into northeastern lowlands.

Buriram

Buriram’s southern boundary meets Cambodia. Khmer monuments such as Phanom Rung reflect histories that extend across modern borders.

Surin

Surin is one of the southern provinces of Isan. Its border position helps explain the presence of Khmer-speaking communities in the wider region.

Sisaket

Sisaket stretches from northeastern lowlands to the southern border uplands. The Mun River system connects this part of Isan with the Mekong.

Ubon Ratchathani

The Mun joins the Mekong on Ubon Ratchathani’s eastern edge. The province connects the plateau’s river system with the international border.

Yasothon

Yasothon lies inland rather than on the Mekong border. It belongs to the lowland river landscape of the Chi basin.

Chaiyaphum

Chaiyaphum reaches towards the hills beside Phetchabun. It is part of the Chi River’s upper basin, west of the broad plateau plain.

Amnat Charoen

Amnat Charoen is a smaller eastern Isan province. Its eastern edge reaches the Mekong while much of its land remains inland.

Bueng Kan

Bueng Kan became a separate province in 2011, formed from part of Nong Khai. Its long river boundary faces Laos.

Nong Bua Lamphu

Nong Bua Lamphu sits west of Udon Thani in upper Isan. Its boundary reaches the uplands nearer Loei without touching the Mekong.

Khon Kaen

Khon Kaen is a major urban and transport centre of the northeast. Its province connects western uplands with the Chi basin and central plateau.

Udon Thani

Udon Thani lies inland from the Mekong. Ban Chiang, a prehistoric archaeological World Heritage site, is within the province.

Loei

Loei differs from the flatter plateau provinces farther east. Its northern boundary meets the Mekong and its western side reaches mountain country.

Nong Khai

Nong Khai follows the river border facing Laos. The city of the same name stands opposite the area around Vientiane.

Maha Sarakham

Maha Sarakham lies within the plateau rather than on an international border. The Chi basin links its agricultural country with neighbouring provinces.

Roi Et

Roi Et is an inland province of Isan. Its lowlands lie among the river systems that eventually drain towards the Mekong.

Kalasin

Kalasin occupies central-northern Isan, between the plateau lowlands and hills farther north. It has no international border.

Sakon Nakhon

Sakon Nakhon lies behind the Mekong border provinces. Its landscape includes the Phu Phan uplands and lower basin country.

Nakhon Phanom

Nakhon Phanom faces Laos across the Mekong. Its long eastern river boundary helps distinguish it from inland Sakon Nakhon.

Mukdahan

Mukdahan sits opposite Savannakhet in Laos. The river border connects this eastern Isan province with regional trade routes.

Chiang Mai

Chiang Mai contains the former Lanna capital and Doi Inthanon, Thailand’s highest mountain. The Ping River links its valleys with the central plain.

Lamphun

Lamphun lies beside the Ping valley between Chiang Mai and Lampang. Its smaller outline contrasts with the larger mountain provinces around it.

Lampang

Lampang is an inland northern province with valleys enclosed by mountain ranges. It links the upper north with country towards Tak and Sukhothai.

Uttaradit

Uttaradit connects northern mountain country with the lower Nan valley. Its eastern boundary meets Laos rather than the Mekong border of Isan.

Phrae

Phrae lies in the Yom basin. Its province is enclosed by other Thai provinces, unlike Nan and Uttaradit to the east.

Nan

Nan gives its name to a major tributary of the Chao Phraya. Its mountain valleys lie east of Phayao and Phrae.

Phayao

Phayao sits between northern mountain provinces. Its eastern edge reaches Laos, while the provincial town stands beside Kwan Phayao lake.

Chiang Rai

Chiang Rai includes the Thai side of the Golden Triangle. Northern stretches of the Mekong separate Thailand from Laos here.

Mae Hong Son

Mae Hong Son follows a long section of the Myanmar border. The Salween marks part of that boundary through remote mountain country.

Nakhon Sawan

The Ping and Nan meet near Nakhon Sawan city to form the Chao Phraya. The province is a useful link between the northern and central river maps.

Uthai Thani

Uthai Thani combines lower plain country with forested western uplands. Part of the Huai Kha Khaeng wildlife landscape lies within it.

Kamphaeng Phet

Kamphaeng Phet’s historic town belongs to the Sukhothai World Heritage property. The river corridor connects it with the upper north and Nakhon Sawan.

Tak

Tak reaches from the Ping basin towards border mountains and Mae Sot. Its outline is much larger than the compact provinces of the central plain.

Sukhothai

Sukhothai preserves the remains of a medieval kingdom. The historic towns of Sukhothai and Si Satchanalai are within this province.

Phitsanulok

Phitsanulok links the lower northern plains with mountain country towards Laos. The city stands on the Nan, a tributary of the Chao Phraya.

Phichit

Phichit lies in the lower northern river plain. It sits upstream from Nakhon Sawan, where northern tributaries feed the Chao Phraya.

Phetchabun

Phetchabun stretches along valleys between mountain ranges. It separates parts of the lower north and central country from the Khorat Plateau.

Ratchaburi

Ratchaburi reaches from the Mae Klong plain to the Myanmar border. Its inland area lies behind the small coastal province of Samut Songkhram.

Kanchanaburi

Kanchanaburi contains mountain forests and tributaries of the Mae Klong system. Its railway sites recall forced labour during the Second World War.

Suphan Buri

Suphan Buri lies on the western side of the central plain. It connects lowland agricultural country with the foothills towards Kanchanaburi.

Nakhon Pathom

Nakhon Pathom belongs to the lowland country west of the capital. Its compact province lies between Bangkok’s outskirts and Ratchaburi.

Samut Sakhon

Samut Sakhon has a short coast on the upper Gulf. Its position connects the capital’s western outskirts with coastal industry and fishing settlements.

Samut Songkhram

Samut Songkhram is Thailand’s smallest province by area. The Mae Klong reaches the Gulf through its low coastal landscape.

Phetchaburi

Phetchaburi stretches from the Gulf into mountains beside Myanmar. It forms part of the transition from the central country towards the southern peninsula.

Prachuap Khiri Khan

Prachuap Khiri Khan includes Hua Hin. Its narrow land between Myanmar and the Gulf connects the central country with the peninsula.

Nakhon Si Thammarat

Nakhon Si Thammarat has a long Gulf coast and mountain country inland. Its provincial capital shares the province’s name.

Krabi

Krabi combines mainland coast and offshore islands. Limestone scenery and bays distinguish this part of the Andaman shore.

Phang Nga

Phang Nga surrounds the mainland side of the bay beside Phuket. Its province also reaches north along the Andaman coast.

Phuket

Phuket is a province as well as an island and a city name. Its small island outline separates it from the mainland provinces nearby.

Surat Thani

Surat Thani faces the Gulf and includes Ko Samui and Ko Pha-ngan. Inland, Cheow Lan Reservoir lies beside Khao Sok’s forest landscape.

Ranong

Ranong occupies the western side of the peninsula’s narrow northern section. Its coastline faces the Andaman rather than the Gulf.

Chumphon

Chumphon sits opposite Ranong across the peninsula. It connects the long central Gulf coast with the wider southern provinces.

Songkhla

Songkhla includes the cities of Songkhla and Hat Yai. The province reaches from the Gulf and lake landscape to the Malaysian border.

Satun

Satun is a southern border province facing the Andaman Sea. Its territory includes islands in the Tarutao area.

Trang

Trang faces the Andaman on the peninsula’s western side. Inland it meets Phatthalung across the southern mountain country.

Phatthalung

Phatthalung lies beside the western shore of the Songkhla lake system. Its water boundary is a lake shore rather than an open-sea coast.

Pattani

Pattani is one of the provinces associated with Patani Malay language and Muslim cultural traditions. It lies on the Gulf rather than the Malaysian land border.

Yala

Yala is the only province in the far southern Pattani-Yala-Narathiwat group without a sea coast. Its southern boundary meets Malaysia.

Narathiwat

Narathiwat links the far southern Gulf coast with the Malaysian frontier. It lies east of Yala and southeast of Pattani.

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