Tak Bai

Town in Narathiwat, Thailand

Tak Bai

ตากใบ

Town

Tak Bai

Location in Thailand

Coordinates: 6°15′33″N 102°3′11″E﻿ / ﻿6.25917°N 102.05306°E﻿ / 6.25917; 102.05306
Country| Thailand
Province| Narathiwat
District| Tak Bai
Population

(2007)

• Total| 17,317

Tak Bai (Thai: ตากใบ; pronounced [tàːk bāj] Malay: Tabal) is the capital of Tak Bai District, Narathiwat Province, Thailand. It is situated on the western bank of the Golok River estuary, which is the natural international boundary between Thailand and Malaysia. Visitors can enter Malaysia via Pengkalan Kubor, Kelantan with a ferry service.

Administratively it is a town (thesaban mueang), and covers 9.14 km2 of the subdistrict (tambon) Che He. As of 2007 it has a population of 17,317.[1]

## Notable incidents

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It is the location of the Tak Bai Incident of 25 October 2004 in which at least 85 demonstrators died.

## History

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During the 19th century it was known as Tabal, part of the state of Kelantan, then an autonomous tributary state of Siam.[2][3] Under the 1909 Anglo-Siamese Treaty the Golok River was made the new border and thus Tabal was reassigned to Narathiwat Province. The town was created as a sanitary district (sukhaphiban) in 1956.[4] Like all sanitary districts, it was upgraded to a subdistrict municipality (thesaban tambon) in May 1999. On 31 January 2008 it was upgraded to a town (thesaban mueang).[5]

## References

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1. ^ "Population statistics 2007". Department of Provincial administration. Archived from the original on 2012-08-05.
2. ^ "NARATHIWAT DARI SEGI SOSIO-POLITIKO-EKONOMI" (PDF). Retrieved 14 August 2019.
3. ^ "TUAN TABAL (M. 1891) DAN SUMBANGANNYA DALAM PERKEMBANGAN ISLAM DI TANAH MELAYU" (PDF). Retrieved 14 August 2019.
4. ^ ประกาศกระทรวงมหาดไทย เรื่อง จัดตั้งสุขาภิบาลตากใบ อำเภอตากใบ จังหวัดนราธิวาส (PDF). Royal Gazette (in Thai). 73 (75 ง ฉบับพิเศษ): 92–93. September 20, 1956. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 10, 2008.
5. ^ "รายงานการประชุม คณะกรรมการพิจารณาร่างกฎหมายของกระทรวงมหาดไทย คณะที่ 2 ครั้งที่ 51/2550". Ministry of Interior. 2007-11-22. Archived from the original on 2008-09-10.

## External links

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* Website of the town (Thai)

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