Nong Bua Lamphu Province

state of Thailand
province in Thailand
Nong Bua Lamphu ( Thai : หนองบัวลำภู, RTGS : Nong Bua Lam Phu, pronounced [ nɔ̌ːŋ būa̯ lām pʰūː ] ) is one of Thailand ‘s seventy-seven provinces ( changwat ) lies in upper northeastern Thailand besides called Isan. Neighbouring provinces are ( from north clockwise ) Udon Thani, Khon Kaen, and Loei .

geography [edit ]

Nong Bua Lam Phu is in the center of the Khorat Plateau. The entire afforest area is 480 km2 ( 190 sq nautical mile ) or 11.7 percentage of provincial sphere. [ 2 ]

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paleontological remains [edit ]

Chalawan, an extinct genus of crocodylin, is known entirely from its type specimen 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 continue vertebrate fossil that has been found from the formation. It contains a one species, Chalawan thailandicus. [ 5 ]

history [edit ]

Nong Bua Lam Phu is celebrated as the spot where in the sixteenth century Naresuan, the king-liberator of Siam, came to learn of the result of a war between the Lao and Burmese in the area of Vientiane. This place was farseeing a Lao stronghold. During the being 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 ( พระเจ้าศิริบุญสาร ), the survive freelancer king of Vientiane. [ 6 ] In 1827, Chao Anou of Vientiane designated Phagna Narin to be governor at the onset of the lao Rebellion of 1826–1828. Under Thai rule, the province primitively 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 .

economy [edit ]

Nong Bua Lamphu is the poorest province in Thailand according to the Bangkok Post. Incomes, as of 2018, median 41,000 baht per annum. [ 7 ] The province is largely agrarian. 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 immunity to flooding. In 2016, more than one third of the available agricultural farming in Nong Bua Lamphu was used for sugarcane plantations. According to the provincial Office of Agricultural Economics, sugarcane polish is expected to rise. In contrast, the sphere devoted to rice farming flinch by 73 percentage from 2000 to 2016. [ 8 ]

Symbols [edit ]

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 kingdom of Taungoo. 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 [edit ]

provincial government [edit ]

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

local politics [edit ]

As of 26 November 2019 there are : [ 9 ] one Nong Bua Lamphu Provincial Administration Organisation ( 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 accomplishment index 2017 [edit ]

Health

Education

Employment

Income

Housing

Family

Transport

Participation

Nong Bua Lamphu, with a 2017 HAI value of 0.5857 is “average”. It occupies 39th place in the ranking.

Since 2003, the United Nations Development Programme ( UNDP ) in Thailand has tracked build up on human development at the sub-national level using the Human Achievement Index ( HAI ), a composite index covering eight samara areas of homo development. The National Economic and Social Development Board ( NESDB ) has taken over this tax since 2017. [ 4 ]

Rank
Classification

1 – 15
“high”

16 – 30
“somewhat high”

31 – 45
“average”

45 – 60
“somewhat low”

61 – 77
“low”

Map with provinces and HAI 2017 rankings