Nong Bua Lamphu (Province)

Nong Bua Lamphu
หนองบัวลำภู
statistics
Capital:	Nong Bua Lamphu
Telephone code:	042
Surface:	3,859.1 km² 55.
Residents:	500.913 (2009) 49.
Population density :	129 E / km² 31.
ISO 3166-2 :
Governor :
map

Shrine with the city pillar ( Lak Müang )

Nong Bua Lamphu ( Thai : หนองบัวลำภู , [ nɔ̌ːŋ būa lām pʰūː ]) is a province ( Changwat ) in the northeast region of Thailand , the Isan . The capital of Nong Bua Lamphu Province is also called Nong Bua Lamphu .

geography

The province is located about 550 kilometers northeast of the capital Bangkok in the middle of the Khorat plateau .

Neighboring provinces:
north	Udon Thani
east	Udon Thani
south	Khon Kaen
west	Loei

climate

The climate is tropical - monsoonal .

history

Around 1768, brothers Phra Vo and Phra Ta from the Suvarnkut family , who came from Vientiane and wanted to establish an independent area, settled here. While Phra Ta was killed by the Burmese as early as 1768, Phra Vo developed a small rule that he called Nakhon Khuankhan Karb Keo Bua Ban . From this later Nong Bua Lamphu developed.

Nong Bua Lamphu was initially part of Udon Thani Province and became an independent province in 1993 as part of the policy of decentralization. Nong Bua Lamphu was therefore, together with Amnat Charoen and Sa Kaeo , one of the three youngest provinces in the country until the creation of Bueng Kan Province in 2011.

Economy and Importance

In 2011, the "Gross Provincial Product" (was GDP ) of the province 17.929 billion baht (about 440 million euros). That corresponds to 33,314 baht per person (approx. 810 euros), only about a fifth of the national average. This makes Nong Bua Lamphu one of the economically weakest provinces in Thailand. In Thailand's 2002 socio-economic survey, Nong Bua Lamphu was the poorest province in the country with a poverty rate of around 40%. The minimum wage in the province is 165 baht (around 4 euros) per day.

Data

The table below shows the share of the economic sectors in the gross provincial product in%.

Industry	2006	2007	2008
Agriculture	27.4	28.4	27.7
Industry	12.5	14.1	13.9
Other	60.1	57.5	58.4

All figures in%

Land use

The following land use is documented for the province:

• Forest area: 371,265 Rai (232.0 km²), 15.4% of the total area
• Agricultural area: 1,346,327 Rai (841.5 km²), 55.5% of the total area
• Unclassified area: 694,337 rai (434.0 km²), 28.8% of the total area

The province of Nong Bua Lamphu has a total of 497 wetlands with an area of ​​38.4 km², which are used more or less intensively for agriculture .

Culture and sights

In the Erawan Cave

• Wat Tham Klong Phen - a Buddhist temple complex ( wat ) on the site of a Khmer temple
• The Erawan Cave (Thai: ถ้ำ เอราวัณ - Tham Erawan ) in the Na Wang district
• Local festivals:
  • Boon Bung Fai Fest - the rocket festival is held annually in June
• National parks :
  • Phu Kao National Park - Phu Phan Kham

Symbols

The seal of the province shows King Naresuan in his shrine. The shrine was built in 1574 when he was raising troops to fight the King of Lan Xang . Behind the shrine is a pond with the tiger lotus ( Nymphaea lotus ), which is also the local flower. The local tree is the Siamese rosewood ( Dalbergia cochinchinensis ).

The motto of Nong Bua Lamphu Province is:

"The city erected the statue in memory of King Naresuan the Great,

Here are the Phu Kao and Phu Phan Kham National Parks,

The land of Luang Pu Khao, a revered Buddhist teacher,

The Erawan Cave and the city of Nakhon Khuan Khan Kaap Kaeo Buaban. "

Administrative units

Provincial Administration

The province is divided into six Amphoe ('districts' or 'counties'). These are further divided into 59 tambon ('subdistricts' or 'municipalities') and 636 muban ('villages').

No. Amphoe name Thai 1 Mueang Nong Bua Lamphu อำเภอ เมือง หนองบัวลำภู 2 Well sound อำเภอ นากลาง 3 Non Sang อำเภอ โนนสัง 4th Si Bun Rueang อำเภอ ศรีบุญเรือง 5 Suwannakhuha อำเภอ สุวรรณคูหา 6th Well Wang อำเภอ นา วัง

Map of the Amphoe

Local administration

A provincial administrative organization ( บริหาร ส่วน จังหวัด , อบ จ for short , Ongkan Borihan suan Changwat ; English Provincial Administrative Organization , PAO) exists for the entire area of ​​the province .

In the province there is one commune with “town” status ( Thesaban Mueang ) : Nong Bua Lamphu , there are also 12 communes with “small town” status ( Thesaban Tambon ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gross Regional and Provincial Product, Chain Volume Measures 2011 ( Memento of October 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.5 MB), National Economic and Social Development Board. accessed on November 28, 2015
2. ↑ Somchai Jitsuchon, Kaspar Richter: Thailand's Poverty Maps. From construction to application. (PDF; 3.9 MB) In: More Than a Pretty Picture. Using Poverty Maps to Design Better Policies and Interventions. World Bank, Washington DC 2007, p. 256.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Thailand in Figures (2011), p. 343.
4. ↑ Edmund JV Oh, Blake D. Ratner, Simon Bush, Komathi Kolandai and Terence Y. Too (eds.): Wetlands Governance in the Mekong Region: country reports on the legal-institutional framework and economic valuation of aquatic resources . 2005. (PDF; 4.7 MB)
5. ↑ Department of Provincial Administration : As of 2012 (in Thai)

literature

• Thailand in Figures 2011 . Nonthaburi: Alpha Research 13 A. 2011. ISBN 9786167526034 .

Web links

Commons : Nong Bua Lamphu  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Overview map of Nong Bua Lamphu Province (names in English and Thai) [last accessed on November 13, 2013]
• Description of Phu Kao National Park - Phu Phan Kham (in English)

Coordinates: 17 ° 10 '  N , 102 ° 23'  E