Sainyabuli Province

ໄຊ ຍະ ບູ ລີ Sainyabuli
Basic data
Country	Laos
Capital	Muang Sainyabuli
surface	16,389 km²
Residents	381,376 (2015 census)
density	23 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	LA-XA

19.3 101.7Coordinates: 19 ° 18 ' N , 101 ° 42' E

Sainyabuli (also Sayaboury , Sayabouri , Sayaburi , Xaignabouri , Xaignabouli , Sayabury , Xayaboury , Sayabouly , Xayabury , Xainyaburi or Xainyaburi ; Lao : ໄຊ ຍະ ບູ ລີ , pronunciation: [ sái.ɲa.bǔː.líː ] Thai ไชย บุรี , RTGS : Chaiyaburi) is a province ( Khwaeng ) in the northwest of Laos .

geography

Outline map of the province

The province is located in the northwest of the country and covers almost the entire area west of the Mekong within the Laotian national borders . Bordering provinces are (clockwise from north): Bokeo , Oudomxay , Luang Prabang and Vientiane . Sainyabuli also borders the following provinces in Thailand (clockwise from south): Loei , Phitsanulok , Uttaradit , Nan and Phayao .

Sainyabuli is hilly to mountainous, the Luang Prabang mountain range forms a natural border between Thailand and Laos. With the exception of the connections from the provincial capital to Luang Prabang and the Thai provinces of Loei and Nan, there are no paved roads. The province is densely forested and has some deposits of brown coal . It is considered to be the rice bowl of northern Laos as most of the other northern provinces are too mountainous to grow rice. In addition, corn , oranges , cotton , peanuts and sesame grown.

history

Sainyabuli traditionally belonged to the kingdom of Luang Phrabang , which became a vassal kingdom of Siam in 1779 . In 1893, Siam had to cede the Laotian areas east of the Mekong to French Indochina , but not the Sainyabuli west of the river. This only followed after further French pressure in 1904, so that the territory of the Kingdom of Luang Phrabang, now under French protectorate, was restored. After the Franco-Thai War , Sainyabuli, together with the southern Laotian province of Champasak , was added to Thailand under pressure from Japan in 1941 and became the Thai province of Lan Chang (after the historical kingdom of Lan Xang ). Thailand returned the area to France in 1946. This was a condition for the country's accession to the United Nations.

Economy and environment

The Xayaburi Dam has been under construction since 2012 and is to become one of the largest hydropower plants on the Lower Mekong (1,260 MW ). The project meets with concerns from the point of view of environmental protection, agriculture and fishing.

Administrative units

The province consists of the following districts (muang) :

code	District	Lao

08-01	Sainyabuli	ເມືອງ ໄຊ ຍະ ບູ ລີ
08-02	Khop	ເມືອງ ຄອບ
08-03	Hongsa	ເມືອງ ຫົງ ສາ
08-04	Ngeun	ເມືອງ ເງິນ
08-05	Xianghon (Xienghone)	ເມືອງ ຊຽງ ຮ່ອນ
08-06	Phiang	ເມືອງ ພຽງ
08-07	Paklai (Parklai)	ເມືອງ ປາກ ລາຍ
08-08	Kenthao (Kenethao)	ເມືອງ ແກ່ນ ທ້າວ
08-09	Messengers (messengers)	ເມືອງ ບໍ່ ແຕນ
08-10	Thongmixai (Thongmyxay)	ເມືອງ ທົ່ງ ມີ ໄຊ
08-11	Xaisathan	ເມືອງ ໄຊ ສະ ຖານ

Individual evidence

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Web links

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