Sainyabuli Province
ໄຊ ຍະ ບູ ລີ Sainyabuli
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Country | Laos |
Capital | Muang Sainyabuli |
surface | 16,389 km² |
Residents | 381,376 (2015 census) |
density | 23 inhabitants per km² |
ISO 3166-2 | LA-XA |
Coordinates: 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
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) :
Individual evidence
- ↑ Map of Laos (physical) ( Memento of the original from November 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.