Ratchaburi
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ราชบุรี Ratchaburi |
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| Coordinates | 13 ° 32 ' N , 99 ° 49' E | ||
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| Country | Thailand | ||
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| ISO 3166-2 | TH-70 | ||
| Residents | 50,000 | ||
Ratchaburi ( Thai : ราชบุรี , pronounced: [râːtt͡ɕʰáʔbùʔriː] , colloquially Ratburi , [râːtbùʔriː] ; full title: Thesaban Mueang Ratchaburi , เทศบาล เมือง ราชบุรี ) is a city ( เทศบาล เมือง ) in the province of Ratchaburi . Ratchaburi is also the "capital" of Ratchaburi Province.
Ratchaburi Province is located in the western part of the central region of Thailand .
geography
Ratchaburi is one of the oldest cities in Thailand, it is located about 80 kilometers west of Bangkok on the lower reaches of the Mae Nam Mae Klong (Mae Klong River) .
The district's main water resource is the Mae Nam Mae Klong River .
history
Once the city was directly on the coast of the Gulf of Thailand , as a result of the sedimentation of the Mae Nam Mae Klong, it moved 30 km to the south over time. Nevertheless, Ratchaburi has remained an important trading center. Excavations have shown that the city was already settled in the Bronze Age , the city itself has been known since around the turn of the ages. King Ramkhamhaeng wrested Ratchaburi from the Khmer and incorporated the city into the Sukhothai kingdom . Later it was an important trading center in the Kingdom of Ayutthaya (first under Ramathibodi I ). In 1768 King Taksin threw the Burmese , who had recently destroyed Ayutthaya, from Ratchaburi and made the city part of the Kingdom of Siam .
traffic
Ratchaburi has a train station on the Southern Railway , which connects Bangkok with Malaysia .
Personalities
- Dawuth Dinkhet (born 1983), football player
- Peerapong Pichitchotirat (* 1984), football player
- Adisorn Daeng-rueng (* 1986), soccer player
- Suttinun Phuk-hom (* 1987), football player
- Chalermsuk Kaewsuktae (* 1989), football player
- Todsapol Lated (* 1989), soccer player
- Areerat Intadis (* 1996), shot put
- Pawee Tanthatemee (* 1996), soccer player
- Kanarin Thawornsak (* 1997), football player
Attractions
- Khao Wang - Palace on a 44 m high hill west of the city, built at the behest of King Chulalongkorn (Rama V) , who is said to have visited him only once in 1877.
- Wat Mahathat - temple from the Lop-Buri period, partly from the 9th - 10th centuries .
- Ratchaburi National Museum - a brief outline of the history of Thailand (with English tablets), especially the sword of King Vajiravudh (Rama VI) .
- the Khao Bin Cave in the "Khao Bin Forest Park", about 20 kilometers northwest of Ratchaburi in Tambon Hin Kong
Web links
- City map of Ratchaburi ( Memento of November 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (names in English and Thai), accessed on December 14, 2019
