Amphoe Khlong Khuean
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Khlong Khuean is a district (Amphoe
Amphoe
An amphoe is the second level administrative subdivision of Thailand. Usually translated as district, amphoe make up the provinces, and are analogous to a county seat...

) of Chachoengsao Province
Chachoengsao Province
Chachoengsao is a province of Thailand. Neighboring provinces are Prachin Buri, Sa Kaeo, Chanthaburi, Chon Buri, Samut Prakan, Bangkok, Pathum Thani and Nakhon Nayok. It also has a short coast to the Gulf of Thailand.-History:Chachoengsao or Paet Rio is a province in the Central region...

, central Thailand
Thailand
Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...

.

History

The district was created on 31 May 1993 by splitting it from Bang Khla district
Amphoe Bang Khla
Bang Khla is a district of Chachoengsao Province, central Thailand.-History:Bang Khla district was established in 1901. The district office was located in Wat Mai Bang Khla, nowadays in Tambon Ban Suan. Bang Khla is the name of the village Ban Bang Khla, which is located at the Khlong Bang Khla...

.

Following a decision of the Thai government on May 15 2007, all of the 81 minor districts were to be upgraded to full districts. With the publishing in the Royal Gazette on August 24 the upgrade became official.

Geography

Neighboring districts are (from the east clockwise) Bang Khla
Amphoe Bang Khla
Bang Khla is a district of Chachoengsao Province, central Thailand.-History:Bang Khla district was established in 1901. The district office was located in Wat Mai Bang Khla, nowadays in Tambon Ban Suan. Bang Khla is the name of the village Ban Bang Khla, which is located at the Khlong Bang Khla...

, Mueang Chachoengsao
Amphoe Mueang Chachoengsao
Mueang Chachoengsao is the capital district of Chachoengsao Province, central Thailand.-History:Mueang Chachoengsao district was established in 1896...

, Bang Nam Priao
Amphoe Bang Nam Priao
Bang Nam Priao is the northwesternmost district of Chachoengsao Province, central Thailand.-History:The old location of the district center of Bang Nam Priao was in Ban Ton Samrong, Tambon Bang Khanak. In 1905 the government built the first district office in Tambon Bang Nam Priao...

 of Chachoengsao Province and Ban Sang
Amphoe Ban Sang
Ban Sang is the westernmost district of Prachinburi Province, central Thailand.-History:In the past the area of he district was dense forest with many wild elephants. Laotians from Vientiane moved to settle their village in the area, which they named Ban Chang...

 of Prachinburi Province
Prachinburi Province
Prachin Buri is a province of Thailand. Neighboring provinces are Nakhon Ratchasima, Sa Kaeo, Chachoengsao and Nakhon Nayok.-Geography:...

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The important water resource is the Bang Pakong River.

Administration

The district is subdivided into 5 subdistricts (tambon
Tambon
Tambon is a local government unit in Thailand. Below district and province , they form the third administrative subdivision level. As of the 2009 there are 7255 tambon, not including the 169 khwaeng of Bangkok, which are set at the same administrative level, thus every district contains 8-10 tambon...

), which are further subdivided into 32 villages (muban
Muban
Muban is the lowest administrative subdivision of Thailand. Usually translated as village, they are the subdivision of tambon. As of 2008, there are 74944 administrative villages in Thailand. As of the 1990 census, the average village consisted of 144 households or 746 persons.A muban does not...

). There are no municipal (thesaban
Thesaban
Thesaban are the municipalities in Thailand. There are three levels of municipalities - city, town and subdistrict municipality. Both Bangkok and Pattaya are special municipal entities outside the thesaban system....

) areas, and 5 Tambon administrative organizations (TAO).
No. Name Thai name Villages Inh.
Population
A population is all the organisms that both belong to the same group or species and live in the same geographical area. The area that is used to define a sexual population is such that inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with individuals...

1. Kon Kaeo ก้อนแก้ว 6 3,094
2. Khlong Khuean คลองเขื่อน 6 3,703
3. Bang Lao บางเล่า 6 2,022
4. Bang Rong บางโรง 7 2,236
5. Bang Talat บางตลาด 7 2,435

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