Mueang Chanthaburi is the capital district (Amphoe Mueang) of Chanthaburi Province

Chanthaburi Province

Chanthaburi is a province of Thailand. It is located in the east of Thailand, at the border to Battambang and Pailin of Cambodia and the shore to the Gulf of Thailand...

, eastern 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...

.

Geography

Neighboring districts are (from the north clockwise) Khao Khitchakut, Makham

Amphoe Makham

Makham is a district in the center part of Chanthaburi Province, eastern Thailand.-History:The district was established in 1899, then named Tha Luang district. It dates back to an ancient Khmer city, which was under Thai rule since the Ayutthaya era...

, Khlung

Amphoe Khlung

Khlung is the southernmost district of Chanthaburi Province, eastern Thailand.-Geography:Neighboring districts are Laem Sing, Mueang Chanthaburi, Makham, Pong Nam Ron of Chanthaburi Province, Bo Rai, Khao Saming and Laem Ngop of Trat Province...

, Laem Sing

Amphoe Laem Sing

-History:Laem Sing district was created in 1898, then named Phlio district. In 1909 the government allocated budget for the new district office, and they changed the district name to Laem Sing at the same time. The district office was re-built in 1966 and 1996....

 and Tha Mai

Amphoe Tha Mai

-History:The district was created in 1900, then named Khamong . 4 years later the district office was moved to the area of Wat Khao Phloi Waen, and the district name was changed accordingly to Phloi Waen...

 of Chanthaburi Province.

Administration

The district is subdivided into 11 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 98 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...

). The town (thesaban mueang) Chanthaburi

Chanthaburi

Chanthaburi ) is a town in the east of Thailand, at the banks of the Chanthaburi River. It is the capital of the Chanthaburi Province and the Mueang Chanthaburi district....

 covers the whole tambon Talat and Wat Mai. Three further 5 townships (thesaban tambon - Phlapphla Narai covers parts of tambon Phlapphla and Khlong Narai, Chanthanimit the whole tambon Chantha Nimit, and Tha Chang, Nong Bua and Bang Ka Cha each cover parts of the same-named tambon. There are further 8 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.	Talat	ตลาด
10,872
2.	Wat Mai	วัดใหม่
16,730
3.	Khlong Narai	คลองนารายณ์	14	7,838
4.	Ko Khwang	เกาะขวาง	9	9,678
5.	Khom Bang	คมบาง	10	4,421
6.	Tha Chang	ท่าช้าง	12	24,102
7.	Chanthanimit	จันทนิมิต	9	14,153
8.	Bang Kacha	บางกะจะ	10	9,520
9.	Salaeng	แสลง	10	4,621
10.	Nong Bua	หนองบัว	11	6,007
11.	Phlapphla	พลับพลา	13	11,261