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Northern Thailand, one of the 5 regional groups
Provinces of Thailand

Thailand is divided into 75 provinces , which are geographically grouped into 6 regions. The capital Bangkok is not a province but a special administrative area and is included as the 76th province since it is administered at the same level as the other 75 provinces....
 of Thailand
Thailand

The Kingdom of Thailand is an independent country that lies in the heart of Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Laos and Myanmar, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the west by the Andaman Sea and Myanmar....
, usually describes the area covered by 17 provinces.

Numbers of the principal highway
Thai highway network

The Thai highway network follows the Right- and left-hand traffic rule of the road. The network is the twin responsibility of the Department of Highways , and the Department of Rural Roads , under the oversight of the Transportation ministry of Thailand....
s in this region begin with the digit 1.

Much of the area's territory is mountainous, making it relatively cool compared to Central Thailand
Central Thailand

Central Thailand is a region of Thailand, covering the broad alluvial plain of the Chao Phraya River. It is separated from Isan by the Phetchabun mountains, and another mountain range separates it from Myanmar to the west....
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The history of Northern Thailand is dominated by the Lanna kingdom, which was founded in 1259 and remained an independent force until the 16th century.






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Northern Thailand, one of the 5 regional groups
Provinces of Thailand

Thailand is divided into 75 provinces , which are geographically grouped into 6 regions. The capital Bangkok is not a province but a special administrative area and is included as the 76th province since it is administered at the same level as the other 75 provinces....
 of Thailand
Thailand

The Kingdom of Thailand is an independent country that lies in the heart of Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Laos and Myanmar, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the west by the Andaman Sea and Myanmar....
, usually describes the area covered by 17 provinces.
Thailand North Numbered
  1. Chiang Mai
    Chiang Mai Province

    Chiang Mai is the second-largest Provinces of Thailand of Thailand, located in the north of the country. Neighboring provinces are Chiang Rai Province, Lampang Province, Lamphun Province, Tak Province, and Mae Hong Son Province....
  2. Chiang Rai
    Chiang Rai Province

    Chiang Rai is the northernmost Provinces of Thailand of Thailand. Neighbouring provinces are Phayao Province, Lampang Province and Chiang Mai Province....
  3. Kamphaeng Phet
    Kamphaeng Phet Province

    Kamphaeng Phet is one of the Provinces of Thailand of Thailand, located in the north of the country. Neighboring provinces are Sukhothai province, Phitsanulok province, Phichit province, Nakhon Sawan province and Tak province....
  4. Lampang
    Lampang Province

    Lampang is one of the northern Provinces of Thailand of Thailand. Neighboring provinces are Chiang Rai Province, Phayao Province, Phrae Province, Sukhothai Province, Tak Province, Lamphun Province and Chiang Mai Province....
  5. Lamphun
    Lamphun Province

    Lamphun is one of the northern Provinces of Thailand of Thailand. Neighboring provinces are Chiang Mai Province, Lampang Province and Tak Province....
  6. Mae Hong Son
    Mae Hong Son Province

    Mae Hong Son is one of the northern Provinces of Thailand of Thailand, and at the same time the westernmost. Neighboring provinces are Shan State of Myanmar, Chiang Mai province and Tak province....
  7. Nakhon Sawan
    Nakhon Sawan Province

    Nakhon Sawan is one of the Provinces of Thailand of Thailand. Neighboring Provinces are Kamphaeng Phet Province, Phichit Province, Phetchabun Province, Lopburi Province, Sing Buri Province, Chainat Province, Uthai Thani Province and Tak Province....
  8. Nan
    Nan Province

    Nan is one of the northern Provinces of Thailand of Thailand. Neighboring provinces are Uttaradit province, Phrae province and Phayao province....
  9. Phayao
    Phayao Province

    Phayao is one of the northern Provinces of Thailand of Thailand. Neighboring provinces are Nan province, Phrae province, Lampang province and Chiang Rai province....
  10. Phetchabun
    Phetchabun Province

    Phetchabun is one of the northern Provinces of Thailand of Thailand. Neighboring provinces are Loei Province, Khon Kaen Province, Chaiyaphum Province, Lopburi Province, Nakhon Sawan Province, Phichit Province and Phitsanulok Province....
  11. Phichit
    Phichit Province

    Phichit is one of the Provinces of Thailand of Thailand, located in the north of the country. Neighboring provinces are Phitsanulok Province, Phetchabun Province, Nakhon Sawan Province and Kamphaeng Phet Province....
  12. Phitsanulok
    Phitsanulok Province

    Phitsanulok is one of the Provinces of Thailand of Thailand, located in the North of Thailand. Neighboring provinces are Loei Province, Phetchabun Province, Phichit Province, Kamphaeng Phet Province, Sukhothai Province, Uttaradit Province....
  13. Phrae
    Phrae Province

    Phrae is one of the northern Provinces of Thailand of Thailand. Neighboring provinces are Phayao Province, Nan Province, Uttaradit Province, Sukhothai Province and Lampang Province....
  14. Sukhothai
    Sukhothai Province

    Sukhothai is one of the northern Provinces of Thailand of Thailand. Neighboring provinces are Phrae Province, Uttaradit Province, Phitsanulok Province, Kamphaeng Phet Province, Tak Province and Lampang Province....
  15. Tak
    Tak Province

    Tak is one of the northern Provinces of Thailand of Thailand. Neighboring provinces are Mae Hong Son Province, Chiang Mai Province, Lamphun province, Lampang Province, Sukhothai Province, Kamphaeng Phet Province, Nakhon Sawan Province, Uthai Thani Province and Kanchanaburi Province....
  16. Uthai Thani
    Uthai Thani Province

    Uthai Thani is one of the Provinces of Thailand of Thailand. Neighboring provinces are Nakhon Sawan Province, Chainat Province, Suphanburi Province, Kanchanaburi Province and Tak Province....
  17. Uttaradit
    Uttaradit Province

    Uttaradit is one of the northern Provinces of Thailand of Thailand. Neighboring provinces are Phitsanulok Province, Sukhothai Province, Phrae Province and Nan Province....


Numbers of the principal highway
Thai highway network

The Thai highway network follows the Right- and left-hand traffic rule of the road. The network is the twin responsibility of the Department of Highways , and the Department of Rural Roads , under the oversight of the Transportation ministry of Thailand....
s in this region begin with the digit 1.

Much of the area's territory is mountainous, making it relatively cool compared to Central Thailand
Central Thailand

Central Thailand is a region of Thailand, covering the broad alluvial plain of the Chao Phraya River. It is separated from Isan by the Phetchabun mountains, and another mountain range separates it from Myanmar to the west....
.

The history of Northern Thailand is dominated by the Lanna kingdom, which was founded in 1259 and remained an independent force until the 16th century. Their version of the lunisolar Buddhist calendar
Buddhist calendar

The Buddhist calendar is used on mainland Southeast Asia in the countries of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar and Sri Lanka in several related forms....
 ran two months ahead of what is now the modern Thai lunar calendar
Thai lunar calendar

The Thai lunar calendar is Thailand's version of the lunisolar calendar Buddhist calendar used in the southeast Asian countries of Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar....
; this is reflected in their version of Thailand's Loy Krathong
Loy Krathong

Loy Krathong is a festival celebrated annually throughout Thailand....
 festival, which occurs in Thailand's Lunar Month 12, but in the former lands of Lanna is the , Lunar Month 2.

In 2000, Northern Thailand banned caffeine
Caffeine

Caffeine is a bitter, white crystalline xanthine alkaloid that acts as a psychoactive stimulant drug and a mild diuretic. Caffeine was discovered by a German chemist, Friedrich Ferdinand Runge, in 1819....
 to thwart methamphetamine
Methamphetamine

is a stimulant and sympathomimetics psychoactive drug. It is a member of the family of phenylethylamines. The levorotary levomethamphetamine is an over-the-counter drug and used in Vicks Inhalers for nasal decongestion and does not possess the Central nervous system activity of dextro or racemic methamphetamine....
 production .

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