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Saturday, November 6, 2010

Great distance between Bangkok and Thailand's second largest city, Nonthaburi

Bangkok is the greatest metropolis in the Indochina region and the most important city and the capital city of Thailand. located in north of Singapore and Malaysia and in south of China and Hong Kong, it has every good conditions for development and international business.
9100000 residents of Bangkok are accommodated in 1568 square kilometers of dense urban fabric. Of course the area of Bangkok metropolitan area is 7761 square kilometers. The population of this urban area is less than 12 million people. Therefore, it is obvious that Bangkok is one of the largest cities of Asia and even the world.
Bangkok has been a small trading center between 14th to 18th centuries. But it was announced as a new capital in 1782. This city, which is administered in 50 districts, has developed new public transit networks like MRT, BRT and SRT lines, but it still has traffic congestion problems. 
Although the urbanization and urbanism of Thailand has been developing fast through the second half of the twentieth century, but it seems that there is differences in the urbanization of Thai cities with Bangkok as the greatest city. Nonthaburi, the second large city of Thailand has 262,158 residents, which is quite little in comparison with the population of the first city. 
It seems that Thailand needs more developed regional planning to accommodate the population in the area of the country.

More readings on Bangkok,Thailand, and Indochina:

Urbanization and Urbanism in Thailand

The Contemporary Urban Problems in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, URBANIZATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES IN HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM: LATIONS AND POLICIES


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