Geograph

The province lies on the low alluvial flats of the Chao Phraya River that flows through the capital. Many canals (khlongs) cross the province and feed the rice paddies. There is no forest area in the province.

History

Pathum Thani province has been settled for at least 300 years since the reign of King Narai of Ayutthaya. In 1659, Mang Nanthamit brought the Mon people from the town of Mottama. Evacuating from the Burmese war, King Narai gave the Mon people a settlement at Ban Sam Khok. Several years later, in the reign of King Rama II there was a great migration of Mon people from the town of Mottama to Thailand called "Mon Yai". He made some of the Mon people to live in Ban Sam Khok as well. From a small community Ban Sam Khok became a town Sam Khok later.

Later, on 23 August 1815, King Rama II changed the name of Sam Khok to the town of "Pratum Thani". In 1918, King Rama VI ordered to use the word "province" instead of "town" and changed the spelling of the name from "Pratum Thani" to "Pathum Thani".

In 1932, in the reign of King Rama VII, he ordered to collapsed Thanyaburi province to come up with Pathum Thani. Pathum Thani province has divided the rule into 7 districts as in the present.

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