Mueang Nonthaburi is the capital district (amphoe mueang) of Nonthaburi province

Nonthaburi Province

Nonthaburi is one of the central provinces of Thailand. Neighboring provinces are Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya, Pathum Thani, Bangkok and Nakhon Pathom....

 in 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...

. The city of Nonthaburi has 267,001 inhabitants, while the whole district has 348,553.

History

The district was originally named Talat Khwan. Simon de la Loubère

Simon de la Loubère

Simon de la Loubère was a French diplomat, writer, mathematician and poet.-Mission to Siam:Simon de la Loubère led an embassy to Siam in 1687 . The embassy, composed of five warships, arrived in Bangkok in October 1687 and was received by Ok-khun Chamnan...

, who was a French envoy extraordinary to the king of Ayutthaya

Ayutthaya kingdom

Ayutthaya was a Siamese kingdom that existed from 1350 to 1767. Ayutthaya was friendly towards foreign traders, including the Chinese, Vietnamese , Indians, Japanese and Persians, and later the Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch and French, permitting them to set up villages outside the walls of the...

, wrote in his book about Talat Khwan (Talacoan) as a principle place of the Chaophraya river side. However it is unknown what year it was established. In 1917 the provincial administration of Nonthaburi was moved into the district, and thus the district was renamed to Mueang Nonthaburi. From January 1 1943 till May 9 1946 the province Nonthaburi was abolished and split between Thonburi and Phra Nakhon province, thus the district, which was then under Phra Nakhon province, was renamed to simply Nonthaburi. After the recreation of the province it changed back to be Mueang Nonthaburi.

Administration

The district is subdivided into 10 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 77 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 city (thesaban nakhon) of Nonthaburi

Nonthaburi town

Nonthaburi is the principal city of the district and province of the same name in Thailand.Nonthaburi has city status and covers five of the tambon of Mueang Nonthaburi district - Suan Yai, Talat Khwan, Bang Khen, Bang Kraso and Tha Sai. As of January 2011, it has a population of 260,555, making...

 covers the tambon Suan Yai, Talat Khwan, Bang Khen, Bang Kraso and Tha Sai. Bang Si Mueang has town status (thesaban mueang) and covers the tambon Bang Si Mueang and Bang Krang. Sai Ma has township status (thesaban tambon) and covers the same-named tambon.

No.	Name	Thai	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...	Villages
1.	Suan Yai	สวนใหญ่	39,270	9
2.	Talat Khwan	ตลาดขวัญ	55,298	11
3.	Bang Khen	บางเขน	42,819	9
4.	Bang Kraso	บางกระสอ	55,574	9
5.	Tha Sai	ท่าทราย	73,827	7
6.	Bang Phai	บางไผ่	8,027	5
7.	Bang Si Mueang	บางศรีเมือง	21,986	5
8.	Bang Krang	บางกร่าง	22,095	10
9.	Sai Ma	ไทรม้า	17,261	6
10.	Bang Rak Noi	บางรักน้อย	15,344	6