Satun
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Satun is a town (thesaban mueang) in southern 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...
, capital of the Satun Province
Satun Province
Satun is one of the southern provinces of Thailand. Neighboring provinces are Trang, Phatthalung and Songkhla...
. It covers the whole 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...
Phiman of Mueang Satun district
Amphoe Mueang Satun
Mueang Satun is the capital district of Satun Province, southern Thailand.-History:Due to many problems in Syburi state, King Rama III ordered the division of Syburi into 4 separate mueang - Kubang Pasu, Syburi, Perlis and Satun in 1833...
. As of 2005 it has a population of 21,498.