Sankhaburi district

Sankhaburi
สรรคบุรี
District
Wat Phra Kaeo in tambon Phraek Si Racha
Wat Phra Kaeo in tambon Phraek Si Racha
District location in Chai Nat province
District location in Chai Nat province
Coordinates: 15°2′50″N 100°9′42″E / 15.04722°N 100.16167°E / 15.04722; 100.16167
CountryThailand
ProvinceChai Nat
SeatPhraek Si Racha
Area
 • Total
354.8 km2 (137.0 sq mi)
Population
 (2008)
 • Total
67,333
 • Density192.8/km2 (499/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+7 (ICT)
Postal code17140
Geocode1805

Sankhaburi (Thai: สรรคบุรี) is a district (amphoe) in the southern part of Chai Nat province, central Thailand.

History

The name of Sankhaburi or Sawankhaburi has the same meaning as the name of the nearby province, Nakhon Sawan, is "Heavenly City". It was originally known as Phraek Si Racha (the term "Phraek" is a Mon language meaning "water intersection").

The history of Sankhaburi began at about 2,500 years ago. At that time, Sankhaburi depends on Suphannaphum Kingdom (present-day Suphanburi) in this area to Nakhon Sawan as an important trade junction.

Walailak Songsiri and Srisakra Vallibhotama [fr] place the seat of the polity Chinese records of about 1200 call Chen Li Fu in the Phraek Si Racha and Dong Khon area, that is in this district.: 16  Songsiri qualifies the placement herself. Of the small towns running south from Phraek Si Racha to the Suphan and Tha Wa rivers, this is the one that does not continue from the Dvaravati period, and excavation has not settled whether its occupation begins under the Southern Song or under the Yuan. She accounts for this by proposing that the seat moved here from the smaller inland waterways.: 16  David K. Wyatt looked for Chên Li Fu elsewhere. Setting O. W. Wolters's finding that the polity held both a port and an inland capital beside the reconstruction of the ancient shoreline by Phōngsi Wanasin and Thiwa Supcanya, and beside Wolters's note that early Chinese navigators rarely called on the eastern coast of the Bay of Bangkok, he suggested a state centred on Ratchaburi, Nakhon Chai Si or Suphan Buri.: 18 

Geography

Sabkhaburi is located on the Noi river banks, a branch of the Chao Phraya river.

Neighbouring districts are (from the west clockwise) Hankha, Mueang Chai Nat, and Sapphaya of Chai Nat Province; In Buri and Bang Rachan of Sing Buri province; and Doem Bang Nang Buat of Suphan Buri province.

Administration

The district is divided into eight sub-districts (tambons), which are further subdivided into 92 villages (mubans). Phraek Si Racha is a township (thesaban tambon) which covers parts of tambon Phraek Si Racha. There are a further eight tambon administrative organizations (TAO).

No. Name Thai Villages Pop.
1.Phraek Si Rachaแพรกศรีราชา1616,467
2.Thiang Thaeเที่ยงแท้106,283
3.Huai Krotห้วยกรด99,012
4.Pho Ngamโพงาม137,692
5.Bang Khutบางขุด127,316
6.Dong Khonดงคอน1612,121
7.Don Kamดอนกำ82,926
8.Huai Krot Phatthanaห้วยกรดพัฒนา85,516

References

  1. 1 2 Matichon TV (2023-02-23). "Live : รายการ ขรรค์ชัย-สุจิตต์ ทอดน่องท่องเที่ยว ตอน เมืองสวรรค์ สรรคบุรี ชัยนาท ชุมทางการค้า" [Live : Khanchai-Sujit Travel Program Ep Mueang Sawan, Sankhaburi, Chainat the trade junction]. YouTube (in Thai). Retrieved 2023-02-27.
  2. 1 2 Walailak Songsiri (2025). "ในดินแดนแห่งเจนลีฟู นครรัฐที่ไม่ได้อยู่ในอำนาจทางการเมืองของพระเจ้าชัยวรมันที่ ๗ สู่ปัญหาทางประวัติศาสตร์ที่หาทางออกไม่เจอของสังคมไทย" [In the land of Chen Li Fu, a city-state outside the political power of Jayavarman VII, and the historical problem Thai society has not resolved]. Lek-Prapai Viriyaphan Foundation (in Thai). Retrieved 14 July 2025.
  3. ↑ David K. Wyatt (2001). "Relics, Oaths and Politics in Thirteenth-Century Siam" (PDF). Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. 32 (1): 3–65. JSTOR 20072298. Archived from the original on 26 January 2026. Retrieved 10 September 2025.
  4. ↑ "Population statistics 2008". Department of Provincial Administration. Archived from the original on 2012-08-19.