 Trang or Tab Tiang Town is located some 828 kms. from Bangkok. It is another big city of the
South, being the communication center to Nakhom Si Thammarat. Rubber plants have been
firstly grown in this province by Phraya Rasdanupradit MahissaraPhakdi who got the seedling
stocks from Malaysia. It had been a sea port of Thailand's west coast on the seashore of the
Indian Ocean in the old days. It occupies and area of 4,917 square kilometers bordering on
Nakhon Si Thammarat to the north, Satun and the Indian Ocean to the south, Phattalung to the
east and the Indian Ocean and Krabi to the west. It is administratively divided into 7 Amphoes
and 1 King Amphoe : Muang, Huai Yot, Kantang, Palian, Sikao, Yan Ta Khao and King
Amphoe Na Yong Wang Wiset.
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