The Provinces
of Siam

A typographic atlas
of the kingdom in
four parts.

Thailand counts seventy-seven provinces. To grasp them all at once you have to step back to four: the mountainous North, the dry-plateau Northeast, the river-plain Central, and the peninsular South. Every province in the country sits in one of these four. The index below lists them all, region by region, with a single line on each.

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Golden temple illuminated at night in Chiang Mai

Plate 01

ภาคเหนือ

Northern Thailand

17 provinces·≈ 12M·Chiang Mai

Wat Phu Tok in Bueng Kan — wooden walkways climbing a dramatic sandstone tower above the Isaan forest

Plate 02

ภาคอีสาน

Isaan

20 provinces·≈ 22M·Nakhon Ratchasima (Korat)

Bangkok cityscape at sunset with the Chao Phraya river

Plate 03

ภาคกลาง

Central Thailand

26 provinces·≈ 22M·Bangkok

Railay Beach in Krabi — towering limestone karsts rising straight out of the Andaman shore

Plate 04

ภาคใต้

Southern Thailand

14 provinces·≈ 9M·Surat Thani

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The four-region division used here is the cultural one — the same one schools and television use. The Royal Society's six-region statistical split breaks Central into Central, East, and West; we keep them together here so the country reads as four. Set in Bebas Neue and Roboto; province lines run with a Georgia italic for claims-to-fame.

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The Provinces
of Siam

Seventy-seven shapes,
four colours.

The Provincesof Siam

Seventy-seven shapes,four colours.

The Provinces
of Siam

Seventy-seven shapes,
four colours.