Mueang Satun District


Mueang Satun is the capital district of Satun Province, southern Thailand.

History

As a punishment for the retaliation against Siamese Kingdom, King Rama III ordered Syburi to be divided into four separate mueangs: Kubang Pasu, Syburi, Perlis, and Satun in 1833. He set Mueang Satun under Nakhon Si Thammarat. The kingdom was known as Setul Mambang Segara.
In 1897, King Chulalongkorn reunified the four cities under the newly established Monthon Syburi. When the United Kingdom and Siam signed the Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909, only Satun remained with Siam, which was then placed under Monthon Phuket in 1910, until 1933.
Originally Satun Province was divided into two districts and one minor district. Mambang was one of these two original districts, which was renamed "Mueang Satun" in 1938, when all capital districts were named according to the corresponding province name.

Geography

Neighboring districts are Tha Phae, Khuan Don of Satun Province, the state Perlis of Malaysia and the Andaman Sea. The Tarutao National Marine Park containing the Tarutao and Adang archipelagos belong to the district. Also some parts of the boundary area with Malaysia is protected in the Thale Ban National Park. Satun's location permits it to host Thailand's landing points for optical fiber submarine communications cable Segment FEA of the 28,000-kilometer-long FLAG ; and for the 49,000-kilometer-long SEA-ME-WE 3, which links regions of Southeast Asia to the Middle East and Western Europe.

Administration

The district is divided into 12 sub-districts, which are further subdivided into 67 villages. The town Satun covers tambon Phiman. There are a further three townships : Chalung and Che Bi Lang, both covering parts of the same-named tambons, and Khlong Khut covers tambon Khlong Khut. There are also 10 tambon administrative organizations.