Every city on BAANLYY

The capital - areas, towers & BTS/MRT transit

UNESCO former royal capital — temple ruins an hour north of Bangkok

The Bridge on the River Kwai, Death Railway history & Erawan Falls

Central province west of Bangkok on the Mae Klong River - dragon-jar ceramics, the Damnoen Saduak floating market, the Ban Pong rail junction & the Suan Phueng mountain resort belt

Upper-central river-junction city where the Ping & Nan rivers form the Chao Phraya at Pak Nam Pho - Bueng Boraphet lake, a famous Chinese New Year dragon parade & the gateway to…

Central industrial & logistics gateway to the Northeast on the Pa Sak River - where the Friendship Highway to Isan begins, the Kaeng Khoi rail junction, Thailand's cement…

Central Thailand's ancient Lavo capital & army town - King Narai's Palace, Phra Prang Sam Yot & the monkeys, the special-forces & artillery garrisons, the Pa Sak Jolasid dam &…

Central rice-plain province on the Tha Chin River ~100km northwest of Bangkok - the Don Chedi monument to King Naresuan's elephant duel, U Thong's Dvaravati ancient town, the…

Small central province ~110km northeast of Bangkok where the rice plain climbs into the Sankamphaeng Range - Sarika & Nang Rong waterfalls, Wang Takrai Park, the Khun Dan Prakan…

Eastern border province ~200km from Bangkok on Highway 33 - the provincial capital and its Crown Prince Hospital, Burapha University's Sakaeo Campus at Watthana Nakhon, the Khmer…

Thailand's quietest lower-northern province and one of its most surprising - 6,647 km2 (30th largest) with 320,445 registered residents in 2024 at 48 people per km2, 73rd of 77…

Thailand's golden bowl and the province almost everyone drives straight past - 968.372 km2, one of the six smallest in the country, on the flat Chao Phraya floodplain about 105km…

The lion city, the last stand at Bang Rachan, and the small province that quietly has TWO general hospitals - 822 km2 on the flat Chao Phraya plain about 140km north of Bangkok…

The place of victory, the province where the Asian Highway ends, and the one small central province that unexpectedly has an international school - 2,469.746 km2 on the left bank…

Mae Klong - the SMALLEST province in Thailand, the market that folds up eight times a day for a train, and the orchard where a king was born - 416.7 km2 at the mouth of the Mae…

Thailand's largest island - beaches & villas

Dramatic Andaman coast & laid-back living

Laid-back Krabi-province island - long beaches & lower rents

Rubber-tree roots, the Emerald Cave & a Hokkien-Chinese coffee-shop culture

Ao Phang Nga Bay’s karst islands (“James Bond Island”), Khao Lak’s beaches & a planned new Andaman airport

Thailand's least populous province, on the Andaman coast at the 44km narrowest point of the Kra Isthmus - the Raksawarin hot springs (the only sulphur-free mineral source in the…

Thailand's southernmost Andaman province, bordering Perlis in Malaysia - Tarutao National Marine Park (the country's second, 51 islands across two groups) with Ko Lipe and its…

Gulf beaches, condos & easy Bangkok access

EEC industrial hub, corporate relocation & the Koh Samet ferry

EEC manufacturing hub - Sriracha, Laem Chabang & corporate housing

Trat province's big island - Mu Ko Chang National Park, beach towns & an on-island immigration office

Inland eastern industrial province adjacent to the EEC - the 304 Industrial Park corridor at Kabin Buri, the Chao Phraya Abhaibhubejhr herbal hospital, the Dvaravati-era Si…

EEC river province (Paet Riu) ~80km east of Bangkok on the Bang Pakong - Wat Sothon's revered Luang Pho Sothon, a major Eastern-Line rail junction, the Gateway City industrial…

Eastern gem-trade & fruit province on the Gulf - Thailand's ruby & sapphire trading hub on Si Chan Rd, the Chanthaboon Waterfront old community, the Cathedral of the Immaculate…

Northern culture capital & digital-nomad base

Golden Triangle gateway - White Temple & highland coffee country

Thailand’s horse-carriage city — kaolin ceramics, teak heritage & the ancient Wat Phra That Lampang Luang

Thailand's first capital — UNESCO World Heritage ruins & the birthplace of the Thai script

Northwestern Myanmar-border province - the Mae Sot trade town, Umphang's Thi Lo Su waterfall & a small verified condo market

Quiet upper-north lake province - Kwan Phayao (Thailand's largest freshwater lake) & the University of Phayao at Mae Ka

Lower-north regional hub on the Nan River - Naresuan University, the Buddhachinaraj hospital, a Northern-Line rail junction & Wat Yai's Phra Phuttha Chinnarat

North-central mountain province in the Pa Sak valley - the cool-climate Khao Kho highland resort & second-home belt, the Phu Thap Boek sea of mist, the Si Thep UNESCO World…

Small central-northern historical province on the Ping River - the UNESCO Kamphaeng Phet Historical Park & Aranyik forest temples, Nakhon Chum's old town, Kamphaeng Phet Rajabhat…

Lower-northern rice-plain province on the Nan and Yom rivers, 347 rail-kilometres north of Bangkok - the Chalawan crocodile legend and Bueng Si Fai lake, Phichit Historical…

Northern Thailand's oldest city ~26km south of Chiang Mai - the Mon kingdom of Hariphunchai founded under Queen Chamadevi, Wat Phra That Hariphunchai's golden chedi, the unique…

Upper-northern river-port province on the Nan 488km from Bangkok - the name means "port of the north" - with two Northern-Line stations in the provincial town including the Class…

The teak-and-indigo Lanna province, and one of the few Thai provincial capitals you can genuinely live in on foot - roots in the Mon kingdom of Haripunchai, absorbed into Lan Na…

Thailand's westernmost province, its most mountainous, and the one furthest from everything else - Mueang Sam Mok, the city of three mists, hemmed in by the Shan Hills across…

Island living - villas, resorts & beaches

Full-moon island culture, yoga & long-stay living

Turtle Island — world-class scuba diving on a tiny Gulf isle

Royal seaside town - relaxed retiree favourite

Hua Hin's home province — Sam Roi Yot & Kui Buri national parks, Pranburi & the Bang Saphan coast

Historic royal province between Bangkok & Hua Hin — Phra Nakhon Khiri palace, Kaeng Krachan National Park & the Cha-am coast

Isaan’s established retiree hub — lake park & value

Isaan’s education & healthcare capital — KKU, Srinagarind & Bueng Kaen Nakhon

The gateway to Isaan — Korat’s malls, the old moat & Suranaree University

Eastern Isaan’s lower-Mekong capital — the Candle Festival, UBU & the Chong Mek border to Laos

Mekong border gateway to Laos — Friendship Bridge, Sala Keoku & the Naga fireballs

Phanom Rung’s ancient Khmer temple, Buriram United football & the FIA Grade 1 Chang International Circuit

Isan lake-and-forest-temple province on Nong Han, the region's largest natural lake - Wat Phra That Choeng Chum, the Ajahn Mun forest tradition at Wat Pa Sutthawat, the Phu Phan…

Lower-Isaan province known as Mueang Chang, the City of Elephants - around a quarter of Thailand's domesticated elephants are raised here by the Kuy at Ban Ta Klang, with the…

Si Nakhon Lamduan - the TENTH most populous province in Thailand at 1.44 million people, and one of its least visible property markets; Prasat Sa Kamphaeng Yai, the largest Khmer…

Central-Isaan rice province on the Chi plain whose 2022 Human Achievement Index of 0.6654 ranked it 10th of 77 - in the "high" band, while Sisaket next door ranked 71st and Surin…

Isaan's university province - its own motto ends Taksila Nakhon, the city of Taxila - where roughly 41,000 students at Mahasarakham University alone, in a province of 929,952,…

Thailand's dinosaur province - Phu Kum Khao at Wat Sakkawan in Sahatsakhan is the country's largest fossil excavation site, with more than 700 bone pieces and the most complete…

Isaan's mountain province, and the one that breaks the region's template - bisected by the Phetchabun range, reaching 1,222m, and 31.4 per cent forest against 4.4 per cent in Roi…

Mountain province on the Mekong border with Laos, and the one that inverts the region's transport pattern - it has an airport in the provincial town, at Na An in Mueang Loei with…

Mekong border province facing Khammouan in Laos, and the one that proves infrastructure depth and rental-market depth are independent - it has an airport with TWO scheduled…

Mekong border province facing Savannakhet across roughly 70km of river, and the point where Thailand's east-west trade route crosses into Laos - the Second Thai-Lao Friendship…

Thailand's newest province, created on 23 March 2011 out of eight districts partitioned off Nong Khai after a proposal that sat unresolved for twenty years - and the province…

The cheap side of the Udon Thani line - a Lan Xang principality traditionally granted to the Lao crown prince, the maternal seat of Chao Anouvong and the place where the future…

The rocket province, and one of the smallest advertised housing markets in Thailand - founded in 1811 as Ban Singha Tha when Chao Racha Wong Singh led his people from Champasak…

One of Thailand's four newest provinces and the only one in this launch rotation with a national-university campus - a mueang under Rama III administered first from Nakhon…

Bangkok’s neighbouring province - MRT Purple/Pink lines & lower rent

Rangsit, Thammasat/AIT universities & the SRT Red Line

Bangkok’s industrial southern neighbour — BTS/MRT Yellow Line & Suvarnabhumi access

Bangkok-adjacent university province ~56km west - the Phra Pathom Chedi (world's tallest stupa), Mahidol at Salaya, Silpakorn's Sanam Chandra campus & the Tha Chin riverside

Bangkok's coastal industrial neighbour at the mouth of the Tha Chin - Mahachai's fishing port and one of Thailand's biggest traditional seafood markets, the Rama II corridor, the…

Southern Thailand’s commercial hub — food, PSU & the Malaysia border

2025 UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy — Old Town, Samila Beach & the mouth of Songkhla Lake

The seat of the old Patani Sultanate and the most distinctly Malay-Muslim province in Thailand - roughly 88 per cent Muslim on the 2014 census, with Pattani Malay (Yawi) widely…

Thailand's SOUTHERNMOST province, one of only two landlocked provinces in the whole south alongside Phatthalung, and the only provincial capital in the country that was drawn as…

Thailand's southeastern corner and the province where the Southern Line railway ENDS - 4,475 km2 about 1,140km south of Bangkok on the Gulf of Thailand and the Malay Peninsula,…

Mainland gateway to the Samui archipelago — ferries, durian country & Khao Sok rainforest

Ancient Tambralinga capital — Wat Phra Mahathat, Nang Talung culture & Walailak University

Thailand's "Gateway to the South" on the Isthmus of Kra, where the peninsula narrows to 44km - a 222km Gulf coastline and 44 islands, Hat Thung Wua Laen and the Prince of…

One of only two landlocked provinces in southern Thailand, on the western shore of the Songkhla Lake lagoon - Thale Noi, Thailand's first non-hunting area (1975) and its first…