Khlong Hat District

Amphoe Khlong Hat ( Thai: อำเภอ คลอง หาด ) is a district ( Amphoe - administrative district ) in the south of the province of Sa Kaeo. The Sa Kaeo province is located in the eastern region of Thailand at the border to Cambodia.

Geography

Amphoe Khlong Hat is by following Amphoe limited (as seen from the south clockwise from ): Amphoe Soi Dao in Chanthaburi Province and the Amphoe Wang Sombun, Wang Nam Yen, Watthana Nakhon and Aranyaprathet in Sa Kaeo province. To the east the Battambang province of Cambodia lies.

History

The area of ​​today's Khlong Hat was once a forest area with many trees Mahat ( Thai: มะหาด, also: " Lacuch Trees" - Artocarpus lakoocha ), stood on the banks of the channels ( Khlongs ). When settlers settled here, they called her village of Ban Khlong Mahat. Later the name was shortened to Ban Khlong Hat. In 1984 came the refugees of the civil war in Cambodia to be in Khlong Hat settle. There separated on 15 January 1985, the Thai government, the four Tambon Khlong Hat, Thai Udom, Sap Makrut and Sai Diao from Amphoe Watthana Nakhon order to set up a sub-district ( King Amphoe ) of it. The sub-district on 21 May 1990 on the Amphoe Khlong Hat promoted.

Management

Amphoe Khlong Hat is divided into seven communities ( tambon), which further into 69 villages ( Muban ) are divided.

There is to manage seven " Tambon Administrative Organizations" (TAO, องค์การ บริหาร ส่วน ตำบล - administrative organizations) in the district.