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Trat

Coordinates: 12°14′30″N 102°30′45″E / 12.24167°N 102.51250°E / 12.24167; 102.51250
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This article is about the town Trat. For other uses, see Trat (disambiguation).
Trat
ตราด
Town
Trat Airport
Trat Airport
Trat is located in Thailand
Trat
Trat
Coordinates: 12°14′30″N 102°30′45″E / 12.24167°N 102.51250°E / 12.24167; 102.51250
Country Thailand
ProvinceTrat Province
DistrictMueang Trat District
Time zoneUTC+7 (ICT)
Calling code(+66) 39

Trat (Template:Lang-th, pronounced [tràːt]) is a town in Thailand, capital of Trat Province and the Mueang Trat District. The town is in the east of Thailand, at the mouth of the Trat River, near the border with Cambodia.

History

Trat was already an important seaport in the Kingdom of Ayutthaya.

Under King Chulalongkorn (Rama V), Trat and Chanthaburi province were briefly occupied by the French. In a complicated exchange of territory, Trat (and Chanthaburi) was returned on March 23, 1906, but Thailand relinquished the area around Siem Reap and Sisophon in present-day Cambodia.

When the Vietnamese pushed the Khmer Rouge out of Cambodia in 1985, Pol Pot fled to Thailand and made his headquarters in a plantation villa near Trat. It was built for him by the Thai Army and nicknamed "Office 87".[1]

Geography

Trat province is located in the eastern part of the central region of Thailand, in the extreme southeast of Thailand near the border with Cambodia. It is just over 300 km from the capital Bangkok.

Economy

Trat, favored by its proximity to the Cambodian border, is of some importance as a trading city. The area around Trat is rich in gemstone mines, whose yield (rubies and sapphires) is processed right in the town. Fruit growing is also important: durian, rambutan and mangosteen are the main products.

Touristically, Trat is more interesting as a starting point to the large islands of Ko Chang and Ko Mak.

The city of Trat has 10,207 inhabitants. (As of 2012)[2]

References

  1. ^ Shenon, Philip (6 February 1994). "Pol Pot, the Mass Murderer Who Is Still Alive and Well". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 July 2017.
  2. ^ "Department of Provincial Administration".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  • Trat travel guide from Wikivoyage
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