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Trat province (Thai: ตราด, pronounced), also spelt Trad province, is one of Thailand's seventy-six provinces (changwat), and is located in the region of eastern Thailand. It borders Chanthaburi province to the northwest, and Cambodia and its provinces of Pailin , Battamabang , Pursat , and Koh Kong to its north, northeast and east.
Cambodia, [a] officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, [b] is a country in Mainland Southeast Asia. It borders Thailand to the northwest, Laos to the north, Vietnam to the east, and has a coastline along the Gulf of Thailand on the southwest. It spans an area of 181,035 square kilometres (69,898 square miles), and has a population of about 17 ...
Ko Chang (Thai: เกาะช้าง, pronounced [kɔ̀ʔ t͡ɕʰáːŋ]) is an amphoe (district) in Trat province, Thailand. It is on the Gulf of Thailand's eastern seaboard, 300 km (190 mi) from Bangkok, near the border with Cambodia. [1] The island Ko Chang occupies most of the district's land area, along with several smaller islands.
Koh Sdach (Khmer: កោះស្តេច, romanized: Kaôh Sdéch; lit. 'King's Island') is a Cambodian island located in the Gulf of Thailand, around 1.5 km (1 mi) off the coast of Botum Sakor national park, in the Kiri Sakor district in Koh Kong province, Cambodia. It belongs to a small archipelago of 12 islands, all in relative proximity ...
Tonlé Sap 16,000 km 2 (6,178 sq mi) Topography of Cambodia. Cambodia is a country in mainland Southeast Asia. It borders Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, the Gulf of Thailand and covers a total area of approximately 181,035 km 2 (69,898 sq mi). The country is situated in its entirety inside the tropical Indomalayan realm [ 1 ] and the Indochina Time ...
Detailed map of Thailand. Thailand is in the middle of mainland Southeast Asia. It has a total size of 513,120 km 2 (198,120 sq mi) which is the 50th largest in the world. The land border is 4,863 km (3,022 mi) long with Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos and Malaysia. The nation's axial position influenced many aspects of Thailand's society and culture. [1]
The Cambodian–Thai border dispute (Khmer–Thai border dispute) began in June 2008 as part of a century-long dispute between the Kingdom of Cambodia and the Kingdom of Thailand involving the area surrounding the 11th-century Preah Vihear Temple, in the Dângrêk Mountains between Choam Khsant District, Preah Vihear Province of northern Cambodia and the Kantharalak District, Sisaket Province ...
In an effort to stop Khmer Rouge infiltration from Thailand, Cambodia built a large fortified fence along the border in the second half of the 1980s. [8] [9] Since the advent of peace in Cambodia in the early 1990s relations with Thailand have once again soured over the Preah Vihear issue, as well as, to a lesser extent, Ko Kut island. [3]