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Isan (Thai: อิสาณ) is a subdistricts of Mueang Buriram District, in Buriram Province, Thailand. About 409 km north-east of Bangkok. The whole area of the subdistrict is covered by Buriram City Municipality (เทศบาลนครบุรีรัมย์).
Buriram province (Thai: จังหวัดบุรีรัมย์, RTGS: Changwat Buri Ram, pronounced [tɕāŋ.wàt bū.rīː.rām]) is one of Thailand's seventy-seven Provinces (changwat) and lies in lower northeastern Thailand, also called Isan.
Buriram (Thai: บุรีรัมย์, RTGS: Buri Ram, pronounced [bū.rīː rām]; Northern Khmer: มฺืงแปะ) is a city municipality (thesaban nakhon) in Thailand, capital of Buriram Province, about 300 km (190 mi) northeast of Bangkok. incorporating Nai Mueang and Isan Subdistricts and parts Samet Subdistricts of Mueang Buriram District.
Isan is known for producing a large number of muay Thai boxers. Many of the boxers from Srisaket, Buriram and Surin are of ethnically Suai (Kuy), Lao, or Khmer. [30] Isan's most famous sportsman is tennis player Paradorn Srichaphan, whose family is from Khon Kaen. The Mall Nakhon Ratchasima
The district is divided into 19 sub-districts (), which are further subdivided into 320 villages ().The City (thesaban nakhon) Buriram covers the whole tambon Nai Mueang, tambon Isan and parts tambon Samet.
It is located in Buriram Province in the Isan region of Thailand, and was built at a time when Khmer social-political influences were significant in Srisaket. It was built of sandstone and laterite between the 10th and 13th centuries. It was a Hindu shrine dedicated to Shiva, and symbolises Mount Kailash, his heavenly dwelling.
Isan (Buriram, Surin, Sisaket) Eastern (Trat, Chanthaburi) ... some Northern Khmers living in the Isan region have demanded more rights and oppose Thaification of the ...
The minor district (king amphoe) Ban Dan was created on 15 July 1996 by splitting four tambons from Mueang Buriram district. [1] On 15 May 2007, all 81 minor districts were upgraded to full districts. [2] With publication in the Royal Gazette on 24 August the upgrade became official. [3]