Wang Chin district
Wang Chin district
อำเภอวังชิ้น | |
|---|---|
 Mae Koeng Luang Waterfall, Mae Koeng, Wiang Kosai National Park | |
 District location in Phrae province | |
| Coordinates: 17°54′0″N 99°36′12″E / 17.90000°N 99.60333°E | |
| Country | Thailand |
| Province | Phrae |
| Seat | Wang Chin |
| Area | |
• Total | 1,216.96 km2 (469.87 sq mi) |
| Population (2005) | |
• Total | 47,720 |
| • Density | 39.2/km2 (102/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+7 (ICT) |
| Postal code | 54160 |
| Geocode | 5407 |
Wang Chin (Thai: อำเภอวังชิ้น, pronounced [wāŋ tɕʰín]; Northern Thai: ᩅᩢ᩠ᨦᨩᩥ᩠᩶ᨶ, pronounced [wāŋ tɕín]) is a district (amphoe) in the southern part of Phrae province, northern Thailand.
History
[edit]An inscribed stone found at Wat Bang Sanuk in the district in the early 1940s carries the earliest dated evidence of settlement in the area. Numbered C.107 and written in Thai after three lines of Pali, it records that a ruler titled khun had 11,108 images of the Buddha stamped in tin and clay, gave a relic, and built a laterite cetiya that took a month from the forming of the blocks to the stucco. Griswold and Prasert na Nagara dated it to 1339 when they published it in 1979; Hans Penth re-dated it in 1996 to Thursday 28 March 1219, a reading David K. Wyatt follows.[1]: 24–28 The inscription's two place names, Müang Trōk Salōp and Chæ Ngun, are not identified with any modern town; Wyatt places them somewhere in the upper Yom valley between Si Satchanalai and Phrae, and reads them as a paired polity on the model of Sukhothai and Si Satchanalai rather than as an old and a new name for one place.[1]: 28, 44–45 Chusak Satienpattanodom places Müeang Trōk Salōp in the modern district, and describes it as a frontier town of Si Satchanalai that stood outside Sukhothai's control at times.[2]: 78
Originally the area of the district was part of Mueang Lampang district. In 1930 it was reassigned to Long district, Phrae Province. On 1 March 1939 the minor district (king amphoe) Wang Chin was established as a subordinate of Long District,[3] which was upgraded to a full district in 1958.[4]
Geography
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Neighboring districts are (from the north clockwise): Long and Den Chai of Phrae Province; Si Satchanalai of Sukhothai province; Thoen, Sop Prap, and Mae Tha of Lampang province.
The Phi Pan Nam Mountains dominate the landscape of the district. Wiang Kosai National Park is in it. There are columnar basalt formations in Mon Hin Kong (Thai: ม่อนหินกอง) in an area in the mountains near Na Phun, in this district.[5]
Administration
[edit]The district is divided into seven sub-districts (tambons), which are further subdivided into 77 villages (mubans). Wang Chin is a township (thesaban tambon) and covers parts of tambon Wang Chin. There are a further seven tambon administrative organizations (TAO).
| No. | Name | Thai name | Villages | Pop. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Wang Chin | วังชิ้น | 11 | 9,166 | |
| 2. | Saroi | สรอย | 11 | 6,565 | |
| 3. | Mae Pak | แม่ป้าก | 10 | 5,318 | |
| 4. | Na Phun | นาพูน | 11 | 7,713 | |
| 5. | Mae Phung | แม่พุง | 16 | 8,625 | |
| 6. | Pa Sak | ป่าสัก | 10 | 5,654 | |
| 7. | Mae Koeng | แม่เกิ๋ง | 8 | 4,679 |
References
[edit]- 1 2 David K. Wyatt (2001). "Relics, Oaths and Politics in Thirteenth-Century Siam" (PDF). Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. 32 (1): 3–65. JSTOR 20072298. Archived from the original on 26 January 2026. Retrieved 10 September 2025.
- ↑ Chusak Satienpattanodom (2000). พัฒนาการของเมืองศรีสัชนาลัย ตั้งแต่กลางพุทธศตวรรษที่ 17 ถึงกลางพุทธศตวรรษที่ 22 [The rise and decline of Si Satchanalai from the twelfth to sixteenth centuries] (PDF) (MA thesis) (in Thai). Bangkok: Silpakorn University. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 December 2024.
- ↑ ประกาศกระทรวงมหาดไทย เรื่อง ตั้งกิ่งอำเภอวังขึ้น ขึ้นอำเภอลอง จังหวัดแพร่ (PDF). Royal Gazette (in Thai). 55 (ง): 3880. February 20, 1939. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 16, 2012.
- ↑ พระราชกฤษฎีกาจัดตั้งอำเภอกระสัง อำเภอกระนวน อำเภอบางกอกใหญ่ อำเภอขุนหาร อำเภอพนา อำเภอปากช่อง อำเภอวังเหนือ อำเภอวังชิ้น อำเภอแม่ทา อำเภอหนองหมู อำเภอสระแก้ว อำเภออมก๋อย อำเภอบางซ้าย อำเภอทับสะแก อำเภอบุณฑริก อำเภอลานสะกา อำเภอจอมบึง อำเภอท่ายาง อำเภอสามเงา อำเภอฟากท่า อำเภอบ้านเขว้า อำเภอชานุมาน อำเภอแม่พริก อำเภอท่าสองยาง อำเภอสะเมิง อำเภอหนองแขม อำเภอพระแสง พ.ศ. ๒๕๐๑ (PDF). Royal Gazette (in Thai). 75 (55 ก): 321–327. July 22, 1958. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 6, 2012.
- ↑ ม่อนเสาหินพิศวง Wonderful Mountain Of Colunnar
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