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18 unusual facts about Chiang Mai


1995 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship

The 1995 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship was the 8th Asian Championship, which took place from September 25 to October 2, 1995 in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Administrative divisions of Thailand

Nonthaburi and Chiang Mai are the only two municipalities that have an additional tier of administration, as they group their chumchon in khwaeng.

Asian Geographic

ASIAN Geographic PASSPORT organises travel photography workshops to places such as Kuching, Malaysia and Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Ban Chang

Ban Chang, Chiang Mai, a tambon (subdistrict) of Mae Taeng District, in Chiang Mai Province, Thailand.

Dara Academy

In 1888, the school was named "Phra Racha Chaya Girls' School" after Phra Racha Chaya (พระราชชายา) Chao Dara Rasmi (ดารารัศมี), a princess from the Thipjakrathiwong dynasty of Chiang Mai.

Doi Mae Tho

The mountain rises in the SW of Wiang Pa Pao District, Chiang Rai Province, near the point where the limit of this province meets with Chiang Mai and Lampang Provinces.

Its summit is located less than 8 km to the SE of Route 118 between Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai.

Heather Jackson

She graduated college in 2006 with a degree in political science and East Asian studies and moved to Chiang Mai, Thailand, in 2007 to teach English at a private school.

Internet in Thailand

Broadband Internet is readily available in major cities and towns, including Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Pattaya, and Phuket, but is still to be sought after in smaller villages and in the countryside.

Marina Shainova

At the 2007 World Championships in Chiang Mai, Thailand she won the silver medal in the Women's 58 kg with 237 kg in total.

Michael Vatikiotis

He studied Southeast Asian history and languages and his doctoral research was on the Northern Thai city of Chiang Mai.

Nugan Hand Bank

The Nugan Hand Chiang Mai branch participated in the covert sale of an electronic spy ship to Iran and weapons shipments to Angola.

Oman national cricket team

In January 2009, Oman participated in the ACC Cup, Challenge tournament in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Panthays

Bassein and Moulmein must also have attracted some Panthay settlement, the latter port being a terminus of the overland caravan trade from Yunnan in its own right, via the northern Thai trade route through Kengtung, Chiang Mai and Mae Sariang.

Robertsite

It is also reported from the Khoa Rang Kai phosphate deposit, Chiang Mai, Thailand in a limestone guano deposit.

Sao Seng Suk

He later became chairman and commander in chief of the Shan State Progress Party, Co-founded Shan State Organization, Co-founded Shan Democratic Union and elected the 1st President of Shan State Constitutional Drafting Commission before becoming involved in the Ethnic Nationalities Council.Prominent Shan leader Sao Seng Suk, or Khun Kyar Nu, died at about 4pm at a hospital in Chiang Mai, Thailand on Monday 13 August 2007 aged 72 following a lengthy battle with lung disease.

Short mackerel

In this manner, this sea fish could reach many places in interior Thailand, like the Chiang Mai area in the far north and even remote places in Isan, where it is much appreciated.

Stephania crebra

It is one of 15 Stephania found only in northern Thailand, specifically in the province of Chiang Mai.


Chiang Mai University

Its main campus lies between Chiang Mai downtown and Doi Suthep in Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai Province.

Hoya kerrii

A specimen was collected by Arthur Francis George Kerr 1910 in or 1911 in the Doi Suthep mountains west of Chiang Mai (Northern Thailand) at an altitude of 390 m above sea level.

Hoya siamica

Kerr discovered the plant in the jungle on the mountain Doi Suthep which is near the city Chiang Mai, at an altitude of around 1500-1650 meters above sea level.

Kan Air

The route network consists of destinations such as Chiang Mai to Pai, Mae Hong Son, Nan, Phitsanulok and Khon Kaen.

Khun Chang Khun Phaen

The campaign against Chiang Mai in the latter part of Khun Chang Khun Phaen seems to be modeled on events which appear in the Ayutthaya and Lanchang chronicles for the 1560s.

When the kings of Ayutthaya and Chiang Mai quarrel over a beautiful daughter of the King of Vientiane, Phlai Ngam volunteers to lead an army to Chiang Mai, and successfully petitions for Khun Phaen's release.

Moreno Boer

Eight years after competing in his last Olympics, Boer qualified for his second Italian team, as a 30-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by finishing twenty-fourth and obtaining a place from the 2007 World Weightlifting Championships in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Nan, Thailand

By the end of the -14th century Nan was one of the nine northern Thai-Lao principalities that comprised Lan Na Thai (now Lanna) and the city state flourished throughout the 15th century under the name Chiang Klang (Middle City), a reference to its position roughly midway between Chiang Mai (New City) and Chiang Thong (Golden City, which is today's Luang Prabang).

Prostitution in Thailand

The organisation seeks to empower sex workers and has been operating since 1985, with offices in Patpong (Bangkok), Chiang Mai, Mae Sai and Patong Beach (Phuket).

Rail transport in Bangkok

Trains travelling on the Northern Line to Chiang Mai, the Northeastern Line to Nong Khai and Ubon Ratchathani, and the Eastern Line to Aranyaprathet originate at the station, and so do some trains of the Southern Line, which terminates at Su-ngai Kolok and has a connection to Malaysia (the other Southern terminus is Thonburi).

Rajamangala University of Technology Lanna

RMUTL consists of 9 universities and RMUTL has six campuses in the north of Thailand: Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Lampang, Tak, Phitsanuloke, and Nan.

Rhacophorus rhodopus

Subsequently, frogs that matched the description of R. rhodopus were also found at Chiang Mai and in the Doi Chiang Dao mountains (Thailand), Buon Luoi (Vietnam), and Arunachal Pradesh (India).

Tonic Rays

From 2006 to 2008 the band performed regularly in Chiang Mai, Pai, Bangkok, Pattaya, Ko Lanta, and Ko Phi Phi.