Monday, September 29, 2008

Number of administrative entities 1893-1899

When browsing through the scans I have done of Tej Bunnags book "The provincial administration of Siam", I noticed that Appendix 5 gives the numbers of the subdivisions within several of the circles (monthon).

MonthonDistrictsSubdistrictsVillages
Ayutthaya254794,447
Burapha1380800
Chumphon151521,515
Nakhon Chaisi112541,571
Nakhon Ratchasima7-378
Nakhon Sawan205061,845
Nakhon Sithammarat172322,669
Phitsanulok198254,006
Prachinburi1686390
Ratburi205061,845
Sum1632,76920,495

Kedah, Phetchabun, Phuket, and Udon are missing, the author wasn't able to find them in his source. He suspects that this was due to the fact that Kedah resisted the thesaphiban reform, while the other three were just created a short time ago and thus the new system wasn't established completely yet and thus did not report the numbers to Bangkok.

The mean number of each subdivision is somewhat different from today - 17.0 subdistricts per district is more than double the current value of 8.2; the villages per subdistrict has changed less strikingly from 7.4 to 10.3.

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