DOLA municipality upgrades list

On December 15 the Department of Local Administration (DOLA) added the 2009 municipality statistics on their website. I noticed it a few days late since they kept the old page with extension htm and placed the new data on a new page with extension php.

Thus as of December 15 2009, there are the following numbers of local administrative units. [1.doc]

• Provincial administrative organizations (PAO, องค์การบริหารส่วนจังหวัด): 75
• Municipalities (Thesaban, เทศบาล): 2006
  
  • City (Thesaban Nakhon, เทศบาลนคร): 23
  • Town (Thesaban Mueang, เทศบาลเมือง): 142
  • Subdistrict Municipality (Thesaban Tambon, เทศบาลตำบล): 1841
• Subdistrict administrative organization (TAO, องค์การบริหารส่วนตำบล): 5770
• Special administrative units (องค์กรปกครองท้องถิ่นรูปแบบพิเศษ): 2 (Bangkok and Pattaya)

A total of 7853 units.

The numbers for the subdistrict municipalities and the TAO differ quite a lot from those derived by the board meeting transcripts. I will give a more detailed analysis of these tomorrow by checking through the next two files from the website which list all the municipality upgrades.