Local administration numbers October 2012

The Department of Local Administration (DOLA) has published the numbers of the various local administrative entities at the end of the fiscal year, i.e. October 1 2012. This thus includes all the municipal changes in the past fiscal year - the central administrative subdivisions are not part of this release, as these are under the responsibility of another department - and except a few new Muban there were no changes in those numbers anyway.

• PAO (องค์การบริหารส่วนจังหวัด): 76
• Municipalities (เทศบาล, Thesaban): 2266
  • City municipalities (เทศบาลนคร, Thesaban Nakhon): 29
  • Town municipalities (เทศบาลเมือง, Thesaban Mueang): 167
  • Subdistrict municipalities (เทศบาลตำบล, Thesaban Tambon): 2070
• TAO (องค์การบริหารส่วนตำบล): 5509
• Special administrative areas (องค์กรปกครองส่วนท้องถิ่นรูปแบบพิเศษ): 2

Comparing to the numbers of last year (though the list was from DOPA then), the municipal numbers have changed - 2 new cities, 12 more towns, and 170 more subdistrict municipalities, and 184 TAO less. Though a few of the TAO were directly upgraded to towns, the two new cities were towns before, so there were a few more than 184 municipal changes this year. I am now waiting for the list of all the changes to be updated, I am not sure if the board meeting transcripts are complete or an already approved changed was not executed.