Mueang Satun District 2.9

Mueang Satun is the capital district of Satun Province, southern Thailand.HistoryDue to many problems in Syburi (Kedah) state, King Rama III ordered the division of Syburi into 4 separate mueang - Kubang Pasu, Syburi, Perlis and Satun in 1833. He set Mueang Satun under Nakhon Si Thammarat. In 1897, King Chulalongkorn (Rama V) reunified the 4 cities under the newly established Monthon (มณฑล) Syburi. When the United Kingdom and Siam (Thailand) signed the Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909, only Satun remained with Siam, which was then set under Monthon Phuket (มณฑลภูเก็ต) in 1910, until 1933.Originally Satun Province was subdivided into 2 districts and one minor district. Mambang (มำบัง) was one of these two original districts, which was renamed to Mueang Satun in 1938, when all capital districts were named according to the corresponding province name.GeographyNeighboring districts are Tha Phae, Khuan Don of Satun Province, the state Perlis of Malaysia and the Andaman Sea. The Tarutao National Marine Park containing the Tarutao and Adang archipelagos belong to the district. Also some part of the boundary area to Malaysia is protected in the Thale Ban National Park. Satun's privileged geographic location permits it to host Thailand's landing points for optical fiber submarine communications cable Segment FEA of the 28,000-kilometer-long FLAG ; and for the 49,000-kilometer-long SEA-ME-WE 3, which links regions of Southeast Asia to regions of the Middle East and Western Europe.