Trang
Province
Trang or Tab Tiang Town is located some 828 kms. from Bangkok. It is another
big city of the South, being the communication center to Nakhon Si Thammarat.
Rubber plants have been firstly grown in this province by Phraya Rasdanupradit
Mahissara Phakdi who got the seedling stocks from Malaysia. It had been
a sea port of Thailand's west coast on the seashore of the Indian Ocean
in the old days. It occupies an area of 4,917 square kilometers bordering
on Nakhon Si Thammarat to the north, Satun and the Indian Ocean to the
south, Phattalung to the east and the Indian Ocean and Krabi to the west.
It is administratively divided into 7 Amphoes and one King Amphoe : Muang,
Huai Yot, Kantang, Palian, Sikao, Yan Ta Khao, Wang Wiset and King Amphoe
Na Yong.