Pattaya-Chonburi Metropolitan Area
Pattaya-Chonburi Metropolitan Area (เขตนครพัทยา-ชลบุรี) is the conurbanation in the Chonburi Province. It comprise of Pattaya City, 7 Town municipalities, and 20 Township municipalities in 5 districts with 934,299 registerd inhabitants as of 2006 (but the real population are over 1,500,000).
Pattaya-Chonburi Metropolitan Area is the one of highly urbanised area in Thailand. It 's famous area for industrial and tourist. The metropolitan area comprise the Port of Laem Chabang, Pattaya Beach and other famous places.
Administrative Division
District name |
Area |
Population (2006) |
Density |
|---|---|---|---|
Mueange Chonburi |
238.87 |
276,425 |
1,157.22 |
Bang Lamung |
727.00 |
223,243 |
307.07 |
Si Racha |
616.40 |
205,306 |
333.07 |
Sattahip |
348.12 |
134,438 |
386.18 |
Ban Bueng |
646.30 |
94,887 |
146.82 |
Total |
2,576.69 |
934,299 |
362.59 |
Economy
Pattaya City, Laem Chabang, Si Racha, Bang Saen, and Chonburi are the center of Economic in the metropolitan area. The major sector of economics are the tourist and industrial.
Transportation
The metropolitan area served by many modes of transportaion.
The railway line from Bangkok is split from main line at Chachoengsao Junction in Chachoengsao Province and run passing through the metropolitan and terminus at the portal town of Sattahip. There are two junction in this line, Si Racha Junction is located in Si Racha for a branch line to Laem Chabang Seaport, and Khao Chi Chan Junction which is for Mab Ta Phut branch line that served an industrial estate town of Mab Ta Phut, Rayong Province.
Highways in the metropolitan area are well developed. There are many routes of highway such as Highway No.3 (Sukhumvit Road and the New Bangkok-Chonburi Motorway (Highway no.7).
Pattaya served by 2 international airport. It located about 150 km from Suvarnabhumi Airport and 45 km from U-Tapao International Airport that offered services to other Cities in Thailand and the world.