Place:Chumphon, Thailand

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NameChumphon
Alt namesChumphonsource: Wikipedia
Jumpornsource: Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) p 265
TypeProvince
Coordinates10.333°N 98.833°E
Located inThailand
See alsoSouthern,removed name of Region
Contained Places
Inhabited place
Ban Pak Nam
Chumphon
Lang Suan
Pathiu
Sawi
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Chumphon is a southern Province (changwat) of Thailand on the Gulf of Thailand. Neighbouring provinces are Prachuap Khiri Khan, Surat Thani, and Ranong. To the west it borders the Burmese province of Tanintharyi.

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The southern part of the province was originally a separate province named Lang Suan. It was incorporated into Chumphon in 1932.

In November 1989 Typhoon Gay hit the province hard: 529 people were killed, 160,000 became homeless, of farm land was destroyed. Gay is the only tropical storm on record which reached Thailand with typhoon wind strength.

Chumphon province is one of several clandestine way stations on the trafficking trail of Burmese and Rohingyas from nearby Burma (Myanmar) being moved south. Chumphon borders the Burmese province of Tanintharyi.

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