Chaiya
Chaiya is a town of 5,500 people on the Malay Peninsula, below the Kra Isthmus, on the Central Gulf Coast of Southern Thailand. It offers an interesting history, temples and handicrafts, and is worth visiting if you're touring Surat Thani and Nakhon Si Thammarat provinces.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 12,200 residents
- Description: subdistrict municipality in Surat Thani province, Thailand
- Also known as: “Amphoe Chaiya”, “Amphoe Moeang Jaiya”, “Ban Bhum Rieng”, “Ban Phummariang”, “Ban Phumrieng”, “Ban Pum Riang”, “Ban Pun Riang”, “Cahaya”, “Chaija”, “Jaiya”, “Muang Chaiya”, “Muang Chaya”, “Phum Riang”, “Pumreang”, “Pumriang”, “Srivijaya”, and “Talat Chaiya”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Chaiya railway station and Wat Phra Borommathat Chaiya.
Chaiya railway station
Railway station
Photo: Marut28, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Chaiya station is a railway station in northern Surat Thani Province, Thailand. It is on the State Railway of Thailand Southern railway line at km597.751 in Talad Chaiya Town, Chaiya District.
Wat Phra Borommathat Chaiya
Place of worship
Photo: Xiengyod, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Wat Phra Borommathat Chaiya Ratchaworawihan is a first-class royal temple in Chaiya, Surat Thani, Thailand.
Chaiya
- Categories: subdistrict municipality, Sukhaphiban, and locality
- Location: Talat Chaiya, Chaiya, Surat Thani Province, Thailand, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
9.3858° or 9° 23′ 9″ northLongitude
99.1965° or 99° 11′ 47″ eastPopulation
12,200Elevation
11 metres (36 feet)Open location code
6MXX95PW+8HOpenStreetMap ID
node 8733083027OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1153783Wikidata ID
Q1059194
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Thai—“Chaiya” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Chaiya”
- French: “Talat Chaiya”
- German: “Talat Chaiya”
- Thai: “ไชยา”
- Thai: “ตลาดไชยา”
- Thai: “เทศบาลตำบลตลาดไชยา”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Chaiya”. Photo: Wikigod, CC BY 3.0.