Chiang Rai Province
Chiang Rai is one of Thailand's seventy-six provinces that lies in upper northern Thailand and is Thailand's northernmost province. It is bordered by the Shan State of Myanmar to the north, Bokeo province of Laos to the east, Phayao to the south, Lampang to the southwest, and Chiang Mai to the west.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Chiang Rai and Golden Triangle.
Chiang Rai
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Chiang Rai is the northernmost major city in Thailand, with a population of about 70,000 people. It is located in Mueang Chiang Rai District, Chiang Rai Province.
Golden Triangle
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The Golden Triangle is in Chiang Rai Province, in the far north of Thailand. The name was coined in the 1960s to refer to the opium-cultivating regions of Laos, Myanmar and Thailand but nowadays the northern Thai tourism industry uses it to refer to the tripoint where the three countries meet.
Mae Salong
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Mae Salong, also known as Doi Mae Salong and officially called Santikhiri, is a village in Chiang Rai Province, Northern Thailand.
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Chiang Saen
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Chiang Saen is a district in the northern part of Chiang Rai province, northern Thailand. Chiang Saen is an important entrepôt for Thailand's trade with other countries on the upper part of Mekong River.
Chiang Khong
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Chiang Khong is a riverside border town in Chiang Rai Province, Northern Thailand. It is mainly visited for its ferries across the Mekong to Huay Xai in Laos.
Mae Sai
Mae Sai is the northernmost city of Thailand. It is mainly a stepping stone for visits to Myanmar and has a few attractions of its own. Wat Pha That Doi Wao is an interesting temple complex on a hillside overlooking the border.
Phu Chi Fa
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Phu Chi Fa Forest Park is in Chiang Rai Province of Thailand. In an area of outstanding natural beauty, this peak is a word-of-mouth secret with minimal crowds or touristic tackiness.
Doi Tung
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Doi Tung is a mountain in northern Chiang Rai Province, at the northernmost tip of Thailand. It hosts a non-profit royal project.
Chiang Rai Province
- Type: Province with 1,300,000 residents
- Description: province in northern Thailand
- Also known as: “Chiang Rai”, “Chiang Rai province”, and “Chiengrai”
- Neighbors: Chiang Mai Province
- Categories: province of Thailand and locality
- Location: Northern Thailand, Thailand, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center
19.759° or 19° 45′ 32″ northLongitude of center
99.6735° or 99° 40′ 25″ eastPopulation
1,300,000Elevation
387 metres (1,270 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Chiang Rai Province” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Propinsi Chiang Rai”
- Arabic: “تشيانغ ري”
- Arabic: “شانغ ري”
- Arabic: “محافظة تشيانغ ري”
- Balinese: “Propinsi Chiang Rai”
- Belarusian: “Чыянграй (правінцыя)”
- Belarusian: “Чыянграй”
- Bengali: “চিয়াং রাই”
- Bishnupriya: “চাংৱাত চিয়াং রাই”
- Bulgarian: “Чианг Рай”
- Burmese: “ချင်းရိုင်ခရိုင်”
- Catalan: “Chiang Rai”
- Cebuano: “Changwat Chiang Rai (lalawigan sa Tailandya)”
- Cebuano: “Changwat Chiang Rai”
- Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای چیانگ ڕای”
- Chinese: “Chiang Rai Hú”
- Chinese: “清莱府”
- Chinese: “清萊府”
- Czech: “Čiang Rai”
- Danish: “Chiang Rai”
- Dutch: “Changwat Chiang Rai”
- Dutch: “Chiang Rai”
- Estonian: “Chiang Rai provints”
- Finnish: “Chiang Rai provinssi”
- Finnish: “Chiang Rai”
- French: “Chiang Rai”
- French: “province de Chiang Rai”
- French: “Province de Chiang Rai”
- Galician: “Provincia Chiang Rai”
- Galician: “Provincia de Chiang Rai”
- Georgian: “ჩიანგრაის პროვინცია”
- German: “Chiang Rai”
- German: “TH-57”
- Greek: “Τσιανγκ Ράι”
- Gujarati: “ચિઆંગ રાય”
- Hebrew: “מחוז צ’יאנג ראי”
- Hebrew: “צ’יאנג ראי”
- Hindi: “चिअंग राई प्रान्त”
- Hindi: “च्यांग राय”
- Hungarian: “Csiangraj tartomány”
- Indonesian: “Chiang Rai”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Chiang Rai”
- Italian: “Chiang Rai”
- Italian: “provincia di Chiang Rai”
- Italian: “Provincia di Chiang Rai”
- Japanese: “チェンラーイ県”
- Japanese: “チエンラーイ県”
- Japanese: “チェンライ県”
- Kannada: “ಚಿಯಾಂಗ್ ರೈ”
- Khmer: “ខេត្តឈៀងរ៉ាយ”
- Korean: “치앙라이주”
- Lao: “ຈັງຫວັດຊຽງຮາຍ”
- Latvian: “Čiangraja”
- Lithuanian: “Čian Rajaus provincija”
- Malagasy: “Faritanin’i Chiang Rai”
- Malay: “Chiang Rai”
- Malay: “Wilayah Chiang Rai”
- Malayalam: “ചിയാങ് റായ് പ്രവിശ്യ”
- Marathi: “चंग राय”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Chiang Rai Hū”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Chiang Rai Hú”
- Northern Frisian: “Chiang Rai”
- Northern Frisian: “Prowins Chiang Rai”
- Northern Luri: “آستون چیانگ ری”
- Northern Thai: “ᨩ᩠ᨿᨦᩁᩣ᩠ᨿ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chiang Rai”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chiang Rai-fylket”
- Norwegian: “Chiang Rai”
- Ossetian: “Чианграй (провинци)”
- Ossetian: “Чианграй”
- Persian: “استان چیانگ ری”
- Polish: “Chiang Rai”
- Polish: “Prowincja Chiang Rai”
- Portuguese: “Chiang Rai”
- Romanian: “Provincia Chiang Rai”
- Russian: “Чианграй”
- Scots: “Chiang Rai Province”
- Shan: “ၸႄႈမိူင်းၵဵင်းႁၢႆး”
- Sinhala: “චියාන්ග් රායි”
- Slovenian: “Chiang Rai”
- Spanish: “Chiang Rai”
- Spanish: “Provincia Chiang Rai”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Chiang Rai”
- Swedish: “Chiang Rai”
- Tagalog: “Lalawigan ng Chiang Rai”
- Tajik: “Vilojati Ciang Rai”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Чианг Раи”
- Tamil: “சியாங் ராய் மாகாணம்”
- Tamil: “சியாங் ராய்”
- Telugu: “చియాంగ్ రాయి”
- Thai: “จ.เชียงราย”
- Thai: “จังหวัดเชียงราย”
- Thai: “เชียงราย”
- Tibetan: “ཆེང་རཱེ་ཞིང་ཆེན།”
- Turkish: “Chiang Rai”
- Ukrainian: “Провінція Чіанг-Рай”
- Ukrainian: “Чіанграй”
- Urdu: “صوبہ چیانگ رائی”
- Vietnamese: “Chiang Rai”
- Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Chiang Rai”
- Waray (Philippines): “Chiang Rai”
- Western Panjabi: “صوبہ چیانگ رائی”
- Wu Chinese: “清莱府”
- Yue Chinese: “清萊”
- Yue Chinese: “清萊府”
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