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Bangkok Metropolitan Region
Urban agglomeration in Thailand / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not to be confused with Bangkok Metropolis, which is a reference to Bangkok's city limits.
The Bangkok Metropolitan Region (BMR) (Thai: กรุงเทพมหานครและปริมณฑล; RTGS: krung thep maha nakhon lae parimonthon; lit. 'Bangkok and environs'), may refer to a government-defined "political definition" of the urban region surrounding the metropolis of Bangkok, or the built-up area, i.e., urban agglomeration of Bangkok, Thailand, which varies in size and shape, and gets filled in as development expands.
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Bangkok Metropolitan Region กรุงเทพมหานครและปริมณฑล | |
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![]() True-color image of Bangkok and its surrounding provinces | |
![]() A map of the Bangkok Metropolitan Region. The red are city-level municipalities and Bangkok's 50 districts. The orange is the town-level municipalities. The yellow are township-level municipalities. | |
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Region | Central Thailand |
Provinces | Bangkok Nonthaburi Nakhon Pathom Pathum Thani Samut Prakan Samut Sakhon |
Area | |
• Metro | 7,700 km2 (3,000 sq mi) |
Population | |
• Metro | 17,400,000 |
• Metro density | 2,300/km2 (5,900/sq mi) |
GDP | |
• Metro | baht 8.096 trillion (US$ 231 billion) (2022) |
Time zone | UTC+7 (ICT) |
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The political definition is defined as the metropolis and the five adjacent provinces of Nakhon Pathom, Pathum Thani, Nonthaburi, Samut Prakan, and Samut Sakhon.