| Si Phang Nga National Park | |
|---|---|
IUCN category II (national park) | |
  Map of Thailand | |
| Location | Phang Nga Province, Thailand |
| Nearest city | Takua Pa |
| Coordinates | 9°08′53″N98°28′19″E / 9.148°N 98.472°E Coordinates: 9°08′53″N98°28′19″E / 9.148°N 98.472°E [1] |
| Area | 246.08 km2 (95.01 sq mi) |
| Established | 16 Apr 1988 |
| Governing body | Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation |
| Department of National Parks | |
Si Phang Nga National Park (Thai : ศรีพังงา) is in Phang Nga Province in southern Thailand, covering the eastern parts of the districts Khura Buri and Takua Pa.
Thai, Central Thai or Ayutthaya or Siamese, is the sole official and national language of Thailand and the first language of the Central Thai people and vast majority of Thai of Chinese origin. It is a member of the Tai group of the Kra–Dai language family. Over half of Thai vocabulary is derived from or borrowed from Pali, Sanskrit, Mon and Old Khmer. It is a tonal and analytic language.
Phang Nga is one of the southern provinces (changwat) of Thailand, on the shore of the Andaman Sea to the west and Phang Nga Bay to the south. Neighboring provinces are Ranong, Surat Thani, and Krabi. To the south is the Phuket Province, connected by the Sarasin Bridge.
Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and formerly known as Siam, is a country at the center of the Southeast Asian Indochinese peninsula composed of 76 provinces. At 513,120 km2 (198,120 sq mi) and over 68 million people, Thailand is the world's 50th largest country by total area and the 21st-most-populous country. The capital and largest city is Bangkok, a special administrative area. Thailand is bordered to the north by Myanmar and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the west by the Andaman Sea and the southern extremity of Myanmar. Its maritime boundaries include Vietnam in the Gulf of Thailand to the southeast, and Indonesia and India on the Andaman Sea to the southwest. Although nominally a constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy, the most recent coup in 2014 established a de facto military dictatorship.
The landscape of the park is dominated by rugged mountains covered with dipterocarp forests, similar to the Khao Sok adjoining it to the east.
Dipterocarpus is a genus of flowering plants and the type genus of family Dipterocarpaceae.
The establishment of the park was announced in the Royal Gazette, Issue 105, Chapter 60 of 16 April 1988.
