Amphoe Ban Na

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Ban Na
บ้านนา
Statistics
Province:	Nakhon Nayok
Area:	388.4 km²
Inhabitants:	65,365 (2000)
Pop. density:	168.3 inh./km²
Geocode:	2603
Postal code:	26110
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Ban Na (Thai: บ้านนา) is a district (Amphoe) in the western part of Nakhon Nayok Province, central Thailand.

1 History
2 Geography
3 Administration
4 Sources

[edit] History

In the Ayutthaya era, people in a village of Tambon Pa Kha were elephant catchers (กองโพนช้าง), catching wild elephants to use as war elephants.

Ban Na district was established in 1903, then named Tha Chang district. As the original district office in Tambon Bang O was inconvenient for transportation and prone for flooding, the government moved the office to Suwannason Road in 1965.

While Nakhon Nayok Province was downgraded, the government combined Ban Na district to Saraburi Province. It was a district of Nakhon Nayok again on May 9th, 1946 when the province re-established.

[edit] Geography

Neighboring districts are (from the east clockwise) Mueang Nakhon Nayok and Ongkharak of Nakhon Nayok Province, Nong Suea of Pathum Thani Province, and Wihan Daeng and Kaeng Khoi of Saraburi Province.

The important water resource is Khlong Ban Na.

[edit] Administration

The district is subdivided into 10 communes (tambon), which are further subdivided into 115 villages (muban). Ban Na is a township (thesaban tambon) which covers parts of the tambon Ban Na and Phikun Ok. There are further 10 Tambon administrative organizations (TAO).

1.	Ban Na	บ้านนา
2.	Ban Phrao	บ้านพร้าว
3.	Ban Phrik	บ้านพริก
4.	A Sa	อาษา
5.	Thonglang	ทองหลาง
6.	Bang O	บางอ้อ
7.	Phikun Ok	พิกุลออก
8.	Pa Kha	ป่าขะ
9.	Khao Phoem	เขาเพิ่ม
10.	Si Ka Ang	ศรีกะอาง