
A camp is not a school
ค่ายมวยไม่ใช่สำนักเรียน
Thai distinguishes *khai muay*, a boxing camp, from *samnak rian*, a school of instruction, and the difference is not size.
527 places in 58 countries, as OpenStreetMap held them on 2026-09-19. Volunteer data, unchecked by this project.
The floor is well below this. The English Wikipedia article records more than 3,800 muay thai gyms overseas in 2020. This map has 414 outside Thailand. What follows is a census of OpenStreetMap, not of the sport.
One query asked OpenStreetMap for the tag the sport has — sport=muay_thai and its spellings. One asked for the name, in every script the sport is written in. The tag missed almost half of what is there.
Thai is written without spaces, so มวย (boxing) matches inside หมวย — Muay, a nickname — and inside มวยผม, a bun of hair. In Latin script muay matches inside Turkish muayene, a medical or vehicle inspection. Matching at word level and requiring a facility tag clears both.
| Reason | Rows |
|---|---|
| not a place | 119 |
| no signal | 85 |
| restaurant, not a gym | 19 |
| fast_food, not a gym | 9 |
| bar, not a gym | 3 |
| craft, not a gym | 2 |
| cafe, not a gym | 2 |
| convenience, not a gym | 1 |
| butcher, not a gym | 1 |
| confectionery, not a gym | 1 |
| pharmacy, not a gym | 1 |

ค่ายมวยไม่ใช่สำนักเรียน
Thai distinguishes *khai muay*, a boxing camp, from *samnak rian*, a school of instruction, and the difference is not size.

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Five questions, and what each answer tells you.
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ทุกยิมบนแผนที่
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The ring behind the Channel 7 studios at Mo Chit, where cards are staged for broadcast and the crowd gets in for nothing.

สนามมวยเวทีลุมพินี
The second of the two ranking stadiums, run by the Royal Thai Army.

เวทีมวยไทย แม่สะเรียง
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