{
 "id": "wiang-kum-kam",
 "type": "place",
 "names": {
  "name": "Wiang Kum Kam",
  "th": "เวียงกุมกาม",
  "rtgs": "Wiang Kum Kam",
  "said": "The capital before the capital, drowned by the river, found under the fields.",
  "said_th": "เวียงก่อนเวียง จมน้ำปิง เจอใต้ท้องนา"
 },
 "region": [
  "ring2"
 ],
 "text": {
  "what": "Mangrai's first city on this plain, founded 1286 on the Ping's bank south of the present city and abandoned after floods; the ruins were dug out of the fields of Saraphi from 1984. The middle ring road has an underpass named for it.",
  "story": "*Inference —* it is the argument for the moat square's location in one ruin. A city on the bank drowned; a city a kilometre from the bank is still here."
 },
 "text_th": {
  "what": "เมืองแรกของพญามังรายบนที่ราบนี้ สร้างปี 1829 บนฝั่งแม่ปิงทางใต้ของเมืองปัจจุบัน ทิ้งร้างหลังน้ำท่วม ซากถูกขุดจากท้องนาสารภีตั้งแต่ปี 2527 ถนนวงแหวนรอบกลางมีทางลอดชื่อตามมัน",
  "story": "*อนุมาน —* มันคือข้อโต้แย้งเรื่องตำแหน่งของเวียงสี่เหลี่ยมในซากเดียว เมืองบนฝั่งจม เมืองห่างฝั่งหนึ่งกิโลยังอยู่"
 },
 "geo": {
  "lat": 18.75,
  "lon": 99.005,
  "precision": "town"
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "ping-river",
   "as": "What drowned it.",
   "rel": "place"
  },
  {
   "to": "mangrai",
   "as": "Who built it.",
   "rel": "person"
  },
  {
   "to": "ring-2",
   "as": "The underpass named for it is on this ring.",
   "rel": "ring"
  }
 ],
 "tags": [
  "heritage",
  "flood"
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:wp-wiang-kum-kam"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:wp-wiang-kum-kam"
  },
  "fields": {
   "text_th": {
    "tier": "inference",
    "note": "written in Thai by this project, in the northern register where it fits; not machine-translated"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "medium",
 "schema": 1,
 "updated": "2026-09-21",
 "images": [
  {
   "file": "wiang-kum-kam/wiang-kum-kam-wiang-kum-kam-174064203.jpg",
   "source": "commons",
   "title": "File:Wiang Kum Kam (174064203).jpeg",
   "url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/Wiang_Kum_Kam_%28174064203%29.jpeg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=original",
   "page_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AWiang_Kum_Kam_%28174064203%29.jpeg",
   "license": "CC BY 3.0",
   "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/",
   "author": "Mathew Schwartz",
   "credit": "Imported from 500px (archived version) by the Archive Team. (detail page)",
   "alt": "500px provided description: Chiangmai Thailand, one of the many sites part of the Wiang Kum Kam. This site was excavated and its original form. Really amazing to see something so old and well preserve",
   "date": "17 September 2016, 17:19:49 (UTC)",
   "primary": true,
   "sha256": "ef422cadb42358860a0f9f9a02d81400761e717dfb523f26343b3c13da060ce5"
  },
  {
   "file": "wiang-kum-kam/wiang-kum-kam-wiang-kum-kam-1.jpg",
   "source": "commons",
   "title": "File:Wiang Kum Kam 1.jpg",
   "url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/Wiang_Kum_Kam_1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=original",
   "page_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AWiang_Kum_Kam_1.jpg",
   "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
   "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
   "author": "Mathew Schwartz",
   "credit": "Own work",
   "alt": "Wiang Kum Kam 1.jpg",
   "date": "2016-09-17 13:25:33",
   "primary": false,
   "sha256": "e280e442ae886ba2e1f52c35c302f7621125c16b8e5642bf8c0982afe612daad"
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 ],
 "kin_in": [
  {
   "from": "ring-2",
   "type": "ring",
   "name": "Ring 2, the 700 Years Road",
   "as": "An underpass is named for it."
  },
  {
   "from": "the-day-the-river-came-up-tha-phae",
   "type": "story",
   "name": "The day the river came up Tha Phae",
   "as": "The precedent."
  },
  {
   "from": "mangrai",
   "type": "person",
   "name": "Mangrai",
   "as": "His first try."
  }
 ]
}