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Roads of Chiang Maiᨩ᩠ᨿᨦᩉ᩠ᨾᩲ᩵ EN ไทย

mapThe first national map, 1939

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The Royal Thai Survey Department, in Thai, and the country has a new name on it.

This exceptional 1939 Thai-language Royal Thai Survey Department map of Mainland Southeast Asia is the first national map of Thailand and the first to use the name 'Thailand' to describe the former SiRoyal Thai Survey Department (1939) · Public domain

What it is

A Royal Thai Survey Department map of mainland Southeast Asia, described as the first national map of Thailand and the first to carry the new name. Siam became Thailand in 1939, and the sheet is the state drawing itself as it wanted to be read.

Where each claim comes from
FieldTierSourceNote
defaultcitedWikimedia Commons — the map and photograph files, each with its own licence on its file page — Wikimedia Commons
text_thinferencewritten in Thai by this project, in the northern register where it fits; not machine-translated

Sources

cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there

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