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mapThe War Office sheet, 1946

แผ่นของ War Office 2489

London's map of Siam the year after the war, 85 cm across.

Title: 'Siam'. Map of Siam (Thailand) in 1946. Creator: War Office, London (United Kingdom). Call Number MAP G8025 1946. Dimensions: 1 map : col. ; 85 x 52 cm. on sheet 102 x 61 cm. 1st edition.War Office in London, United Kingdom, 1946 · Public domain

What it is

A coloured map of Siam by the War Office in London, the year after the war and two years before the moat roads. Wartime and immediately post-war mapping of this country is unusually good because armies needed it, and it is the reason a 1945 city sheet at 1:5,000 exists at all.

Connected to

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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