The Chao Phraya, Mon river towns, and a grid of canals dug across the Rangsit fields, now the northern edge of Bangkok.
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In 1815 the Mon of Sam Khok met King Rama II with lotus flowers, and he renamed their town Pathum Thani, city of lotus.
TL;DR
History
Tap to dig Khlong Rangsit from the Chao Phraya, then tap or drag to dig the numbered canals. Fields beside water turn to rice.
Legends
โคกสามแห่ง
Sam Khok means “three mounds”. One telling says they were kiln mounds for firing jars; another says the old town simply had three ancient mounds. A Dutch map of 1726 calls the place a pottery-making village.
Wikipedia: Sam Khok districtถวายบัว
In the 11th lunar month of 1815 King Rama II came up the river and stayed at a pavilion near today's Wat Pathum Thong. The Mon brought him armfuls of royal lotus, and he renamed the town Pratum Thani.
วิกิพีเดีย: อำเภอสามโคกเสาหงส์
Mon temples raise a tall pole topped with a hamsa, the sacred goose, for Hongsawadi, the city the Mon left. The legend: the Buddha saw two golden hamsa bathing where the sea lay and foretold a great city there.
วิกิพีเดีย: เสาหงส์สองเศรษฐีกับนกปากห่าง
The temple's legend says two rich merchants from Sukhothai, Thao Maha Phrom and Thao Mali, built it. Today its trees hold a colony of Asian openbill storks, nesting from November to June.
วิกิพีเดีย: วัดไผ่ล้อมเมืองรัตนาวดี
Abbot Thong Klueng saw in a vision that the temple ground was a great city, Ratanawadi, eight million years ago. Diggers then struck giant fossil oysters, and in 1995 he built them into chedis.
วิกิพีเดีย: วัดเจดีย์หอยหลวงพ่อเหลือ
Around 1964 thieves cut the heads from the Buddha images in Wat Bot's ubosot. One sandstone image was left whole, and villagers named it Luang Pho Luea, “the one that remains”. It is the guardian image of Pathum Thani.
วิกิพีเดีย: วัดโบสถ์ (สามโคก)พระประธานสี่ทิศ
At Wat Sing people pay respect to four principal Buddha images, one at each direction. Locals call it the first temple of Mueang Sam Khok.
Thairath: Wat SingDrag on the clay to widen or narrow it, then fire it in the kiln.
Notable people
Tap a face.
สมิงเปอ
Mon leader who brought refugees from Mottama to Ban Sam Khok in King Narai's reign.
วิกิพีเดีย: อำเภอสามโคกพญาเจ่ง
Led the Mon migration of 1774 in King Taksin's reign; part of it settled at Sam Khok.
วิกิพีเดีย: อำเภอสามโคกพระองค์เจ้ารังสิตประยูรศักดิ์
Son of King Chulalongkorn and founder of the Ministry of Public Health. The canal, the town and the fields carry his name.
Wikipedia: Rangsit Prayurasakdiพระองค์เจ้าสายสนิทวงศ์
Prince Rangsit's grandfather; King Chulalongkorn put him at the head of the Rangsit canal project.
Wikipedia: Rangsit Canalเออร์วิน มูลเลอร์
Austrian shareholder in the Siam Canals and Irrigation Company, which dug the Rangsit canals. His Thai title was Phra Patibat Ratchaprasong.
วิกิพีเดีย: คลองรังสิตประยูรศักดิ์ไพบูลย์ บุตรขัน
Composer and screenwriter, born at Ban Thong Khung, Sam Khok; named a Burapasilpin in 2015.
Wikipedia: Paiboon Butkhanเอกพจน์ วงศ์นาค
Luk thung singer of the late 1980s, mayor of Khlong Luang since 2021.
Wikipedia: Ekkapot Wongnakศิริมงคล สิงห์มนัสศักดิ์
Boxer from Bueng Yi Tho, Thanyaburi; WBC bantamweight champion in 1997 and super-featherweight in 2002–03.
Wikipedia: Sirimongkol Singmanasakแสน ส.เพลินจิต
Boxer from Prachathipat, Thanyaburi; WBA flyweight champion 1994–96.
Wikipedia: Saen Sor Ploenchitแสงเทียนน้อย ส.รุ่งโรจน์
Muay Thai champion at Lumpinee and Rajadamnern; opened a gym in his native Pathum Thani.
Wikipedia: Sangtiennoi Sor.Rungrojสนธิ บุญยรัตกลิน
Army commander-in-chief who led the coup of 19 September 2006; born in Pathum Thani.
Wikipedia: Sonthi Boonyaratglinอารยะ ศุภฤกษ์
Model, Miss Grand Thailand 2019 and second runner-up at Miss Grand International 2019.
Wikipedia: Arayha SuparurkHistoric sites
วัดสิงห์
Riverside Mon temple; boundary consecrated 1667, the ubosot standing now built in 1757.
วิกิพีเดีย: วัดสิงห์ · Mot Dang pageโบราณสถานเตาโอ่งอ่าง
Old kilns that fired big jars, found by Mon settlers near Wat Sing. Sam Khok is still known for Mon earthenware.
วิกิพีเดีย: ตำบลสามโคก · Mot Dang pageวัดโบสถ์
Home of Luang Pho Luea and a 28-metre statue of Somdet To, built in 2006.
วิกิพีเดีย: วัดโบสถ์ (สามโคก) · Mot Dang pageวัดไผ่ล้อม
74 rai on the river at Ban Ngio; with Wat Ampuwararam a no-hunting area since 2008, for the openbill storks.
Pathum Thani provincial profile, Ministry of Commerce · Mot Dang pageวัดเจดีย์หอย
Founded 1988. Chedis of fossil oyster shell, and a museum that keeps Sam Khok jars.
วิกิพีเดีย: วัดเจดีย์หอยคลองรังสิตประยูรศักดิ์
About 56 km from the Chao Phraya at Ban Mai east to the Nakhon Nayok River, with numbered canals crossing it.
Wikipedia: Rangsit Canalตลาดไท
Thailand's largest market: 542 rai of farm wholesale at km 42 of Phahonyothin Road.
วิกิพีเดีย: ตลาดไทวัดพระธรรมกาย
A Mahanikaya temple founded in 1970 at Khlong Sam; its domed cetiya shows from the air.
วิกิพีเดีย: วัดพระธรรมกาย · Mot Dang pageองค์การพิพิธภัณฑ์วิทยาศาสตร์แห่งชาติ
Set up in 1995 at Technopolis, Khlong Ha.
วิกิพีเดีย: อพวช. · Mot Dang pageสถาบันเทคโนโลยีแห่งเอเชีย
International graduate school founded in 1959 as the SEATO Graduate School of Engineering; its neighbour is Thailand Science Park (2002).
Wikipedia: Asian Institute of Technology · Mot Dang pageดรีมเวิลด์
Outdoor amusement park of about 160 rai at Bueng Yi Tho.
วิกิพีเดีย: ดรีมเวิลด์ · Mot Dang pageTap the sky to send them up a thermal. Tap the field to drop an apple snail.
Culture
ถิ่นบัวหลวง
The provincial motto: ถิ่นบัวหลวง เมืองรวงข้าว เชื้อชาวมอญ นครธรรมะ พระตำหนักรวมใจ สดใสเจ้าพระยา ก้าวหน้าอุตสาหกรรม. Land of the royal lotus, city of rice ears, of Mon descent, city of Dhamma, the palace that unites hearts, the bright Chao Phraya, industry going forward.
Pathum Thani provincial profile, Ministry of Commerceบัวกับรวงข้าว
The provincial seal: a pink royal lotus between two golden rice ears. The provincial flower is the lotus.
Pathum Thani provincial profile, Ministry of Commerceประเพณีรับบัว
A Mon festival at Sam Khok when the lotus blooms in the 11th lunar month. The Fine Arts Department ties the town's name to Rama II receiving lotus at this festival in 1815.
Pathum Thani provincial profile, Ministry of Commerceตักบาตรพระร้อย
Alms to a hundred monks, by boat. Monks paddle along the Chao Phraya and people give from the piers in front of their homes, from the first waning day of the 11th month. A Mon custom here for over a hundred years; in 2025 it ran at Wat Makham, Wat Hong Pathummawat, Wat Bot and Wat Chinwararam.
Naewna, 6 Oct 2025: Tak Bat Phra Roiสงกรานต์ไทย-มอญ
The province's Songkran fair at the old provincial hall brings Mon piphat bands, sand chedis and the Thai-Raman maiden contest; Mon households make khao chae.
Thai Post: Thai-Mon Songkranรำมอญปทุมธานี
Professional Mon dance troupes keep the province's dances; one piece, Mon Rap Sadet, retells the 1815 welcome of the king.
Journal article on Pathum Thani Mon dance, 2021ไทยรามัญ ไทยจีน ไทยมุสลิม
Three communities shape the province: Thai-Raman (Mon), Thai-Chinese and Thai-Muslim. The Mon are densest in Sam Khok.
Thai Post: Thai-Mon Songkranหลักเมืองที่มาทีหลัง
Pathum Thani had no city pillar until 23 August 1978, when one was raised in front of the provincial hall.
Pathum Thani provincial profile, Ministry of Commerce
Food
ก๋วยเตี๋ยวเรือ
Small bowls, a little strong broth. Shops line the Rangsit–Nakhon Nayok road.
Naewna: Pathum Thani foodข้าวแช่มอญ
Rice in cool flower water with seven sides: shrimp-paste balls, sweet fish floss, egg with pickled garlic, sweet mustard greens, young jackfruit, salted crab with green mango, fried noodles. Offered to the spirits and monks.
Naewna: Pathum Thani foodข้าวเกรียบงาปิ้ง
Grilled rice crackers with sesame, made by families whose forebears came from Hongsawadi.
Naewna: Pathum Thani foodกาละแม
Sticky rice, sugar and coconut milk stirred for hours, made for Songkran and merit-making. Pathum Thani has long had a name for it.
Naewna: Pathum Thani foodกุ้งแม่น้ำเผา
Big river prawns off the grill with a sharp dip, eaten by the Chao Phraya.
Naewna: Pathum Thani foodปลาดุกแดดเดียว
Catfish dried one day, then fried or curried. The province farms a lot of catfish.
Naewna: Pathum Thani foodข้าวหอมปทุมธานี
Fragrant rice from the Pathum Thani 1 variety: long slender grain, soft and a little sticky, faint scent.
Department of Intellectual Property: GI registerส้มรังสิต
Tangerines. From 1967 Thung Rangsit grew the most in Thailand; few orchards remain.
วิกิพีเดีย: ส้มเขียวหวานTap for another bowl.
Pictures
From Wikimedia Commons, with each photographer's name and licence. Tap to enlarge.
Sources
Read on 13 October 2026.
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