Na Tan district
district in Ubon Ratchathani province, Thailand
Na Tan (Thai: นาตาล, pronounced [nāː tāːn]) is a district (amphoe) in the northeastern part of Ubon Ratchathani province, northeastern Thailand.
History
Na Tan area was separated from Khemarat district to create a minor district (king amphoe) on 30 April 1994.
On 15 May 2007, all 81 minor districts were upgraded to full districts. On 24 August the upgrade became official.
6th Thai-Lao Friendship Bridge
In 2023 and 2024, Laos and Thailand began talks to improve connections between the two countries. In February 2024, they began talks to upgrade the checkpoint connecting Ban Paek Saeng, Na Tan with Ban Pak Saphan, Salavan province, Laos into a permanent gateway. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the checkpoint's trade volume was more than ฿2.8 billion.
The checkpoint upgrade will coincide with the construction of the Sixth Thai-Lao Friendship Bridge, which will stretch from Na Tan district in Thailand to Lakhonepheng district in Laos. It will connect National Highway No. 2112 in Thailand with Highway No.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Na Tan district” as district in Ubon Ratchathani province, Thailand. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as district in Ubon Ratchathani province, Thailand. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q180037. Authority coordinates are 15.905, 105.277. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1994, 2007, 2023 and 2024.
A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
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This entry incorporates text from “Na Tan district” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.