Non Sung district
district in Nakhon Ratchasima province, Thailand
Non Sung (Thai: โนนสูง, pronounced [nōːn sǔːŋ]; Northeastern Thai: โนนสูง, pronounced [nôːn sǔːŋ]) is a district (amphoe) in the central part of Nakhon Ratchasima province, northeastern Thailand.
Etymology
The old name of the district was Klang. The word klang in Thai means 'middle', which refers to the location of the district between the Nok District (now Bua Yai District) and Nai District (Mueang Nakhon Ratchasima District).
When Thai people had to choose a family name at the beginning of the 20th century, many of the locals created names with the word klang.
History
Ban Non Wat has been settled since the middle of the seventeenth century BC. Sing C. Chew, summarising Charles Higham's excavations, gives the late Neolithic there as ending about 1280 BC, the Bronze Age as running to about 400 BC and the Iron Age to about AD 300. Charles Higham, reporting 75 radiocarbon determinations from Ban Non Wat, places the merging of the final Bronze Age into the early Iron Age there in the 5th century BC. He dates the final Iron Age phase of the upper Mun valley to the 4th and 5th centuries AD. Two of the satellite mounds on which Iron Age salt was boiled lie just west of Noen U-Loke, the second excavated site in the district. Grave goods were at their richest between about 1000 and 800 BC; the wealth then declined, and the site regained its earlier standing only in the early Iron Age, about 200 BC. Lead isotopes in slag and cast metal from the village match ores of the Khao Wong Prachan valley in central Thailand. Copper therefore reached this part of the Khorat Plateau from within mainland Southeast Asia by about 1000 BC.
The district's name was changed from Non Wat to Non Sung in 1939.
Geography
Neighbouring districts are (from the north clockwise) Khong, Phimai, Chakkarat, Chaloem Phra Kiat, Mueang Nakhon Ratchasima, Non Thai, and Kham Sakaesaeng.
Ban Non Wat, a village in the district, is an important Bronze Age archaeological site.
“Non Sung district” enters the record as district in Nakhon Ratchasima province, Thailand. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sung, district and Nakhon can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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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 Sep 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q476234. Authority coordinates are 15.180, 102.257. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1280, 1000 and 1939.
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