Sankhaburi () is a district (amphoe) in the southern part of Chai Nat province, central Thailand.
History The name of Sankhaburi or Sawankhaburi has the same meaning as the name of the nearby province, Nakhon Sawan, is "Heavenly City". It was originally known as Phraek Si Racha (the term "Phraek" is a Mon language meaning "water intersection").
The history of Sankhaburi began at about 2,500 years ago. At that time, Sankhaburi depends on Suphannaphum Kingdom (present-day Suphanburi) in this area to Nakhon Sawan as an important trade junction.
Walailak Songsiri and place the seat of the polity Chinese records of about 1200 call Chen Li Fu in the Phraek Si Racha and Dong Khon area, that is in this district. Songsiri qualifies the placement herself. Of the small towns running south from Phraek Si Racha to the Suphan and Tha Wa rivers, this is the one that does not continue from the Dvaravati period, and excavation has not settled whether its occupation begins under the Southern Song or under the Yuan. She accounts for this by proposing that the seat moved here from the smaller inland waterways. David K. Wyatt looked for Chên Li Fu elsewhere. Setting O. W. Wolters's finding that the polity held both a port and an inland capital beside the reconstruction of the ancient shoreline by Phōngsi Wanasin and Thiwa Supcanya, and beside Wolters's note that early Chinese navigators rarely called on the eastern coast of the Bay of Bangkok, he suggested a state centred on Ratchaburi, Nakhon Chai Si or Suphan Buri.
Geography Sabkhaburi is located on the Noi river banks, a branch of the Chao Phraya river.
Neighbouring districts are (from the west clockwise) Hankha, Mueang Chai Nat, and Sapphaya of Chai Nat Province; In Buri and Bang Rachan of Sing Buri province; and Doem Bang Nang Buat of Suphan Buri province.
Administration The district is divided into eight sub-districts (tambons), which are further subdivided into 92 villages (mubans). Phraek Si Racha is a township (thesaban tambon) which covers parts of tambon Phraek Si Racha. There are a further eight tambon administrative organizations (TAO). No. Name Thai Villages Pop.1.Phraek Si Rachaแพรกศรีราชา1616,4672.Thiang Thaeเที่ยงแท้106,2833.Huai Krotห้วยกรด99,0124.Pho Ngamโพงาม137,6925.Bang Khutบางขุด127,3166.Dong Khonดงคอน1612,1217.Don Kamดอนกำ82,9268.Huai Krot Phatthanaห้วยกรดพัฒนา85,516
References
External links amphoe.com (Thai)