Pattaya

Pattaya
พัทยา
Special local administrative area
Pattaya City
เมืองพัทยา
Skyline along of Pattaya Beach
Nong Nooch Botanical Garden
The Sanctuary of Truth
Art of Paradise
Walking Street
Pattaya
Location in Bay of Bangkok
Pattaya
Location in Thailand
Coordinates: 12°56′09″N 100°53′20″E / 12.9357°N 100.889°E / 12.9357; 100.889
CountryThailand
ProvinceChonburi
DistrictBang Lamung
City status29 Nov 1978
Government
 • TypeSpecial local administrative area
 • BodyPattaya City
 • MayorPoramet Ngampichet
since 22 May 2022[1] (indp.)
Area
 • Total
53.4 km2 (20.6 sq mi)
 • Urban
727 km2 (281 sq mi)
 • Rank8th
Population
 (January 2025)[2]
 • Total
116,417
(Registered residents)
 • Rank10th
 • Density2,180/km2 (5,600/sq mi)
 • Urban
328,961
 • Metro999,092
Time zoneUTC+7 (ICT)
Postcode
20150
Calling code038
ISO 3166-2TH-S
Websitewww.pattaya.go.th

Pattaya[b] is a city in Eastern Thailand, the second-largest city in Chonburi province and the eighth-largest city in Thailand. It is on the east coast of the Gulf of Thailand, about 100 kilometres (62 mi) southeast of Bangkok, and has a population of 328,961 as of 2021.[3]

Pattaya City (Thai: เมืองพัทยา, RTGSMueang Phatthaya, pronounced [mɯ̄a̯ŋ pʰát.tʰā.jāː]) is a special local government organization area within Bang Lamung district and has a population of 119,532. It covers the tambons of Nong Prue and Na Klua and parts of Huai Yai and Nong Pla Lai. Pattaya City has grown into all adjacent sub-districts and accounts for the largest population percentage in the district, making it de facto a part of the "Pattaya-Bang Lamung-Jomtien" area, otherwise known as "Greater Pattaya".

The city is in the industrial Eastern seaboard zone, along with Si Racha, Laem Chabang, and Chonburi. Pattaya is at the center of the Pattaya-Chonburi Metropolitan Area (a conurbation in Chonburi Province with a population of 1,000,000), which forms the third largest metropolitan area in Thailand.

  1. ^ "กกต.ประกาศรับรอง "ปรเมศวร์ งามพิเชษฐ์"เป็นนายกเมืองพัทยา". 13 June 2022. Archived from the original on 19 October 2022. Retrieved 19 October 2022.
  2. ^ "รายงานสถิติจำนวนประชากรและบ้านประจำปี พ.ศ.2562" [Statistics, population and house statistics for the year 2019]. Registration Office Department of the Interior, Ministry of the Interior (in Thai). 31 December 2019. Archived from the original on 14 June 2019. Retrieved 10 March 2020, archiving is not necessary because DOPA provides data from 1993 to future years.
  3. ^ "Department of Provincial Administration พ.ศ.2565" (in Thai). Retrieved 2 October 2023.


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