Amphoe Panare
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Panare is a district (Amphoe
Amphoe
An amphoe is the second level administrative subdivision of Thailand. Usually translated as district, amphoe make up the provinces, and are analogous to a county seat...

) in Pattani Province
Pattani Province
Pattani is one of the southern provinces of Thailand. Neighboring provinces are Narathiwat, Yala and Songkhla.-Geography:...

, southern Thailand
Thailand
Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...

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History

The name Panare comes from Pattani Malay language. Pata means Sea Beach, Tare means Otter Trawl
Bottom trawling
Bottom trawling is trawling along the sea floor. It is also often referred to as "dragging".The scientific community divides bottom trawling into benthic trawling and demersal trawling...

. Thus Pata Tare means a beach for drying otter trawls in the air. With time the pronounce changed to Panare.

Geography

Neighboring districts are (from the south clockwise) Sai Buri, Mayo
Amphoe Mayo
-History:The area of Mayo was originally part of Yaring district. In 1900 the district was established, then named Rako . When in the following year the district office in tambon Mayo was opened the district was renamed after its central tambon....

 and Yaring
Amphoe Yaring
Yaring is a district of Pattani Province, southern Thailand. The Thai name is a corruption of the Malay Jaring .-Geography:Neighboring districts are Panare, Mayo, Yarang and Mueang Pattani...

. To the north and east is the Gulf of Thailand
Gulf of Thailand
The Gulf of Thailand , also known in to Malays as Teluk Siam literally meant Gulf of Siam, is a shallow arm of the South China Sea.-Geography:...

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Administration

The district is subdivided into 10 subdistricts (tambon
Tambon
Tambon is a local government unit in Thailand. Below district and province , they form the third administrative subdivision level. As of the 2009 there are 7255 tambon, not including the 169 khwaeng of Bangkok, which are set at the same administrative level, thus every district contains 8-10 tambon...

), which are further subdivided into 52 villages (muban
Muban
Muban is the lowest administrative subdivision of Thailand. Usually translated as village, they are the subdivision of tambon. As of 2008, there are 74944 administrative villages in Thailand. As of the 1990 census, the average village consisted of 144 households or 746 persons.A muban does not...

). Panare is a subdistrict municipality (thesaban tambon) which covers most of tambon Panare. There are further 10 Tambon administrative organizations (TAO).
No. Name Thai Villages Inh.
Population
A population is all the organisms that both belong to the same group or species and live in the same geographical area. The area that is used to define a sexual population is such that inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with individuals...

1. Panare ปะนาเระ 5 9,290
2. Tha Kham ท่าข้าม 4 2,093
3. Ban Nok บ้านนอก 6 4,079
4. Don ดอน 6 3,601
5. Khuan ควน 5 2,437
6. Tha Nam ท่าน้ำ 5 4,249
7. Khok Krabue คอกกระบือ 4 1,866
8. Pho Ming พ่อมิ่ง 4 2,844
9. Ban Klang บ้านกลาง 9 7,146
10. Ban Nam Bo บ้านน้ำบ่อ 4 5,526

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