Bannang Sata is the principal town of the Bannang Sata district

Amphoe Bannang Sata

Bannang Sata is a district in the southern part of Yala Province, southern Thailand.-History:The name Bannang Sata is actually the Thai corruption of Benang Setar , its original Malay name...

, in Yala Province

Yala Province

Yala is the southernmost province of Thailand. Neighboring provinces are Songkhla, Pattani and Narathiwat. Yala is the only land-locked province in the south of Thailand...

 of 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...

. The town is subdistrict municipality (thesaban tambon) and covers parts of the subdistrict (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...

) Bannang Sata. As of 2007 it has a population of 2,856.

The municipality was created as a sanitary district (sukhaphiban

Sukhaphiban

Sukhaphiban were an administrative division of Thailand.Sanitary districts were the first sub-autonomous entities established in Thailand. A first such district was created in Bangkok by a royal decreee of King Chulalongkorn in 1897...

) in 1956. Like all sanitary district, it was upgraded to a subdistrict municipality in 1999.