Wat Bot
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Wat Bot is a subdistrict in the Wat Bot District
Amphoe Wat Bot
Wat Bot is a district in the northern part of Phitsanulok Province, northern Thailand.-History:Tambon Wat Bot was separated from Phrom Phiram district and created as a minor district on January 1, 1948. It was upgraded to a full district on June 6, 1956...

 of Phitsanulok Province
Phitsanulok Province
Phitsanulok is a provinces of Thailand, located in the north. Neighboring provinces are Loei, Phetchabun, Phichit, Kamphaeng Phet, Sukhothai, Uttaradit. In the north-east it also has a short border with Xaignabouli of Laos....

, 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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Geography

Wat Bot lies within the Nan Basin, which is part of the Chao Phraya Watershed.

Administration

The subdistrict is subdivided into 10 smaller divisions called (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...

), which roughly correspond to the villages within Wat Bot. There are 6 villages, several of which occupy more than one muban. Wat Bot is administrated by a Tambon administrative organization
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...

(TAO). The muban in Wat Bot are enumerated as follows:
No. English Thai
1-2 Ban Tha Ngam บ้านท่างาม
3-4 & 7 Ban Wat Bot บ้านวัดโบสถ์
5 Ban Khlong Chang (part) บ้านคลองช้าง
6 Ban Noen Makhuet บ้านเนินมะคึด
8 Ban Wang Grang บ้านวังกร่าง
9 Ban Nong Kon บ้านหนองขอน
10 Ban Khlong Chang Mai (New Ban Khlong Chang) บ้านคลองช้างใหม่

Temples

The following is a list of active Buddhist temples in Tambon Wat Bot:
  • วัดท่างาม in Ban Tha Ngam
  • วัดช่างเหล็ก in Ban Wat Bot
  • วัดบัวหลวง in Ban Wat Bot
  • วัดโบสถ์ in Ban Wat Bot
  • วัดคลองช้าง in Ban Khlong Chang
  • วัดบ้านเนินมะคึก in Ban Noen Makhuet
  • วัดหนองขอน in Ban Nong Kon
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