Cheng Tale Sub-District

Phuket is located in the southwest and is also the largest island in Thailand.It's the only one island that has a status to be a province. It is about. 867 km south from Bangkok. It is surrounded by water contain with much marine lives and the town, Phuket, is known as the Sino-Portuguese architecture buildings. The populations about 2.5 hundred thousands people.The main business is tourism as it is surrounded by many beautiful beaches;i.e. Patong Beach,Kata and Karon Beaches.The total area is about 570 square metres. Phuket ,is well-known as the Pearl of the south Andaman Sea ,has quite long history for over 500 years , which is very wealthy of its beautiful places and tourists attraction. It is a very attractive island for sightseeing, with lovely seashores and forested hillsides .In each year the Pearl of Andaman brings much income to the country. Phuket remains the wealthiest province in Thailand and ranks the second in popularity places only to Pattaya.

History

Dating back to A.D. 1025 indicate that the island's name derives from the Tamil Manikram, or crystal mountain.For the most of the history,Phuket was known as Junk Ceylon,. The name is thought to have its roots in Patolemy's Geography written by the Alexandrian geographer in the Third Century A.D .He mentioned that in making a trip from Souwannapum to the Malay Peninsula it was neccesary to pass the cape of Jang Si Lang. Phuket was the gateway on the route between India and China where seafarers stopped to shelter.