Historic building - Temples - Museum - Top sights
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Bangkok is a huge city with several district articles containing sightseeing, restaurant, nightlife and accommodation listings.
Bangkok (Thai: Krung Thep) is the capital of Thailand and by far its largest city with an estimated population of over 11 million.
Bangkok is one of Asia’s most cosmopolitan cities. Created as the Thai capital in 1782 by the first monarch of the present Chakri dynasty, Bangkok is a national treasure house and Thailand’s spiritual, cultural, political, commercial, educational and diplomatic centre
Bangkok is a huge and modern city humming with nightlife and fervour. Administratively, it is split up into 50 khet (districts), which are further split into 154 khwaeng, but these are more often used in official business and for addresses. Visitors will find the conceptual division below of the main areas more useful for getting around.
bangkok district map
Bangkok districts
Wherever you stay in bangkok have some Historic building, Temples, museum to see in your disctrict (take look in each district pages under) but you need to see some essentials touristic attraction in our Top sights pages.
Rattanakosin
Between the river and Sukhumvit lies the densely packed "Old Bangkok", home to Bangkok's best-known sights, such as the Grand Palace and Wat Pho. Whether your stay in Bangkok is for a few hours, a few days, or more, absolutely any itenarary should include the "old city" of Rattanakosin.
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Thonburi & Riverside
he quieter west bank of the Chao Phraya River, with Wat Arun, many small canals and some offbeat attractions.
Slowly winding its way through the city, the mighty Chao Phraya drains a river basin the side of britain. Until the begining of the 20th century, Bangkok was devoid of asphalt roads ans commerce was condcuted by boat on this great brown swathe and it's network of interconnecting klongs (canals)
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Chinatown
Chinatown or Yaowarat as it is know locally, is a prawling neon-lit enclave of tiny lanes, fabulous food, dramatic chinese shrines and wiry old men sitting on plastic stools staring through thick-rimmed glasses.
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The long Sukhumvit Road, which changes its name to Ploenchit Road and Rama I Road going west, is Bangkok's modern commercial core, full of glitzy malls and hotels. The Skytrain intersection at Siam Square is the closest thing Bangkok has to a centre.
Sukhumvit is a futurist thriller - a flawed, frenetic, yet often compelling urban street scape...
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The Sathorn/Silom area personifies Bangkok's split personality. The white collar, bustling crux of bangkok business world by day...
To the south of Sukhumvit, the area around Silom Road and Sathorn Road is Thailand's sober financial center by day, but Bangkok's primary party district by night when quarters like the infamous Patpong come alive.
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The Pratunam and Siam square districts are famed as a shopper's paradise....
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The district north of Sukhumvit centered around Ratchadaphisek Road (part of which is called Asoke) and reaching from Phetchaburi Road to Lat Phrao. This area has really opened up recently as the new metro line follows Ratchadaphisek Road.
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Phahonyothin
The area around Phahonyothin Road and Viphavadi Rangsit Road is best known for the Chatuchak Weekend Market and Don Muang Airport.
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Around bangkok
Around Bangkok are the provinces of Pathum Thani to the north, Nonthaburi to the northwest, Chachoengsao to the east, Samut Sakhon to the southwest, and Samut Prakan to the southeast. Here you can see Floating market, Ancien city, Crocodile farm...
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Rattanakosin - Riverside - Chinatown - Sukhumvit - Silom & Sathorn - Pathumwan - Ratchadaphisek - Phahonyothin - Around Bangkok