page_title: Muban
section_title: Administration
hierarchical_section_title: Muban / Administration
caption_attribution_description: ที่ทำการผู้ใหญ่บ้าน หมู่ 7 ต.บ้านโพ อ. บางปะอิน จ.พระนครศรีอยุธยา
context_page_description: Muban is the lowest administrative sub-division of Thailand. Usually translated as 'village' and sometimes as 'hamlet', they are a subdivision of a tambon. As of 2008, there were 74,944 administrative mubans in Thailand. As of the 1990 census, the average village consisted of 144 households or 746 persons.
context_section_description: Each such mu or group is led by a headman, usually called village headman or village chief (Thai: ผู้ใหญ่บ้าน; RTGS: phu yai ban), who is elected by the population of the village and then appointed by the Ministry of the Interior. The headman has two assistants, one for governmental affairs and one for security affairs. There also may be a village committee with elected members from the village, serving as an advisory body of a village. Originally the village headman, once elected, was in office until reaching retirement age. They now only serve for a five-year term but can then apply for reelection. The same is true for the office of kamnan (กำนัน) or 'sub-district headman' at the next higher tambon (sub-district) level.
  Communities (ชุมชน) or neighborhoods that are part of a town or city (thesaban mueang and thesaban nakhon) have no equivalent to village headmen, but may be organized into community associations having advisory committees.
caption: A village chief (phu yai ban) office in tambon Ban Po, Bang Pa-in District, Ayutthaya Province
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