Nong Bua Lamphu province
Nong Bua Lamphu (, , ) is one of Thailand's seventy-seven provinces ("changwat") lies in upper northeastern Thailand also called Isan. Neighbouring provinces are (from north clockwise) Udon Thani, Khon Kaen, and Loei. Geography. Nong Bua Lam Phu is in the heart of the Khorat Plateau. The total forest area is or 11.7 percent of provincial area. Paleontological remains. "Chalawan", an extinct genus of crocodylin, is known solely from its holotype collected in the early-1980s from a road-cut near the town of Nong Bua Lam Phu, in the upper part of the Phu Kradung Formation. This  single specimen is the most well preserved vertebrate fossil that has been found from the formation. It contains a single species, "Chalawan thailandicus". History. Nong Bua Lam Phu is famous as the spot where in the 16th century Naresuan, the king-liberator of Siam, came to learn of the outcome of a war between the Lao and Burmese in the area of Vientiane. This place was long a Lao stronghold. During the existence of the Lao Kingdom of Lan Xang (1354–1707), Nong Bua Lam Phu was traditionally given to the crown prince (Uparat) to rule. It was the birthplace of  the principal wife of Chao Siribunyasan (), the last independent king of Vientiane. In 1827, Chao Anou of Vientiane designated Phagna Narin to be governor at the onset of the Laotian Rebellion of 1826–1828. Under Thai rule, the province originally consisted of five amphoe (districts) in Udon Thani province. In 1993 Udon was decentralized and a separate province of Nong Bua Lam Phu was created. It is one of the newest provinces of Thailand, together with Amnat Charoen province, Sa Kaeo province, and Bueng Kan province. Economy. Nong Bua Lamphu is the poorest province in Thailand according to the "Bangkok Post . Incomes, as of 2018, average 41,000 baht annually. The province is largely agricultural. Sticky rice has long been the area's traditional crop, although there has been a shift to sugarcane due to low rice prices and sugarcane's resistance to flooding. In 2016, more than one third of the available agricultural land in Nong Bua Lamphu was used for sugarcane plantations. According to the provincial Office of Agricultural Economics, sugarcane cultivation is expected to rise. In contrast, the area devoted to rice farming shrunk by 73 percent from 2000 to 2016. Administrative divisions. Provincial government. The province is divided 	Nong Bua Lamphu province
17483791	into six districts (amphoe"). The districts are further divided into 59 subdistricts ("tambon") and 636 villages ("muban"). Local government. As of 26 November 2019 there are: one Nong Bua Lamphu Provincial Administration Organisation ("") and 24 municipal ("thesaban") areas in the province. Nong Bua Lamphu has town ("thesaban mueang") status. Further 23 subdistrict municipalities ("thesaban tambon"). The non-municipal areas are administered by 43 Subdistrict Administrative Organisations - SAO ("ongkan borihan suan tambon"). Human achievement index 2017. Since 2003, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Thailand has tracked progress on human development at the sub-national level using the Human Achievement  Index (HAI), a composite index covering eight key areas of human development. The National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB) has taken over this task since 2017.