Chom Thong District, Chiang Mai Province Doi Lo of Chiang Mai Province, Wiang Nong Long, and Ban Hong of Lamphun Province. The important river is the Ping. Doi Inthanon National Park is in this district. Chom Thong is divided into six sub-districts ("tambon"), which are further subdivided into 103 administrative villages ("muban"). There are six sub-district municipalities ("thesaban tambon") in the district: There is one sub-district administrative organization (SAO) in the district: Chom Thong District, Chiang Mai Province Chom Thong (, ) is a district ("amphoe") in the southern part of Chiang Mai Province in northern Thailand. According to the legend of "Wat" Phra That Si
Doi Kham be reduced to ashes. Also, the number of people growing opium poppies was increasing. At the king's command, the royal project was created to provide alternative sources of income for hill tribe villages that formerly relied on opium production and swidden agriculture. The meaning of the words "Doi Kham" comes from two northern Thai words. The word "doi" means 'mountain' or 'hill' while the word "kham" is a shortened word for "thongkham" which means 'gold'. The Royal Project Foundation operates four research stations and thirty-five development centres that work with 295 villages containing 14,109 families. Involved are approximately 85,000 rural