CHECKINGOUT
udon thani
150
FAHTHAI
65
minutes
450km
US$550m
38,000m
2
THB80
1890s
7th
47km
400,000
46,700
TEXT: YIXUAN FAN;
ILLUSTRATION: MELISSA MACKIE AT ILLUSTRATIONROOM.COM.AU
Facts & stats on Bangkok
Airways’ newest destination
The
final call:
Udon Thani
Udon Thani’s ranking in the
list of Thailand’s largest
cities by population
Total donations collected by famed monk Luangta
Maha Bua during his late-90s tenure at Udon
Thani’s Wat Pa Baan That Temple
The approximate
distance from Bangkok
to Udon Thani
The decade of
Udon Thani’s
founding by Prince
Prajak Silapakom
The distance from
Udon Thani to
Thailand’s premier
Bronze Age excavation
at Ban Chiang
The number of Vietnam
War refugees in Udon
Thani at the height of
the conflict
The fee,
per person,
for a
“limousine
service” (read:
minibus transfer)
from the airport
The duration of the
flight from Bangkok
to Udon Thani on
Bangkok Airways
The population
of the city of
Udon Thani
The size of Udtown,
Thailand’s largest
open-air shopping
centre, which opened
in Udon Thani in 2009
