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{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" align="right" ! colspan="2" align=center bgcolor="#DEFFAD"|Statistics |- ||Capital:||Buriram |- ||Area:||valign=top|10,322.9 km²
Ranked 17th |- ||Inhabitants:||valign=top|1,493,359 (2000)
Ranked 7th |- ||Pop. density:||valign=top|145 inh./km²
Ranked 28th |- ||ISO 3166-2:||TH-31 |- !colspan="2" align=center bgcolor="#DEFFAD"|Map |- |colspan="2" align=center|
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Buriram (Thai บุรีรัมย์) is one of the north-eastern provinces (changwat) of Thailand. Neighboring provinces are (from south clockwise) Srakaeo, Nakhon Ratchasima, Khon Kaen, Maha Sarakham and Surin. To the south-east it borders Cambodia. The name Buriram means City of happiness.
Geography
Buriram is located at the southern end of the Khorat Plateau, with several extinct volcanoes around the province.
History
Buriram was a settlement from the Khmer empire, and many ruins from that time are still visible there. The biggest of them on a extinct volcano is protected in the Phanom Rung historical park.
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The provincial seal shows the Phanom Rung sandstone castle, a Hindu shrine of the Shivaite sect. The monument was in use from the 9th till the 12th century when the Khmer Empire was overthrown from Ayutthaya. It is now a historic park. The provincial flower is the Yellow Cotton Tree (Cochlospermum regium), and the provincial tree is the Pink Shower (Cassia grandis). |
Administrative divisions
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