Si Racha
ศรีราชา | |
|---|---|
| Si Racha Town Municipality | |
 View of Si Racha town | |
 Seal | |
  Si Racha Location of Si Racha on the Gulf of Thailand  Si Racha Si Racha (Thailand) | |
| Coordinates: 13°10′26″N 100°55′48″E / 13.174°N 100.930°E | |
| Country | Thailand |
| Province | Chonburi |
| District | Si Racha district |
| Government | |
| • Type | Town municipality |
| • Mayor | Chatchai Timkrachang |
| Area | |
| • Town municipality | 4.058 km2 (1.567 sq mi) |
| • Urban | 616.4 km2 (238.0 sq mi) |
| Population (2018)[1] | |
| • Town municipality | 24,127 |
| • Density | 5,900/km2 (15,000/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 327,172 |
| Registered residents only | |
| Time zone | UTC+7 (ICT) |
Si Racha[2] (Thai: ศรีราชา, pronounced [sǐː rāːt͡ɕʰāː]) is a subdistrict and town in Thailand on the east coast of the Gulf of Thailand, about 120 km (75 mi) southeast of Bangkok in Si Racha district, Chonburi province.
The town is the center of the Si Racha district, the ninth-largest urban city area in Thailand. Si Racha is in the industrial Eastern Seaboard zone, along with Pattaya, Laem Chabang, and Chonburi. It is also part of the Pattaya-Chonburi Metropolitan Area, a conurbation with a population of 999,092 people.
Si Racha is known as the provenance of the popular hot sauce, Sriracha, which is named after the town.[3]
- ^ "Population statistics 2018". Department of Provincial Administration.
- ^ Note: An alternative spelling is Sri Racha. Si Racha is the official transcription of the Thai pronunciation attributable to the fact that the consonant cluster /sr/ doesn't occur natively in Thai speech [1] Archived 2011-10-06 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ "The Original Sriracha". Bon Appétit. Condé Nast Publications. 2013-03-04. Retrieved 2014-11-11.