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Khorat Plateau
ที่ราบสูงโคราช
Natural region
Landscape of the Khorat Plateau
Landscape of the Khorat Plateau
A map of the Khorat Plateau region
A map of the Khorat Plateau region
CountryThailand
Elevation
200 m (700 ft)

The Khorat Plateau (Thai: ที่ราบสูงโคราช) is a plateau in the northeastern Thai region of Isan. The plateau forms a natural region, named after the short form of Nakhon Ratchasima, a historical barrier controlling access to and from the area.

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Khorat Plateau

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The Khorat Plateau (Thai: ที่ราบสูงโคราช) is a plateau in the northeastern Thai region of Isan. The plateau forms a natural region, named after the short...

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Nakhon Ratchasima province

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Mueang Nakhon Ratchasima district, also called Khorat. The province is at the west end of the Khorat Plateau, separated from the Chao Phraya river valley...

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Lan Xang

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the 1350s Ayutthaya expanded over western Khmer territories and the Khorat Plateau. In 1352 Angkor was attacked by Ayutthaya in a failed attempt to take...

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History of Laos

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across the Khorat Plateau (now part of modern Thailand) and conflicting with the Kingdom of Luang Prabang for control of the Xieng Khouang Plateau (on the...

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Northern Khorat Plateau moist deciduous forests

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The Northern Khorat Plateau moist deciduous forests ecoregion (WWF ID: IM0138) covers a small area on the border between northeastern Thailand and Laos...

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Isan

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in northeastern Thailand. Isan is Thailand's largest region, on the Khorat Plateau, bordered by the Mekong River (along the Laos–Thailand border) to the...

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Kingdom of Vientiane

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1826, Anouvong sent an army of 10,000 men toward the cities of the Khorat plateau. He took Nakhon Ratchasima in January but the Siamese quickly organized...

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Lao people

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extended its sphere of influence to all of modern-day Laos and the Khorat Plateau of Thailand as well as parts of Sipsongbanna in southern China, Sip...

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Geography of Thailand

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the marginal uplands and the highlands of the northern region or the Khorat Plateau to the northeast. By the 11th century AD, a number of loosely connected...

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Oxisol

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the early Tertiary, on an extensive plain later uplifted to form the Khorat Plateau. Characterized by a bright red color, these relict soils occur on uplands...

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Anouvong

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begun implementing the census and forced tattooing policies in the Khorat Plateau. Anouvong's retinue and one of his sons were impressed into corvee projects...

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Phetchabun Mountains

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separates the broad Chao Phraya river basin of central Thailand from the Khorat Plateau of Isan. The northward-flowing Loei River, a tributary of the Mekong...

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Culture of Laos

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extended to the Sipsong Panna (China), Sipsong Chau Tai (Vietnam), and Khorat Plateau (today the northeast of Thailand) where the river was used as a transportation...

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Thailand

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Vientiane was destroyed and a large number of Lao people were relocated to Khorat Plateau as a result.: 285–6  Bangkok also waged several wars with Vietnam, where...

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Ethnic groups in Thailand

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the peoples of the Khorat plateau, once part of Lan Xang empire, were formally integrated into Siam, incorporating more Lao, Khorat, and Phu Thai, but...

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Geology of Thailand

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have numerous sandstones related to the plateau. With calc-alkaline volcanic rock at its base, the Khorat Plateau is diachronous giving the appearance that...

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Kuy people

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Southeast Asia. The native lands of the Kuy range from the southern Khorat Plateau in northeast Thailand east to the banks of the Mekong River in southern...

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Yasothon province

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(rhodic ferralsols) formed in the Triassic before the uplift of the Khorat Plateau, are relict soils made fertile by field termites through bioturbation...

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List of ecoregions in Thailand

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moist deciduous forests Northern Indochina subtropical forests Northern Khorat Plateau moist deciduous forests Peninsular Malaysian montane rain forests Peninsular...

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Phu Phan Mountains

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hills dividing the Khorat Plateau of the Isan region of Thailand into two basins: the northern Sakhon Nakhon Basin, and the southern Khorat Basin. The silhouette...

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Khon Kaen

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lies 450 kilometres (280 mi) northeast of Bangkok. Khon Kaen is on the Khorat Plateau, elevation 187 m, and is the center of the mid-northeastern provincial...

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Khon Kaen province

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was incorporated as a city in 1797. Khon Kaen occupies part of the Khorat Plateau. The Chi and Phong Rivers flow through the province. The total forest...

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Ethnic groups in Cambodia

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lower Mekong River in a contiguous arc that runs from the southern Khorat Plateau where modern-day Thailand, Laos and Cambodia meet in the northeast,...

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Lao sausage

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border along the Annamite Range with Vietnam to the western border Khorat Plateau (Northeastern Thailand (Isan)) and its sister kingdom of Lan Na There...

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Cambodia

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was worked by about 500 BC, with supporting evidence coming from the Khorat Plateau, in what later is Thailand. In Cambodia, some Iron Age settlements were...

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Mekong

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highest of all the lower Mekong countries over the past 60 years. On the Khorat Plateau, which includes the Mun and Chi tributary systems, forest cover was...

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Vientiane

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have traced it origin to Wèndān, a supposedly kingdom located in the Khorat Plateau, mentioned by a ninth-century Chinese writer described a trade route...

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Dvaravati

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Centuries AD: A Historical Ecology Approach to the Landscape of the Khorat Plateau". Asian Perspectives. 52 (2): 300–326. doi:10.1353/asi.2013.0017. hdl:10125/38732...

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