Chiang Rai province

Chiang Rai province shares 41 connections with 842 other places across 10 topics, anchored in nature, language, and history. The province sits at the northern edge of Thailand where the borders of Thailand, Laos, and Myanmar converge in the Golden Triangle, a zone once shaped by cross-border drug smuggling before coffee and other agricultural crops transformed it. Populations have lived here since the 7th century, and the area became the center of the Lanna Kingdom in the 13th century. Strong ties run to China, Laos, Myanmar, and Yunnan.