Welcome to Roiet, Thailand.

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Roi-Et is a province located in the middle part of Northeast Thailand and established over 200 years ago. It used to be a very large and glorious city named Saket Nakhon having 11 city gates and 11 satellite cities or subordinated communities under its ruling. Since there have been many developments in various aspects continually from the past thus changing it into a strange place where one can hardly trace its original features. ‘Roi-Et’, which means ‘101’ in Thai has a relation with the old 11 city gates. At the time, the number 11 and 101 were having similarities.

The history of the city of Roi-Et started around late Ayatthaya period, i.e., a king of Laos with his people migrated from Champasak city to settle down in the area which is currently Suwanna Phum. Later, during the reign of king Taksin of Thon Buri the city of Roi-Et was moved to the present site while Suwanna Phum is still located at its original location till now. In addition to historical evidences, there have been findings of archealogical evidences showing that the area used to be the habitat of pre-historic people. It was also under the influence of ancient Khmer kingdom and many ruins from that period could be visited in the province (Ko Ka Sing, Ko Phra Kona, etc.)

In 2002, the province of Roi-Et had 1 322 864 of population for an area of 8300 Km2. Rice fields occupy a large part of this region making Thailand the first producer of rice in the world. The total population of Thailand in 2002 (76 provinces) was 62 799 872.