Buketa

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subdivision_name1 = Narathiwat
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subdivision_name2 = Amphoe Waeng
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Buketa ( _th. บูเก๊ะตา) is a subdistrict municipality ("thesaban tambon") in Waeng district, Narathiwat Province, Thailand. It covers an area of 7.04 km² of the subdistrict Lochut, and as of 2007 has a population of 4,079. [cite web|url=http://www.dopa.go.th/xstat/p5096_04.html|publisher=Department of Provincial Administration|title=Population statistics, 2007] The municipality lies west of the Kolok River.

History

The municipality was created as a sanitary district ("sukhaphiban") in 1993. [cite journal|journal=Royal Gazette|volume=110|issue=175 ง ฉบับพิเศษ|pages=19–20|title=ประกาศกระทรวงมหาดไทย เรื่อง จัดตั้งสุขาภิบาลบูเก๊ะตา อำเภอแว้ง จังหวัดนราธิวาส|url=http://www.ratchakitcha.soc.go.th/DATA/PDF/2536/D/175/19.PDF|date=1993-10-29|language=Thai] Like all sanitary districts it was upgraded to a subdistrict municipality in 1999. [cite journal|journal=Royal Gazette|volume=116|issue=9 ก|pages=1–4|title=พระราชบัญญัติเปลี่ยนแปลงฐานะของสุขาภิบาลเป็นเทศบาล พ.ศ. ๒๕๔๒|url=http://www.ratchakitcha.soc.go.th/DATA/PDF/2542/A/009/1.PDF|date=1999-02-24|language=Thai]

Traffic

A crossing on the Malaysia-Thailand border to the neighboring Malaysian town of Bukit Bunga in Kelantan state was opened in December 2007, [cite web|url=http://www.kln.gov.my/?m_id=15&hid=564|publisher=Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Malaysia|title=Working visit of the prime minister of Thailand to Malaysia in conjunction with the official opening of the bridge across Golok river linking Bukit Bunga, Tanah Merah, Kelantan and Ban Buketa, Waeng district, Narathiwat on 21 December 2007|date=2007-12-19] crossing the Kolok river with the Bukit Bunga-Ban Buketa Bridge.

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