Administrative Divisions
The province is subdivided into sixteen districts (amphoe), 209 communes (tambon)/sub-districts and 1328 villages (muban). There are two districts which have the same English name; however this is only because the different pronunciation and thus different spelling in Thai gets lost in romanization. Ayutthaya is unique among the provinces of Thailand in that the district of its capital city is not called Amphoe Mueang , as the common scheme would suggest, but rather Amphoe Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya:
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