title: Khlong Thom district
text: # Khlong Thom district
  
  Khlong Thom (Thai: คลองท่อม, pronounced) is a district (amphoe) in Krabi province, Thailand.
  
  ## Geography
  
  Neighboring districts are (from the west clockwise): Ko Lanta, Nuea Khlong, Khao Phanom, and Lam Thap of Krabi Province, and Wang Wiset and Sikao of Trang province. To the southwest is the Andaman Sea.
  
  ## History
  
  In 1917, the district's name was changed from Khlong Phon (คลองพล) to Khlong Thom.
  
  ## Administration
  
  The district is divided into seven sub-districts (tambons), which are further subdivided into 67 villages (mubans). There are two sub-district municipalities (thesaban tambons): Khlong Thom Tai and Khlong Phon, each covering parts of the same-named tambons. Each tambon has a tambon administrative organization (TAO), responsible for the area not belonging to any of the municipalities.
  
  | No. | Name | Thai | Villages | Pop. |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1. | Khlong Thom Tai | คลองท่อมใต้ | 09 | 11,686 |
  | 2. | Khlong Thom Nuea | คลองท่อมเหนือ | 08 | 05,877 |
  | 3. | Khlong Phon | คลองพน | 14 | 18,384 |
  | 4. | Sai Khao | ทรายขาว | 07 | 10,092 |
  | 5. | Huai Nam Khao | ห้วยน้ำขาว | 10 | 08,636 |
  | 6. | Phru Din Na | พรุดินนา | 10 | 09,833 |
  | 7. | Phela | เพหลา | 09 | 05,829 |
  
  ## Environment
  
  The residents of tambon Klong Phon's Ban Tha Maphrao community were the recipients of the 2018 Mechai Viravaidya Award. The award, funded by the Stock Exchange of Thailand Foundation, honours communities for outstanding social development initiatives. The award was granted for the community's reforestation of several thousand rai of mangrove forest destroyed years earlier by shrimp farmers. Today, about 70 percent of community residents, over 2,000 people, are able to earn around 500 baht per day by selling mangrove crabs, black crabs, and other marine life they catch in the forest or local waters.
  
  