Padang Besar, Thailand

Since 2004 the municipality has had town status (thesaban mueang) and covers parts of the sub-district (tambon) Padang Besa.

[1] There is a road and rail border crossing into Malaysia in Padang Besar.

All rail passenger formalities, including for exiting Thailand, are carried out in the Malaysian Padang Besar railway station where there is an integrated customs, immigration, and quarantine checkpoint for both countries.

[2] Like all sanitary districts, it was upgraded to a sub-district municipality (thesaban tambon) in 1999.

[3] Effective 8 November 2004 it was upgraded to town status (thesaban mueang).

Thailand's Padang Besar Immigration, Customs and Quarantine Checkpoint.