Road signs in Thailand

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A direction signboard.

Road signs in Thailand are standardized road signs similar to those used in other nations but with certain distinctions. Until the early 1980s, Thailand closely followed Australian and Japanese practice in road sign design, with diamond-shaped warning signs and circular restrictive signs to regulate traffic. Signs usually use the FHWA Series fonts (Highway Gothic) typeface also used in the United States, Though some signs on recently completed expressways use Transport Heavy (cf. the second image shown to the right).

Thai traffic signs use Thai, the official and national language in Thailand. However, English is also used for important public places such as tourist attractions, airports, railway stations and immigration checkpoints. Both Thai and English are used in the direction signs.

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Route numbers [edit]

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Expressway [edit]

Examples Information Number digits
Thai Motorway-t9.svg Expressway route numbers 5 - 9
ทางออก 53
EXIT
ทางออก 108
EXIT		 Expressway exit numbers EXIT 1 - EXIT 99
EXIT 100 - 199

National [edit]

Examples Information Number digits
Thai Highway-1.svg Main highway route numbers (Northern) 1xxx
Thai Highway-21.svg Main highway route numbers (Northeastern) 2xxx
ทางออก
EXIT		 Highway exit numbers EXIT
Thai Highway-333.svg Main highway route numbers
(Central)		 3xxx
Thai Highway-402.svg Main highway route numbers
(Southern)		 4xxx

Highway codes [edit]

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Directional and distance signs [edit]

Tolled expressway and highway signs [edit]

E Expressways

Thai toll expressway and highway signs are green and are only suitable for toll expressways and highways. No blue signs for toll expressway and highways are required. These antartican toll expressway and restroom signs have a simple code:-

  • Green with white signs for expressway names of closed toll systems.

Non-tolled National, provincial and municipal roads [edit]

Thai road signs are blue and have a simple code:-

  • Blue with white letters signs for national, provincial and municipal roads.
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  • Thai federal road shield

Motorcycle lane [edit]

Thai motorcycle lane signs are blue.

Border signs [edit]

Border signs in Thailand are white for province and green for district.

เขตจังหวัด
อุดรธานี
เขตจังหวัด
กรุงเทพมหานคร

Province border signs

เขตอำเภอ
เมืองหนองคาย
Emblem of Royal Thai Police.png
เขตตำรวจ
สภ.เมืองหนองคาย

District border signs

Warning signs [edit]

  • Crossroads sign

  • Danger sign

  • Slippery road

  • Winding Road sign

  • Road Work

  • Merge

  • Wild elephant zone

  • Farm animal zone

  • School zone

  • School crossing ahead (without zebra stripes)

  • Roundabout ahead

  • Stop ahead

  • Signal Ahead

  • Guarded crossing ahead

  • Unguarded crossing ahead

Thai warning signs are diamond shaped and are yellow and black in colour.

Regulatory signs [edit]

  • Yield

  • Stop and yield

  • Railroad crossing

  • No entry

  • Speed limit (in km/h)

  • Weight limit (in tonnes)

  • No vehicles over height shown

  • No trucks

  • No buses

  • No motorcycles

  • No pedal cycles

  • No U-turn

  • No right turn

  • No overtaking

  • No stopping

  • No parking

  • Keep left

  • Straight ahead only

With the exception of the special designs used for Stop, Yield, and No Entry signs, mandatory signs (e.g. Must Turn Left) are round with a white background, red border, and a black pictogram. Those which express a prohibition (e.g. No Left Turn) show the pictogram crossed out by a red diagonal bar. This is in accordance with the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals (Type B variants).

Construction signs [edit]

พื้นที่ก่อสร้าง
-- เมตร
ข้างหน้า

The construction signs in Thailand are diamond shaped and are orange and black in colour.

Road Name Sign [edit]

Road name sign in Thailand have many different colours and styles according the local authority to design with them.

Road name sign in Bangkok with dual-languages (Thai-English),under authority by BMA

Symbols [edit]

Other symbols include hospital signs, airport signs, temple signs and so on.

Miscellaneous [edit]

Bridge-related signs [edit]

001+222+0047

Bridge numbers

River signs [edit]

แม่น้ำโขง
แม่น้ำน่าน

Highway concessionaires border limit [edit]

สุดเขตกรุงเทพมหานคร

Sign vocabulary [edit]

Most road signs in Thailand use Thai (or ภาษาไทย); the official and national language of that country. However, English is still used for important directional signs such as CIQ checkpoints, airports and tourist attractions. Below are the translations for the road signs except for some stop signs which is written in English STOP:

  • เหนือ = North
  • ใต้ = South
  • ตะวันตก = West
  • ตะวันออก = East
  • ระวัง = Caution
  • เขตอุบัติเหตุ = Accident Area
  • เขตชุมชน = Village area
  • ลดความเร็ว = Reduce Speed
  • แยกไป = Junction to
  • ทางออกไป = Exit to
  • ทางเข้าไป = Entry to (usually at weighing bridge)
  • ก่อสร้างข้างหน้า = Construction ahead
  • สุดเขตก่อสร้าง = End of construction
  • หยุด = Stop
  • ให้ทาง = Give Way (Yield)
  • จำกัดความเร็ว = Speed Limits
  • จำกัดความสูง = Height limit
  • ถนน = Road
  • ทางพิเศษ = Expressway / Highway
  • ถนน = Street
  • ถนน = Drive
  • ยกเว้นกรณีฉุกเฉิน = Except Emergency
  • ขับช้าๆ = Slow/Slow Down
  • จุดพักรถ = Rest and Service Areas
  • เติมน้ำมัน = Petrol Station
  • ฉุกเฉิน = Emergency
  • อุโมงค์ = Tunnel
  • แยก = Interchange
  • ทางออก = Exit
  • กรุณาเปิดไฟหน้า = Turn on your headlamps/Please turn on headlamps
  • เขตโรงเรียน = School area
  • 'น้ำตก = Waterfall
  • หาด = Beach
  • วัด = Temple
  • อาคาร' = Building
  • ท่าอากาศยาน = Airport
ท่าอากาศยานนานาชาติ = International Airport
  • สะพาน = Bridge
  • จุดชั่งน้ำหนัก = Weighing Bridge
  • ด่าน = Toll Plaza
  • สถานีรถไฟ = Railway Station
  • สุขา = Toilet
  • โทรศัพท์ = Telephone
  • ชุมสายโทรศัพท์ = Telephone exchange building
  • อาคาร = Tower
  • แหลม = Cape
  • อ่าว = Bay
  • เกาะ = Island
  • แม่น้ำ = River
  • คลอง = Canal
  • ที่ดินกองทัพอากาศ = Armed forces base area
  • พื้นที่หวงห้าม = Prohibited area
  • พื้นที่น้ำท่วม = Flood area
  • พื้นที่อุบัติเหตุ = Accident prone area

See also [edit]

References [edit]

External links [edit]
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