Lampang

Lampang, also called Nakhon Lampang, is the third largest city in northern Thailand and the capital of Lampang province, about 601 kilometers north of Bangkok and 101 kilometers southeast of Chiang Mai. It was a significant city of the historic Lanna kingdom, and in the late eighteenth century a local uprising led by the marksman Nan Thipchang broke Burmese control of the area, after which his descendants ruled Lanna cities as vassal rulers until the region full incorporation into Siam under King Chulalongkorn. Teak logging drove the local economy from the late 1800s into the early 1900s, and a railway reached the city in 1916; during the Second World War it served as a base for Japanese forces and a target of Allied bombing. Lampang is known today for its horse-drawn carriages, which give it the nickname mueang rot ma, or horse carriage city.