Prachinburi province

Located in Si Mahosot district, their existed an ancient Buddhist site at the Sra Morakot Archeological Site. Chinese wares of the Northern Song have been recorded at the site, which Natthapong Matsong conjectures reached Dvaravati towns as goods of an elite.^{[5]: 215, 217} The site contains an Arogyasala dating to the reign of Jayavarman VII of the Khmer Empire in the late 1100s, although the Arogyasala was possibly constructed on an older Dvaravati shrine. Not much of the Arogyasala survives, but it most likely was designed in the standard layout.^[6] In the temple of Wat Morakot at the site contains the largest and oldest carvings of The Buddha's footprints in Thailand. Created between the 600s and 800s, the footprints were made from natural laterite and hold significance to Buddhists.^[7] The site also contains two ancient reserviors, with Sra Boa being one of them.^[8]

The ancient town of Si Mahosot, also called Dong Si Maha Phot, lies in the same district and stands at the centre of a long-running argument about religion in the Chao Phraya valley. Srisakra Vallibhotama divided the valley into a Buddhist western half and a Hindu eastern half centred on this town. Nicolas Revire rejects the division, and points to the textual, epigraphic and material evidence for Buddhists in the Si Mahosot region in the seventh and eighth centuries. Robert Brown treats the same ground as an eastern interface area between Preangkorian and Dvaravati art.^[9]: 399 A head from a Harihara sculpture, reported to have been found in Chanthaburi province, is held in the Prachin Buri National Museum.^[9]: 406 Imported wares have been reported from the ancient town, sherds of Tang ceramics and of Persian Gulf turquoise-glazed earthenware. A fragment of a Tang coin was recovered from monument 86 at the site.^{[10]: 2533–2534} Patcharaporn Ngernkerd and colleagues make Si Mahosot one of four central towns in their survey of fifteen moated sites in eastern Thailand, measuring 1.06 km² within its moat. It carries the highest density of ancient remains in the region.^[11]: 9 They place it on a former shoreline of the Gulf of Thailand, occupied since at least the sixth century, and report Chinese and Persian ceramics of the eighth and ninth centuries from it.^{[11]: 4–5} Gold and glass beads, gold-glass and semi-precious stone beads, kendi vessels and Roman eye beads are also reported from the town.^[11]: 5 A Buddha's footprint and a seated Buddha in a style associated with Funan are recorded there as well, and Ngernkerd and colleagues treat them as evidence that the town was already established during the sixth century.^{[11]: 5, 10} A further inscription from the province, K. 997 of 1061, is Buddhist and written in Old Khmer and Pali, and comes from Prasat Sra Morakot.^[11]: 7

The province is divided into two major parts, the low river valley of the Bang Pakong River, and the higher lands with plateaus and mountains of the Sankamphaeng Range, the southern prolongation of the Dong Phaya Yen Mountains. The total forest area is 1,436 km² (554 sq mi) or 28.6 percent of provincial area.^[12]

The provincial seal shows the Bodhi tree. It symbolizes the first Bodhi tree planted about 2,000 years ago at Wat Si Maha Phot. The provincial colors are red and yellow. Red symbolises the land and yellow, Buddhism.

The provincial tree is the Bodhi tree (Ficus religiosa). The provincial flower is the cork tree (Millingtonia hortensis). The cyprinid fish Cyclocheilichthys enoplos is the provincial fish.

The main hospital of Prachinburi province is Chaophraya Abhaibhubejhr Hospital.

Health	Education	Employment	Income
16	19	20	37
Housing	Family	Transport	Participation
54	69	62	39
Province Prachinburi, with an HAI 2022 value of 0.6428 is "average", occupies place 37 in the ranking.

Since 2003, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Thailand has tracked progress on human development at sub-national level using the Human achievement index (HAI), a composite index covering all the eight key areas of human development. National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB) has taken over this task since 2017.^[3]

Map with provinces and HAI 2022 rankings