Phuket Quick Facts
Phuket Province comprises Phuket island, Thailand’s largest island, and 32 smaller islands off the coast
Phuket lies off Thailand’s west coast in the Andaman Sea. The main island, Phuket, is connected with the nearest province to the North, Phang Nga, by the Sarasin Bridge
Covering a total area of 573km2, Phuket is the second-smallest province in Thailand. According to the 2018 census, the province’s total population is 410,211 people
Phuket features a tropical climate with two distinct seasons in a year. The temperature here averages 29oC and the precipitation falls around 2220mm annually
Once a place of tin mining, Phuket has turned into the leading tourist spots in Thailand and in Southeast Asia in general. According to the statistics, about 10 million tourists flocked to Phuket in 2017
Besides tourism, Phuket is also known to be the land of rubber tree plantations, which makes Thailand the largest rubber producing country in the world