Ko Kut (Thai: เกาะกูด, pronounced [kɔ̀ʔ kùːt]), also known as Koh Kood, is an island within the Gulf of Thailand. The island is administered as part of the Ko Kut District in Thailand’s Trat Province.

Description
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Ko Kut is the biggest of the dozen islands administered as part of the Ko Kut District. Some sources have described the island as being relatively remote and underdeveloped. The economic system of Ko Kut is centered round fishing, agriculture, and tourism. [3][4][5] [1][2] The island’s remoteness and lack of growth make it a possible hub for ecotourism.

Historical past
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The island and the whole Trat province emerged as a crucial trading hub through the Rattanakosin period (1782-1932) on account of its strategic location on the route to Siam’s capital city. Because the Japanese traffic intensified, pirates started to assemble on this area and its neighboring islands.[6]

Following the decline of the piracy period, the island’s inhabitants primarily relied on cultivating rubber, fruits, and coconut trees until the event of a local tourism trade within the 1990s. Ko Kut was disputed between Thailand. Cambodia in the mid-1960s.[7]

Underneath the 1907 Siamese-French Border Treaty, a continuation of an earlier settlement between Siam and France, which controlled Cambodia on the time. Due to this fact, despite Cambodia’s claims, Thailand retained control over Ko Kut below this international treaty, which designated the island as a part of Siam (now Thailand). [9] [8] After Cambodia’s independence in 1954, despite Cambodia’s claims to a number of sea areas and islets around the border, the 1907 Treaty was still acknowledged because the authorized basis for the recognition of Ko Kut as a part of Thailand. In this agreement, France ceded some of its beforehand claimed territory round Ko Kut to Siam, together with a number of small islands within the Sea of Siam.

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^ “Thailand’s Tourism Recovery Hinged On Tapping Into 227 Million Robust Domestic Marketplace”. Hospitality Internet. Retrieved 2020-09-29.

^ Vichit-Vadakan, Vincent (2018-01-17). “Koh Chang to Koh Kood: island-hopping around jap Thailand”. The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-09-30.

^ Haensel, Nanda (2020-03-08). “A travel guide to Koh Kood: Resorts, beaches, jungles, and waterfalls on this Thai island”. AsiaOne. Retrieved 2020-09-30.

^ Pilar (2023-07-05). “KOH KOOD: AN IDYLLIC PIRATES ISLAND IN THAILAND”. Retrieved 2024-01-26.

^ St John, Ronald Bruce (1998). Schofield, Clive (ed.). Boundary. Territory Briefing. Vol. The Land Boundaries of Indochina: Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam (PDF). p. 43. ISBN 1-897643-32-2. Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 November 2023. Retrieved 27 November 2023 – by way of www.durham.ac.uk. 2 (6). International Boundaries Analysis Unit, Department of Geography, College of Durham.

^ [1] Franco-British Rivalry over Siam, 1896-1904

^ “A no man’s land is key to unlocking a 20-yr Thai-Cambodian spat”. Radio Free Asia. Retrieved 10 November 2024.

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