Bangkok Map Art

Bangkok's street grid fragments into a dense maze of sois and thanons around the Chao Phraya River, which loops through the city in tight meanders before splitting into canals that dissect entire neighborhoods. The river's curves—especially the dramatic U-bend near Thonburi—create natural divisions that the city never fully erased with roads. Modern expressways cut diagonals across this organic pattern, while the BTS and MRT rail lines impose their own geometry, threading through the chaos in near-straight lines.

13.7563° N, 100.5018° E