Khae Rai Intersection

Khae Rai (Thai: แคราย, pronounced [kʰɛ̄ːrāːj]) is a four-way intersection in Bang Kraso Subdistrict, Mueang Nonthaburi District, Nonthaburi Province, north outskirts Bangkok. It is also the quarter surrounding its location in downtown Nonthaburi.

Khae Rai
แคราย
Location
Bang Kraso, Mueang Nonthaburi, Nonthaburi, Thailand
Coordinates
Roads at junction	Ngamwongwan (east) Tiwanon (south-west) Rattanathibet (west) Tiwanon (north-west)
Construction
Type	Four-way at-grade intersection and bidirectional flyover

The name "Khae Rai" in the past was spelled "Khae Lai" (แคลาย, pronounced [kʰɛ̄ːlāːj]). But from the protests from the Royal Society of Thailand, the authority has changed to spell correctly in the present. The word "Khae" means the vegetable hummingbird, a small perennial plant that used to grow on both sides of the road here in the past, and with their flowers that are both white and red when looking from a distance, make them look like a multicoloured fabrics. Hence the name "Khae Rai", which means "surrounded by vegetable hummingbirds".

Khae Rai is the meeting point of the last phase of Ngamwongwan Road and Tiwanon Road. The two of them combined around 1947,[1] during that time it was still a three-way junction. In 1983, there was an extension of Ngamwongwan Road, Rattanathibet Road, thus making it a four-way intersection.[2]

The area around Khae Rai is regarded as a growing number of real estate and public utilities, including condominiums, residences, government offices, shopping malls, shophouses, as well as elevated mass rapid transit monorail train line, MRT Purple Line, that served by nearby Nonthaburi Civic Center MRT Station (PP11). In the near future, it will also be the point of departure for the MRT Pink Line and the MRT Brown Line.[2]