Yasothon is a town on the Chi River in the north-eastern district of Thailand. It is the capital and regulatory focal point of Yasothon Province and seat of its City District. Inside this locale, subdistrict Nai Mueang includes the limits of the town legitimate, which had a populace of 21,134 out of 2005. It lies 531 km 330 mi north-east of Bangkok, the Thai capital. A climate worn and now almost obscured marker raised by Thailand's Fine Arts division for a Khmer chedi by Wat Sing Tha, related that amid the Thonburi Era, grandson Thao Kham Su called the settlement Ban Sing Thong.
The wat, which had been betrayed until the point when thick wilderness development obstructed the arrival, was cleared, re-manufactured and renamed after the new town. The change from Thong Gold to Tha was impacted by two components: Tha implies port or landing and furthermore present with numerous undertones. In this manner the adjustment in name to Sing Tha implies Port Lion, and furthermore Imposing Lion, for example, those presented on the Lion Gate, and on platforms on the sanctuary grounds. For the incredible adaptation, see Symbols of Yasothon area.