It dose appear the name of Mueang Buriram in the papers on history of Ayutthaya and Thonburi period,especially other cities which presently are the districts of Buriram province namely; Mueang Nang Rong,Mueang Phutthaisong,Mueang Prakhon chai.
B.E. 2319, B.E. 2319,in the reign of King Taksin of Krung Thonburi, provincial directorate of Nakhon Ratchasima, had official report to say that Phraya Nang Rong instigued with Chao O,Chao In and vinceroy of Mueang Champasak to be the rebels,then please gave order to His Majesty King Rama I,the Great,while that time took a position of Chao Phraya Chakri,to be a commander to suppress and capture Phraya Nang Rong for capital punishment killing and joined to Chao Phraya Surasi (Somdet Phra Bawornrajchao Maha Sura Singhanat) controlled the Northern city to advance by successfully attack with 3 cities namely; Mueang Champasak,Mueang Khong, Mueang Atta Po,then executed Chal O,Chao In and Vinceroy of Mueang Champasak and persuaded all the nearby cities to surrender all these namely; Khmer Pa Dong, Ta lup,Surin,Sangkha and Mueang Khu Khan and gathered the people to Settle the city in Khmer that called Mueng Pae and oppointed Buriram who was son of Chao Mueang Pathai Samon(Putthaisong) to be the city,after that to be Phraya Nakhon Pakdee around the end of the reign of Phra Bat Somdet Phra Poramenthrd Maha Mongkut Phra Chom Klao Chao Yu Hua or in the beginning of the reign of HM King Chulalongkorn the Great had changed the name of Mueang Pae to be “Buriram” with found that had to be appointed Phraya Ritthirong to be Phra Nakhonpakdee Srinakhara as regent of Mueang Buriram to bu under Nakhon Ratchsima in B.E. 2411, Mueang Buriram and Mueang Nang Rong took turn continually to be importance city.
B.E. 2433, Mueang Buriram had changed to be under the Northern city of Laos which had Nong Khai to be center and there was a city to be under Mueang Buriram namely; Mueang Nang Rong after that around B.E. 2440-2441 Mueang Buriram had turned to be under to Nakhon Ratchasima precinct that called “Borriwen Nang Rong” which including Mueang Buriram, Nang Rong, Rattana Buri, Phra Khon Chai and Putthaisong.
B.E. 2442, had declaration to change the name of Laos Chiang precinct to be the Northwesthern precinct, Laos Phuan precinct to be the Northern precinct, Laos precinct to be Northeasthern precinct, Khmer precinct to be Easthern precinct and this time had changed Borriwen Nang Rong to be “Mueang Nang Rong” and evaluated to be Mueang Chattawa and located the office at Mueang Buriram but the seal of positition was seal of Nang Rong administrator, Ministry of Interior ,and then had declared to chang the name to “Mueang Buriram” and changed the seal of position to be provincial governor of Buriram since 3 August B.E. 2444 until now.
B.E. 2450, Ministry of Interior improved the city in the Northeastern region to Nakhon Ratchasima prcinet which consist of 3 provinces, 17 districts those are Mueang Nakhon Ratchsima 10 districts, Mueang Chaiyaphum 3 districtsl Mueang Buriram 4 districts namely; Nang Rang, Putthaisong, Pra Khon Chai and Rattanaburi afterwards had enacted “Siam kingdom Administration Regulations Act B.E. 2476” and abolished Nakhon Ratchasima precinct to reregulate Administrative Organization of the provincial area to be provinces and Mueang Buriram District then evaluated to be “Buriram Province” form that time on. Prasat Hin means Prasat Khao Phanom Rung which is walled and inside the thron hall has the shrines,Buriram province is located in North-east of Thailand.
Buriram has total area of 10,322 Km2 or approximate of 6,451,000 Rai
Population : 1,536,722 (A.C.2006) Density : 149/km2
Administrative Division of the province is divided int o 23 districts, 189 subdistricts and 2,212 villages.