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Bangkok has several parks, although these amount to a per capita total park area of only {{convert|1.82|m2}} in the city proper. Total green space for the entire city is moderate, at {{convert|11.8|m2}} per person. In the more densely built-up areas of the city these numbers are as low as {{convert|1.73|and|0.72|m2}} per person.<ref name="Bunvong"/> More recent numbers claim that there is 3.3 m² of green space per person,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Ocharoenchai |first1=Nanticha |title=Seeing green is believing |url=https://www.bangkokpost.com/lifestyle/social-and-lifestyle/1578442/seeing-green-is-believing |accessdate=2018-12-14 |work=Bangkok Post |date=2018-11-19}}</ref> compared to an average of 39 m² in other cities across Asia. In Europe, London has 33.4 m² of green space per head.<ref>{{cite news|title=Tower project 'suspicious'|url=http://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/1278859/tower-project-suspicious|accessdate=1 July 2017|work=Bangkok Post|date=2017-07-01|format=Editorial}}</ref> Bangkokians thus have 10 times less green space than is standard in the region's urban areas.<ref>{{cite news|title=A shopping complex, or a 'green lung'|url=http://www.nationmultimedia.com/opinion/A-shopping-complex-or-a-green-lung-30259964.html|accessdate=13 May 2015|work=The Nation|date=2015-05-13}}</ref> [[Green belt]] areas include about {{convert|700|km2}} of rice paddies and orchards on the eastern and western edges of the city, although their primary purpose is to serve as flood [[detention basin]]s rather than to limit urban expansion.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Beyond greenbelts and zoning: A new planning concept for the environment of Asian mega-cities|journal=Landscape and Urban Planning|volume=47|issue=3–4 |pages=159–171|first1=Makoto |last1=Yokohari |first2=Kazuhiko|last2=Takeuchi|first3=Takashi |last3=Watanabe |first4=Shigehiro |last4=Yokota|date=10 April 2000|doi=10.1016/S0169-2046(99)00084-5 }}</ref> [[Bang Kachao]], a {{convert|20|km2|adj=on}} conservation area on an oxbow of the Chao Phraya, lies just across the southern riverbank districts, in [[Samut Prakan Province]]. A master development plan has been proposed to increase total park area to {{convert|4|m2}} per person.<ref name="Bunvong">{{cite journal|last1=Thaiutsa|first1=Bunvong|first2=Ladawan |last2=Puangchit|first3=Roger |last3=Kjelgren|first4=Wanchai |last4=Arunpraparut |title=Urban green space, street tree and heritage large tree assessment in Bangkok, Thailand|journal=Urban Forestry & Urban Greening|date=1 August 2008|volume=7|issue=3|pages=219–229|doi=10.1016/j.ufug.2008.03.002}}</ref>

 

 

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