Mukdahan (Thai: มุกดาหาร) is a town (thesaban mueang) and capital of Mukdahan Province, which became Thailand’s 73rd province in 1982. In the northern region of the country, on the right (west) bank of the river Mekong, it was formerly a district of Nakhon Phanom Province. The population of the municipal area was 180,600[2] in the year 2010. Mukdahan is 645 km north-east of Bangkok.
