An expressway stacked above the main road, with an exhibition centre and a long-standing mall beside it
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In Bang Na, there is a road stacked on top of the main road. That's the six-lane Burapha Withi elevated expressway, built right above Bangna-Trat Road. Bang Na has wide commercial boulevards, gated residential communities, and large malls—it feels a lot like American suburbs. People living in this area include office workers, families, and long-term expats. From BTS Bang Na station, you can walk across the skywalk straight into BITEC exhibition center.
Inside the venue, the concert hall BITEC LIVE can hold up to 10,000 people standing. A few kilometers east along the main road is the long-established mall Central Bangna. The mall has a supermarket and a movie theater, plus a water park on the top floor. Back on the street, based on our street photos, Bang Na's streets are pretty clean—it ranks 6th out of Bangkok's 32 neighborhoods for cleanliness. Street-side greenery, though, ranks 17th.
But a decent greenery ranking doesn't mean there are parks to go to—green space here is actually limited. From Central Bangna, it's a 15 to 20 minute drive to the nearest park, Rama IX Park, or to Nong Bon Lake. Transportation ranks only 29th out of the 32 neighborhoods, and convenience of daily life is also 28th. This area is really built for driving—it's spread out and not a walkable neighborhood; if you live deeper in, you'll want a car.
The name Bang Na means "rice field land," said to come from the rice fields that once covered this area before modern times. Sukhumvit Road opened in 1936, and today's Bang Na intersection is where it meets Bangna-Trat Road. Central Bangna opened in 1993, and BITEC followed four years later. In March 1998, Bang Na split off from Phra Khanong to become its own district. From that same year through 2010, the Bangkok International Motor Show was held every year at BITEC. In August 2011, BTS Bang Na station opened as the Sukhumvit Line extended eastward.
Compared with the 32 Bangkok neighborhoods in this guide (scores 0–10)
HA-accredited hospitals (excluding specialist institutes such as psychiatric and infectious-disease hospitals), schools and universities within 1 km (only those with an English name on OpenStreetMap; Bangkok publishes no school catchments), stations, parks of 1 ha or more, and large shopping malls and department stores.
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