LandsMaps — Search Thai Land Parcels and Title Deeds Online
The Department of Lands’ public map service: type a deed number and see where that parcel actually sits — before you agree to anything or hand over a deposit.
landsmaps.dol.go.th
What you can do
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See where the parcel really is
Enter a deed number with its province and district, and the parcel outline is drawn over a base map and aerial imagery so you can see exactly where the land lies.
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The basic registered particulars
Deed number, parcel number, survey page, map-sheet number and the area recorded on the document — all on one screen, without queueing at a counter.
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Appraised value for budgeting
The official appraised value underpins the fees and taxes charged at registration, so it lets you budget ahead — even though staff calculate the final figure.
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Know which land office to go to
Results name the land office responsible for the plot, so there is no guessing which branch to visit to register a deal or check the paperwork.
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A first check before any deposit
Match the plot a seller showed you against the deed number in the contract — the fastest way to catch a switched parcel or altered paperwork.
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Owner details stay closed
Names of title holders and encumbrances are not shown — they are protected personal data, released only to someone with a legitimate interest who applies at the land office.
What is LandsMaps?
LandsMaps is the Department of Lands’ public web map for finding where a given land parcel sits on the map of Thailand. You enter a title deed number together with the province and district where the land lies, and the system draws the parcel outline over a base map and aerial imagery, alongside the plot’s basic registered particulars — no trip to a land office and no queue.
The heaviest users are prospective buyers, who want to know whether the plot a seller walked them around is the same plot named on the deed. Next come owners revisiting the position and shape of land they already hold — inherited plots nobody has visited in years, where the boundaries have long since blurred. Then there are people costing something out in advance: families planning an inheritance split, or borrowers preparing to pledge land as collateral.
How the search actually works
The most reliable route is to search from the document in your hand: the face of a deed already carries the province, the district, the deed number, the parcel number and the survey page. The system needs the location first because deed numbers do not run as one national sequence — they are counted within the area each land office covers, so the same number exists in several provinces. Without the paperwork, the alternative is to pan and zoom to the area you care about and pick the parcel off the map.
What comes back typically covers the deed number, the parcel and survey-page numbers, the map-sheet number, the area recorded on the document, the land office responsible for the plot, and the official appraised value that serves as the basis for fees and taxes at registration. All of it is reference information, meant to give you a picture of the parcel before any real transaction starts.
| What you need | On LandsMaps | At the land office |
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| Where the parcel is | Visible immediately on the map | Not needed unless you want it as evidence |
| Area and register numbers | Shown as reference data | Ask for a register check when it must be confirmed |
| Owner, mortgage, encumbrances | Not shown | Apply as a person with a legitimate interest |
| The exact boundary line | Only an indicative outline | Requires a re-survey by a land surveyor |
| Appraised value for fee calculation | Useful as a guide | Staff compute the actual amount at registration |
The limits, stated plainly
- It is not an official register search and not a certified copy of a deed, so a printout or screenshot cannot stand in for the real document.
- The data may lag the latest registration. If a plot has recently been transferred, subdivided or merged, confirm the current position with the land office.
- Land held under something other than a full title deed — a certificate of use, for instance — may not appear at all, or may carry less detail than titled land.
- Ownership and encumbrances such as mortgages or injunctions are never public; the law protects them as personal data.
Check hard before the deposit
Land fraud in Thailand is rarely sophisticated. The classic version is a forged deed, or one whose figures have been altered. The other is a walk around a handsome roadside plot followed by a contract drawn against a different deed number, for a landlocked parcel further back. Buyers who rush a deposit for fear of losing the deal lose the most. LandsMaps strips away the first layer of that risk by showing where the deed number on the paperwork actually points.
- Run the seller’s deed number yourself and compare the position with the land you visited — do not let the seller be the one holding the screen.
- Use the aerial imagery to see whether the plot touches a public road. Landlocked land is constrained in how it can be used, built on and resold.
- Compare the area shown with what the seller states and what the contract says. Any discrepancy needs an explanation before money changes hands.
- Be wary of same-day pressure, a price far below the market, and requests to transfer money to an account belonging to someone who is not party to the contract.
Why this page exists
LandsMaps behaves as an interactive map: a parcel result only comes into existence once someone has typed the details in, so there is no fixed address for a search engine to have collected in advance. Beyond that we can say less than we once could. The site now refuses our audit host outright — even a full desktop-browser request profile comes back as a firewall block page — and that includes robots.txt, the one document that states a crawling policy publicly and identically for every requester, which we can therefore no longer read. An earlier check did find Google-specific rules in that file, but we cannot confirm they still stand, and a refusal aimed at our own host is no evidence about the real Googlebot, which crawls from Google’s own IP ranges and verifies itself by reverse DNS. Either way, plenty of people still do not know the Department of Lands offers the tool for free. This page works as a signpost — it explains, in the words people genuinely search with, what the service can and cannot do, then hands them the official address. ThaiGov.co is an independent directory with no affiliation to any government body; it takes no personal data and charges nothing.
How to use it
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Take every number off the deed
A deed states the province and district where the land lies, the deed number, the parcel number and the survey page. Write them all down first — the system needs the location alongside the numbers to identify the right plot.
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Open the site from its official address
Type the address yourself or follow the link on this page. Basic searches are open to the public with no account. If a link reached you through chat or a property listing, confirm the domain belongs to the Department of Lands before trusting it.
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Set the location, then search by deed number
Choose the province and district, then enter the deed number. If the result is not what you expected, search by parcel number and survey page instead — a different set of figures, and often the way to pin down a plot when an old deed is hard to read.
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Read the result against what you were told
Check where the outline sits, whether it touches a public road, whether the area matches what was agreed, and which land office holds it. The appraised value gives a rough sense of costs, but confirm current fee rates from an official source.
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Walk the land with the result open
Open the result on your phone while standing on the plot and match it against the aerial imagery and the landmarks around you — a road, a canal, an existing fence. Mismatches surface fastest this way.
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Verify at the land office before committing
Before a deposit, a contract or any transfer of money, take the documents to the land office that holds the plot. Some records go only to people with a legitimate interest, so bring your paperwork and, if you can, go together with the seller.
Go to the official site
You are leaving ThaiGov.co for the agency’s official website — landsmaps.dol.go.th
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Frequently asked questions
Does LandsMaps cost anything, or need an account?
Searching for a parcel and reading its basic details is open to the public, free, and needs no registration. Fees arise only when you ask the land office for documents or carry out a transaction there — a certified copy, or a transfer registration — and current rates should be checked with the Department of Lands directly.
The search finds nothing — what now?
The usual cause is a province or district that no longer matches the document — administrative boundaries get redrawn long after a deed is issued — or a digit misread from old paperwork. Try the parcel number and survey page instead, or pan the map to the area and select the plot directly. If it still does not appear, the land may be held under a document other than a full title deed, or the data may be incomplete, and the local land office is where to ask.
Does it show who owns the land?
No. Names of title holders, mortgages and injunctions are withheld as protected personal data. Seeing the full register means applying at the land office and showing a legitimate interest — as a party to a sale, an heir, or a mortgagee.
Is the appraised value the market price?
It is not. The appraised value is set by the authorities to calculate fees and taxes at registration, it is revised on a cycle, and it commonly differs from the price a buyer and seller actually settle on. Use it to budget for costs, not to gauge what the land is worth.
Can the outline settle a boundary with a neighbour?
No. The outline is positional reference data, not a survey with markers set on the ground, and a gap between the line on screen and the posts in the field is always possible. For a dispute, or before building a permanent fence, request a boundary re-survey from the land office so a surveyor establishes the line in front of the adjoining owners.
How do I know the deed a seller shows me is genuine?
The only real confirmation is comparing the paperwork against the official counterpart held at the land office responsible for the plot — every deed has one. A LandsMaps search covers the first step, showing whether that deed number points to the position and area the seller claims, but it cannot tell you whether the paper in your hands is authentic. A seller who avoids going to the land office with you is a warning sign.