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Bangkok's Million-Tree Register

Bangkok logs every planting from its million-tree campaign in a public register. Since June 2022, district crews, companies and residents photograph each specimen, choose the species and drop a map pin — residents through the LINE account @BangkokTree — and the entries appear on a live map at tree.bangkok.go.th. The register also exposes what the headline number contains: when the city declared its first million reached on 2 July 2024, only 35 percent of the records were trees, the rest shrubs and climbers. No survival audit has been published.

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📊 Impact

2,680,178 plantings registered by 26 July 2026, of which 1,551,579 are perennial trees, 946,297 shrubs and 182,302 climbers. At the 1,002,166-record milestone of 2 July 2024 the split was 35% trees, 47% shrubs, 18% climbers.

🎓 Lesson

A per-object register makes a political headline number auditable, and shows what it is made of. It also shows who does the work: of the first million records, district offices logged 804,791 and residents' communities 2,281.

Evidence🏛️ Official
Scale🏙️ City-wide

Sources

↗ BangkokTree registerThe register itself: live running totals (2,680,178 plantings, 1,551,579 perennials, 946,297 shrubs, 182,302 climbers, stamped 26 July 2026), filterable by district and planting body, with a map of individual planting records showing location, organisation and date.
↗ Greener Bangkok — Million Tree Planting ProjectOfficial programme page: the two registration paths (the LINE account for the public, the web portal for organisations), the photo, species and self-placed map pin workflow, and the ability to view a planting's history and update its status.
↗ Thai PBS The Active — Bangkok passes its million-tree target (2 July 2024)Independent public broadcaster: programme start June 2022, the 1,002,166-record milestone with composition 349,011 perennials, 471,624 shrubs and 182,302 climbers, and the split by planting body — district offices 804,791, private sector and state enterprises 110,670, the Environment Office 75,436, other agencies 9,759, communities 2,281.
↗ The Standard — the city reports its million-tree results (2 July 2024)Independent confirmation that the site records each tree's coordinates, planter and species; the 35/47/18 percent composition; the raised two-million target with a stated shift towards perennials; and the city's pledge to go into the field and check survival rates of what was already planted.
↗ Mongabay — as tree planting gathers pace in Bangkok, urban green spaces still under threat (June 2025)Independent counterweight: researchers say the plantings are mostly seedlings rather than saplings, that many species are non-native small trees and climbers, and that survival rates and canopy contribution have not been studied.
📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Bangkok's Million-Tree Register” — Bangkok, Thailand. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/bangkok-million-tree-register/ (last verified 2026-07-26). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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