CHANTIBAN, a large town of Siam, the capital of a province of the same name, on the south bank of a small river near its mouth in the Gulf of Siam, 150 miles S.E. of Bangkok, in 12° 45' N. lat. and 102° 18' E. long. It is the seat of one of the Siamese arsenals, and has a considerable export trade in pepper, cardamoms, rosewood, dyewoods, ship-timber, hides, horns, and ivory. In the vicinity there are mines of precious stones. The population, which is estimated at 30,000, contains a large proportion of Chinese traders.