Buke Ta (Thai: บูเก๊ะตา, pronounced [būː.kéʔ tāː]; Malay: Bukit Tar) is a subdistrict municipality (thesaban tambon) in Waeng district, Narathiwat Province, Thailand. It covers an area of 7.04 km (2.72 sq mi) of the subdistrict Lochut, and as of 2007 has a population of 4,079. The municipality lies west of the Kolok River.

History

The municipality was created as a sanitary district (sukhaphiban) in 1993. Like all sanitary districts it was upgraded to a subdistrict municipality in 1999.

Traffic

A crossing on the Malaysia-Thailand border to the neighboring Malaysian town of Bukit Bunga in Kelantan state was opened in December 2007, crossing the Kolok River with the Bukit Bunga–Ban Buketa Bridge.