Monument · Ratchathewi & Phaya Thai
Victory Monument
อนุสาวรีย์ชัยสมรภูมิ
An obelisk for a war almost nobody remembers, now Bangkok's busiest transit vortex.
Jing ler? — no way
It commemorates Thailand's 1940–41 war against Vichy France over Indochinese border provinces — a conflict so obscure that even the truce was brokered by Imperial Japan. The bayonet-shaped obelisk is one of the world's few monuments to a war against France in Asia.
Jing ler? — no way
Explore it in the 3D city →Today the roundabout is Bangkok's informal transit capital: the minivan networks radiating from its corners can put you in any province of the country — locals joke that all Thai roads begin at Victory.