Tak Bai is a border town on Malaysia-Thailand Border, the capital of Tak Bai District, Narathiwat Province. Visitors can visit Malaysia by Pengkalan Kubur pass, Kelantan state.Administratively it is a town, and covers 9.14 km² of the subdistrict Che He. As of 2007 it has a population of 17,317.It is the location of the Tak Bai Incident of 25 October 2004 in which at least 85 demonstrators died.HistoryThe town was created as a sanitary district in 1956. Like all sanitary districts, it was upgraded to a subdistrict municipality in May 1999. On 31 January 2008 it was upgraded to a town .