The name means "Elephant Island", and comes from its elephant-shaped headland. Despite the presence of elephants on the island, they are not endemic. At present, there are 9 villages on the island.
Ko Chang Jiang is half of AN terra firma of fifty one islands, and is approximately thirty kilometer long by fourteen kilometer, wide with a total area of 217 km². It is a part of the Mu blow Chang Jiang park, which covers AN space of 650 km², of which seventieth is offshore.
The main settlements on the geographic region are around Sai Khao, Hat Kai Mook, and Hat Ta Nam, with the village of Bang Bao on the south coast.
The first foreign backpackers started inbound on blow Chang Jiang within the mid-1970s, using native fishing boats, when the island was still undeveloped.
It has since become a serious tourist destination, both for foreigners and Thais, with a number of traveller resorts being developed.
Despite this, tourism on blow Chang Jiang remains significantly less developed than on blow Samui or Phuket.
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