Koh Lipe is a small island in the Adang-Rawi Archipelago of the Andaman Sea, in Satun Province of southwest Thailand, close to the Malaysian border. The Thai name is transliterated in many different ways into English. The most common names are "Koh Lipe", "Koh Lipeh", "Koh Lipey", and "Koh Lipe". Koh Lipe is on the border of the Tarutao National Marine Park and is directly south of the larger islands Ko Adang and Koh Rawi, and about 50 km from the island of Koh Tarutao. It was originally settled by a group of sea gypsies (chao leh in Thai), originally from Malaysia, known as the Urak Lawoi’ people.