The area of Nakhon Ratchasima Municipality is generally plains and rolling plains, southwest and south to the low hills are not steep altitudes. The slope down to the north, next to the north of the urban area is the lowlands. These locations are often flooded in the flood season, the utilization of the area for agriculture. Early settlements in the area of the original city, and scattered around the moat to the west along the road to reach the railway station. Currently, an area such as the downtown area is another, the center of the community with a high density. Because to the terrain obstacles and restrictions, on the south side is a military zone, the north side is the lowland in the rainy season and a railroad through the urban, cause to expansion to along the length of the east and west. The highway No. 2 is a residential and industrial, while the area to the east is a large public marsh as an obstacle to growth of the urban, to be expanded to the southeast along the highway No. 224, mostly is the industrial factory processing of agricultural, and industrial estate.