Capital of the same-named province and home to some 60,000 people, the modern city of Ayutthaya covers a large area. Most travellers hardly stray from “the island”, or Ko Mueang, which stretches between the Prasak River in the east, the Chao Phraya River to the south and west, and the Mueang Canal to the north. The Lopburi River also flows into town from the north. Uthong Road encircles the roughly oval-shaped island, which comes in at roughly five kilometres long from east to west and three kilometres wide from north to south.