The area of Phuket Province is 543 square kilometers.

Phuket is an island is Thailand. Phuket is also a province and is capital is Phuket-city.

Phang Nga is NOT an island but a province on the mainland of Thailand, just north of Phuket.

Phuket is a town on the island of Phuket, which all together is in the province of Phuket, just south of the province of Phang Nga.

The population of Phuket Province is 348,504.

According to the official census, there were 300,000 people living in Phuket a few years ago. But this counts only the people who are REGISTERED in Phuket, not the people who actually live there. If we take this last criteria, the figure raise to one million people. For details read Phuket Realty: http://www.phuketrealty.info/2008/05/how-many-people.html And, for the number of foreigners living in Phuket: http://www.phuketrealty.info/2009/03/expat-residents-by-nation-for-phuket-.html