What is the population of Phuket Province?

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