Samut Prakan Province
Samut Prakan (Thai: 
สมุทรปราการ?, Template:IPA-th) is ane o the central provinces (changwat) o Thailand.
Neighborin provinces are in the wast an north Bangkok an Chachoengsao tae the east.
Suvarnabhumi Airport (or an aa cawed (New) Bangkok Internaitional Airport) is locatit in the Bang Phli district o Samut Prakan province.
[edit] History
The province wis created durin the Ayutthaya period, wi its administrative center locatit at Prapadaeng. It wis the sea port o Siam, an wis secured wi forts, toun moats an toun-walls. Keeng Buddha Loetla Nabhalai stairtin the biggin o the new center at Samut Prakan in 1819, efter his predecessor Keeng Taksin haed disbandit the toun fortification. Aathegither sax forts wur built on baith sides o the Chao Phraya river, an on an island in the river the pagoda Phra Samut Chedi wis erectit. O the oreeginal sax forts ae twa still exist today, Phi Sua Samut an Phra Chulachomklao.
[edit] Etymology
In Thai the wird samut is frae Sanskrit, Samudra means ocean or sea an prakan means fortress.
[edit] Geography
Samut Prakan is locatit at the mouth o the Chao Phraya river tae the Gulf o Thailand. Thus the province is an aa sometimes cawed Pak Nam (ปากน้ำ), the Thai wird for the mouth o a river. The pairt o the province locatit on the wastren side o the river consist maistly o rice an prawn fields as well as mangrove forests, while the east pairt is the urban center - includin industrial factories. It is pairt o the Bangkok metropolis, the urbanization on baith sides o the provincial boondary is identical. The province haes a coastline o approximately 47.2 kilometers.
