Samut Prakan Province

Samut Prakan
Samut Prakan; สมุทรปราการ
	Province
	Seal
	Map o Thailand heichlichtin Samut Prakan Province
Kintra	Thailand
Caipital	Samut Prakan
Govrenment
• Govrenor	Khanit eiamrahong (syne October 2012)
Area
• Total	1004.1 km2 (387.7 sq mi)
Area rank	Rankit 70t
Population (2011)
• Total	1,203,223
• Rank	Rankit 18t
• Density	1,200/km2 (3,100/sq mi)
• Density rank	Rankit 3rd
Time zone	UTC+7 (Thailand Staundart Time)
ISO 3166 code	TH-11
Website	http://www.samutprakan.go.th

Samut Prakan (Thai: สมุทรปราการ (help·info), IPA: [sāmùt prāːkāːn]) 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 Destrict o Samut Prakan province.

History

The province wis creatit durin the Ayutthaya period, wi its admeenistrative center locatit at Prapadaeng. It wis the sea port o Siam, an wis secured wi forts, toun moats an toun-walls. King Buddha Loetla Nabhalai stairtin the biggin o the new center at Samut Prakan in 1819, efter his predecessor King 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.

The giant three-heidit statue o the elephant god Erawan is in Samut Prakan.

Etymologie

In Thai the wird samut is frae Sanskrit, Samudra means ocean or sea an prakan means fortress.

Geografie

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.

Admeenistrative diveesions

The province is subdividit intae 6 destricts (amphoe). The destricts are further subdividit intae 50 subdestricts (tambon) an 396 veelages (muban). Thare are ane ceety (thesaban nakhon), three touns (thesaban mueang) an 13 subdestrict municipalities (thesaban tambon). For the naitional elections the province is dividit intae 3 votin destricts, ane eligible for three assemblyman an the ither twa each for twa assemblymen.