Samut Prakan Province
Samut Prakan สมุทรปราการ | |
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 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[eedit | eedit soorce]
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.
Etymologie[eedit | eedit soorce]
In Thai the wird samut is frae Sanskrit, Samudra means ocean or sea an prakan means fortress.
Geografie[eedit | eedit soorce]
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[eedit | eedit soorce]
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.
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