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[[Image:Songkhla Laem Samila.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Laem Samila beach]]
'''Songkhla''' ({{lang-th|สงขลา}}, {{IPA-th|sǒŋ.kʰlǎː|pron}}) is a ceety (''[[thesaban nakhon]]'') in the [[Songkhla Province]] o soothren [[Thailand]], near the mairch wi [[Malaysie]]. As o 2006 it haed a population o 75,048.  The ceety is a pairt o [[Greater Hatyai-Songkhla Metropolitan Aurie]].

Despite bein smawer than the neighborin ceety [[Hat Yai]], Songkhla is the caipital o Songkhla Province as well as the [[Amphoe Mueang Songkhla|Mueang Songkhla destrict]] (Songkhla Toun destrict).

Due tae its location at the openin o the big [[Songkhla lake]] tae the [[Gulf o Thailand]], Songkhla is a fishin toun an an' a' an important [[harbour]].  It is the major seaport on the east side o the [[Isthmus o Kra]].

Songkhla wis whiles kent as '''Singgora''' or '''Singora''' (Ceety o [[Lion]]s).
[[Image:Naga Head.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Naga Heid at Sang Thale Pairk, Laem Son On, Songkhla Ceety]]

==History==
On December 8, 1941, oors efter the bombin o [[Attack on Pearl Harbor|Pearl Harbor]], the [[Imperial Japanese Airmy]] [[Japanese Invasion o Thailand|landit here]] an proceedit sooth towards [[Perlis]] an [[Penang]] as pairt o the [[Battle o Malaya|Malayan campaign]] which culminatit in the [[Battle o Singapore|captur o Singapore]].

Synee 2003 Songhkla haes been affectit bi the Muslim haurd-line militant insurgency in neighborin [[Narathiwat]], [[Pattani]], an [[Yala]].<ref>[http://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/9129/signs-of-new-hope-in-south Saritdet Marukatat, ''Signs of new hope in South'']</ref>

==Population==
Awtho the majority is Buddhist, thare is a lairge proportion o Muslims in Songkhla, especially in the rural auries fringin the Malaysian border. Thir Muslims speak a [[Yawi leid|Malay-based leid]] which haes some Thai influence in the form o wirds borraed frae the [[Thai leid]].<ref>[http://books.google.co.th/books?id=S5q7qxi5LBgC&pg=PA79&lpg=PA79&dq=Songkhla+muslim+population&source=bl&ots=tm1AuUP98x&sig=9CK9zgQToxjJkqETGIlsrdmyt9M&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result Moshe Yegar, ''Between Integration and Secession'']</ref>

Songkhla's destrict (Amphoe) haes five '''Tambon Administrative Organizations''' (องค์การบริหารส่วนตำบล). Songkhla toun takes up the whole o Bo Yang diveesion.
{|
! No.
! Name
! Thai
! Veelages
! Inhab.
|-
||1.||Bo Yang||{{lang|th|บ่อยาง}}||-||74,875||
|-
||2.||Khao Rup Chang||{{lang|th|เขารูปช้าง}}||10||38,662||
|-
||3.||Ko Taeo||{{lang|th|เกาะแต้ว}}||9||10,608||
|-
||4.||Phawong||{{lang|th|พะวง}}||8||24,130||
|-
||5.||Thung Wang||{{lang|th|ทุ่งหวัง}}||10||10,343||
|-
||6.||Ko Yo||{{lang|th|เกาะยอ}}||9||4,454||
|}

==Notes==
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==Freemit airtins==
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*http://www.songkhlamun.org {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170621062938/http://www.songkhlamun.org/ |date=2017-06-21 }} Wabsteid o ceety {{th icon}}

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[[Category:Songkhla Province]]
[[Category:Populatit places in Thailand]]
[[Category:Songkhla Lake]]