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# Alavieska

Alavieska (Finnish pronunciation:) is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Oulu and is part of the Northern Ostrobothnia region. The municipality has a population of 2,440 (31 August 2024) and covers an area of 253.02 square kilometres (97.69 sq mi) of which 1.66 km$^2$ (0.64 sq mi) is water. The population density is 9.7 inhabitants per square kilometre (25/sq mi).
The municipality is unilingually Finnish. The word Ala means "lower", while the word Vieska is supposed to mean a "shallow ford".
The scythe theme of Alavieska's coat of arms refers to the extensive meadows in the municipality's territory. The coat of arms was designed by Kaj Kajander, and the Alavieska municipal council approved it at its meeting on September 20, 1960. The Ministry of the Interior approved the coat of arms for use on November 25 of the same year.

## Geography

Neighbouring municipalities are Kalajoki, Merijärvi, Oulainen and Ylivieska.

### Villages

In 1967, Alavieska had six legally recognized villages (henkikirjakylät):
* Alavieska
* Eteläranta
* Kähtävä
* Somero
* Taluskylä
* Käännänkylä

## Demographics
### Population

On the 31 August 2024, the municipality has a population of 2,440 (238th largest in Finland). The population density was 9.7/km$^2$. In 2020, the age structure of a population was: children (under 15 years old) — 19.3%; the working-age residents (15–64 years) — 55.8%; the elderly (65 years and older) — 24.9%. The average age was 43.8, above the national average of 43.4 and regional average of 40.8.

### Languages

The population by language (mother tongue) on 31 December 2022. Finnish (suomi), Swedish (ruotsi) and Sami (saame) count as indigenous languages as they have official status in the country. The rest of the languages are counted as foreign. For languages with fewer than 10 speakers, the figure is hidden by Tilastokeskus due to confidentiality reasons. Speakers of Finnish made up 99.0% of the population and speakers of Swedish made up 0.2%, while the share of speakers of foreign languages was 0.8%. Foreign nationals made up 0.6% of the total population.
| Language | Speakers in 2022 | Speakers in 2022 |
| Language | Quantity | Part (%) |
| Total population | 2,447 | 100.0 |
| Official languages | 2,425 | 99.1 |
| Finnish | 2,421 | 98.9 |
| Swedish | 4 | 0.2 |
| Foreign languages | 22 | 0.9 |
| Other | 22 | 0.9 |
Population by native language :
* Finnish (98.9%)  Swedish (0.2%)  other (0.9%)

### Urban areas

In 2019, out of the total population of 2,519, 1,281 people lived in the sole urban area, the Alavieska parish village, while lived 1,220 in sparsely populated areas and the coordinates of 18 people were unknown. This made Alavieska's degree of urbanization 51.2%.

## Economy

In 2018, 23.1% of the workforce of Alavieska worked in primary production (agriculture, forestry and fishing), 22.4% in secondary production (e.g. manufacturing, construction and infrastructure), and 52.9% in services. In 2019, the unemployment rate was 8.8%, and the share of pensioners in the population was 29.5%.

## Notable people

* Pentti Kahma, discus thrower
* Teemu Kattilakoski, skier
* Rauli Pudas, pole vaulter
# Kigeh Olya

Kigeh Olya (Persian: كيگه عليا, also Romanized as Kīgeh ʿOlyā; also known as Kīgeh) is a village in Mahru Rural District, Zaz va Mahru District, Aligudarz County, Lorestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 76, in 17 families.
# 2022 World Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 3000 metres

The men's 3000 metres at the 2022 World Athletics Indoor Championships took place on 18 and 20 March 2022.

## Results
### Heats

Qualification: First 4 in each heat (Q) and the next 3 fastest (q) advance to the Final
The heats were started on 18 March at 13:25.
| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Lamecha Girma | Ethiopia | 7:46.21 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | Jacob Krop | Kenya | 7:46.43 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Zouhair Talbi | Morocco | 7:48.03 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | Dillon Maggard | United States | 7:48.58 | Q |
| 5 | 1 | Jonas Raess | Switzerland | 7:49.31 | q |
| 6 | 1 | Baldvin Magnússon | Iceland | 7:49.34 | q |
| 7 | 2 | Selemon Barega | Ethiopia | 7:51.42 | Q |
| 8 | 2 | George Beamish | New Zealand | 7:51.71 | Q |
| 9 | 1 | Michael Somers | Belgium | 7:51.89 | q |
| 10 | 2 | Matthew Ramsden | Australia | 7:52.04 | Q, SB |
| 11 | 2 | Adel Mechaal | Spain | 7:52.27 | Q |
| 12 | 2 | Hicham Akankam | Morocco | 7:52.38 | |
| 13 | 2 | Elzan Bibić | Serbia | 7:52.78 | |
| 14 | 3 | Marc Scott | Great Britain | 7:54.90 | Q |
| 15 | 3 | Daniel Ebenyo | Kenya | 7:54.97 | Q |
| 16 | 3 | Isaac Kimeli | Belgium | 7:55.75 | Q |
| 17 | 2 | Sam Parsons | Germany | 7:55.97 | |
| 18 | 3 | Maximilian Thorwirth | Germany | 7:56.20 | Q |
| 19 | 2 | Tim Verbaandert | Netherlands | 7:56.61 | |
| 20 | 3 | Ossama Meslek | Italy | 7:57.24 | |
| 21 | 1 | John Gay | Canada | 7:57.56 | |
| 22 | 2 | Ahmed Jaziri | Tunisia | 7:58.44 | |
| 23 | 3 | Berihu Aregawi | Ethiopia | 7:58.59 | |
| 24 | 2 | Yassin Bouih | Italy | 7:58.63 | |
| 25 | 1 | Nursultan Keneshbekov | Kyrgyzstan | 7:59.39 | |
| 26 | 1 | Joel Ibler Lillesø | Denmark | 8:00.07 | |
| 27 | 2 | Ehab El-Sandali | Canada | 8:00.64 | |
| 28 | 3 | Jordan Gusman | Malta | 8:02.13 | |
| 29 | 3 | Mohamad Al-Garni | Qatar | 8:02.86 | |
| 30 | 3 | Darragh McElhinney | Ireland | 8:06.31 | |
| 31 | 3 | Adriaan Wildschutt | South Africa | 8:09.24 | |
| 32 | 1 | Jamaine Coleman | Great Britain | 8:12.76 | |
| 33 | 3 | Fernando Martínez | Mexico | 8:15.58 | |
| | 2 | Ali Moussa Barak | Chad | DNF | DNF |

### Final

The final was started on 20 March at 12:10.
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | Selemon Barega | Ethiopia | 7:41.38 | |
| | Lamecha Girma | Ethiopia | 7:41.63 | |
| | Marc Scott | Great Britain | 7:42.02 | SB |
| 4 | Daniel Ebenyo | Kenya | 7:42.97 | |
| 5 | Jacob Krop | Kenya | 7:43.26 | |
| 6 | Zouhair Talbi | Morocco | 7:43.45 | |
| 7 | Adel Mechaal | Spain | 7:43.60 | |
| 8 | Maximilian Thorwirth | Germany | 7:45.87 | |
| 9 | Dillon Maggard | United States | 7:46.18 | PB |
| 10 | George Beamish | New Zealand | 7:46.91 | |
| 11 | Jonas Raess | Switzerland | 7:47.28 | |
| 12 | Matthew Ramsden | Australia | 7:49.82 | SB |
| 13 | Michael Somers | Belgium | 7:51.65 | |
| 14 | Baldvin Magnússon | Iceland | 8:04.77 | |
| | Isaac Kimeli | Belgium | DNS | DNS |
# Ziad Abderrazzak Mohammad Aswad

Ziad Abdulrazzaq Mohammed Aswad (born July 27, 1952) is a Professor of Petroleum Engineering. He was Minister of Higher Education in the cabinet appointed by the Interim Iraq Governing Council in September 2003. He is a Sunni Muslim, and not associated with any political party, and formerly chaired Baghdad University's Department of petroleum engineering. He holds MSc degree in Petroleum Engineering (Well Testing) from the University of Southern California (United States) in 1976, and PhD degree in Petroleum Engineering (Optimization Techniques) from the University of Oklahoma (United States) in 1980. He worked with the University of Baghdad (Iraq) from 1980–2003, and with the University of Bahrain from 2004–2015. He retired in September 2015, and worked as private consulting / visiting Professor. His area of interest are; Multi-Phase Flow Through Pipes, Rheological Properties of Non-Newtonian Fluids, Enhanced Oil Recovery Methods, and Application of Optimization techniques.
# Mirza Rahim

Mirza Rahim (Persian: ميرزارحيم, also Romanized as Mīrzā Raḥīm) is a village in Ludab Rural District, Ludab District, Boyer-Ahmad County, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 239, in 53 families.
# Thomas Cottrell

Thomas Cottrell (August 10, 1815 – March 24, 1907) was a political figure in New Brunswick. He represented Charlotte County in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1874 to 1882 as a Liberal member.
He was born in Saint David, New Brunswick and educated there. In 1836, he married Annie Wyman. Cottrell was a captain in the local militia. He died in 1907 in Eureka, California.
# Steinberg, Schleswig-Holstein

Steinberg (Danish: Stenbjerg) is a municipality in the district of Schleswig-Flensburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
# Beach Park (water park)

Beach Park is a Brazilian water park and resort, located at the beach of Porto das Dunas in Aquiraz, Fortaleza. Spread out across an area of 170,000 m$^2$ (approximately 1.8 million ft$^2$), its aquatic park consists of 35,000 m$^2$ (376,700 ft$^2$). Beach Park receives over 1.7 million visitors annually and was elected the second best water park in the world in 2014.
The Beach Park complex is composed of the water park, a beach, and the resort.
Beach Park is affiliated with several national and international water parks, theme parks, tourism and entertainment associations. It is a member of the World Waterpark Association (WWA), the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions (IAAPA), the Brazilian Association of Restaurants and Entertainment Companies (ABRASEL), the Brazilian Association of the Hospitality Industry (ABIH), and the Aquiraz Convention & Visitors Bureau (ACVB).
Beach Park was one of the filming locations for the film O Noviço Rebelde (Brazilian adaptation of The Sound of Music).

## Accommodations

* Beach Park Suites Resort offers 182 seaside apartments.
* Oceani Beach Park Resort, located alongside the beach of Porto das Dunas, has 131 rooms.
* Beach Park Aqua Resort offers tennis and multi-purpose sports courts, a fitness center, kid's club, restaurant, pool bar and infinity pool.
* Beach Park Wellness Resort has 90 rooms designed for families.

## Extreme attractions

Constructed in 1997, the Insano previously held the Guinness world record for "World's Tallest Water Slide" at 135-feet tall. The slide held that record until the construction of Kilimanjaro at Aldeia das Águas Park Resort (formerly Águas Quentes Country Club) in Barra do Piraí, Rio de Janeiro, at 193 feet tall.
Arrepius, is a collection of ProSlide water slides with five different slides that occupy an area of approximately 7,000 m$^2$ (5347.37 ft$^2$). Its star attraction is The Skybox, a transparent capsule-type slide standing 25 meters tall.
Another notable attraction is the Vaikuntudo. Also a ProSlide attraction, it’s one of the largest funnel water slides in the world.

## Travel awards

2011
* "Best E-mail Campaign" - (WWA)
* " Best TV Commercial" - (WWA)
2012
* "Best Print Media"- (WWA)
2013
* "Best YouTube Campaign" - (WWA)
* "Best Radio Commercial"- (WWA)
* "Best Print Media"- (WWA)
Additional honors include:
* Quality WWA- (WWA)
* Industry Leadership WWA- (WWA)
* Best Park in the Country- (O Estado Newspaper)
* Best Theme Park- (Viagem e Turismo Magazine)
# Lesnoy Gorodok

Lesnoy Gorodok (Russian: Лесной Городок) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Odintsovsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia. Population: 7,231 (2010 Census); 5,098 (2002 Census); 4,297 (1989 Soviet census).
# Xeniades (butterfly)

Xeniades is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae.

## Species

Recognised species in the genus Xeniades include:
* Xeniades chalestra Hewitson, 1866
* Xeniades difficilis Draudt, [1924]
* Xeniades hermoda (Hewitson, 1870)
* Xeniades laureatus (Draudt, 1924)
* Xeniades orchamus (Cramer, 1777)
* Xeniades pteras Godman, 1900
* Xeniades quadrata (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869)
* Xeniades pteras (Hewitson, 1870)
* Xeniades putumayo (Constantino and Salazar, 2013)
* Xeniades rinda (Evans, 1955)
* Xeniades victoria Evans, [1955]
# Volobuyevka, Kursky District, Kursk Oblast

Volobuyevka (Russian: Волобуевка) is a rural locality (Russian: деревня, lit. 'village') in Brezhnevsky Selsoviet Rural Settlement, Kursky District, Kursk Oblast, Russia. Population: 3 (2010 Census); 8 (2002 Census);

## Geography

The village is located in the Bolshaya Kuritsa River basin (a right tributary of the Seym River), 88 km from the Russia–Ukraine border, 27 km north-west of Kursk, 13.5 km from the selsoviet center – Verkhnekasinovo.

### Climate

Volobuyevka has a warm-summer humid continental climate (Dfb in the Köppen climate classification).

## Transport

Volobuyevka is located 11 km from the federal route M-2 Crimea Highway (a part of the European route E105), 4 km from the road of intermunicipal significance 38H-182 ("Crimea Highway" – Verkhnyaya Medveditsa – Razinkovo), 28 km from the nearest railway halt Bukreyevka (railway line Oryol – Kursk).
The rural locality is situated 31.5 km from Kursk Vostochny Airport, 144 km from Belgorod International Airport and 231 km from Voronezh Peter the Great Airport.
# Roman Catholic Diocese of Guarapuava

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Guarapuava (Latin: Dioecesis Guarapuavensis) is a diocese located in the city of Guarapuava in the ecclesiastical province of Curitiba in Brazil.

## History

* December 16, 1965: Established as Diocese of Guarapuava from the Diocese of Campo Mourão, Diocese of Ponta Grossa and Diocese of Toledo

## Bishops

* Bishops of Guarapuava (Roman rite)
** Bishop Friedrich Helmel, S.V.D. (1966.03.19 – 1986.09.27)
** Bishop Albano Bortoletto Cavallin (1986.10.24 – 1992.03.11), appointed Archbishop of Londrina, Parana
** Bishop Giovanni Zerbini, S.D.B. (1995.01.11 – 2003.07.02)
** Bishop Antônio Wagner da Silva, S.C.J. (2003.07.02 – 2020.05.06)
** Bishop Amilton Manoel da Silva, C.P. (2020.05.06 - present)

### Coadjutor bishop

* Antônio Wagner da Silva, S.C.I. (2000-2003)
# Golineh Atai

Golineh Atai (Persian: گلینه عطایی Listen; born December 8, 1974, in Tehran) is a German journalist and TV-correspondent. She is known in particular as a Russia expert.

## Life

Atai was born in Iran in 1974, and in 1980 at the age of five, she moved with her parents to Germany, growing up in Hoffenheim. After Abitur at the Wilhelmi High school in Sinsheim, she completed her studies at the Heidelberg University (1993–2000) with a Master of Science in Romance Studies, Politology and Iranian Studies and then became a Journalist.
Atai then completed a traineeship at Südwestrundfunk and was responsible for reporting from Rhineland-Palatinate as a TV reporter at the Mainz city. From 2006 to 2008, she worked for ARD (broadcaster) as a correspondent in Cairo. From 2010 to 2011, Atai was Contributing editorin at the ARD morning show. From December 2011, she worked as an editor and reporter at the Review of the Day for WDR in Cologne. From 2013 to 2018, she worked for ARD as a correspondent in Moscow. During the Euromaidan in Ukraine, Atai reported from Kyiv for ARD. In a contribution for the Weltspiegel she documented manipulative practices of Russian and Ukrainian television stations.
On January 1, 2022, she moved to ZDF and took over as head of the studio in Cairo. At the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, she worked as an on-site correspondent for the ZDF Sport studio.

## Awards

* 2005: Research grant from the Otto Brenner Foundation for critical journalism for the project Foreign Adoptions in the Global Children's Market.
* 2007: Nomination for the Adolf Grimme Award in the category Information and Culture
* 2008: Nomination for the Reemtsma Liberty Award
* 2010: Media Award "Children's Rights in One World" of Kindernothilfe for "Suche Kind, zahle bar – Die Adoptionslobby" (Search child, pay cash – The adoption lobby) by WDR
* 2014: Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Prize for Television Journalism
* 2014: Journalist of the Year by Medium Magazin for her "outstanding reporting in the debate on the Ukraine crisis, which has been going on for more than a year."
* 2015: Peter Scholl Latour Prize for her Weltspiegel feature Ukraine: Quo vadis?
* 2023: Marie Juchacz Women's Award for gender equality through credible, balanced foreign journalism from Russia, Ukraine, Iran, and the Arab world.
* 2023: Nomination for the Grimme-Preis for its reporting from the Arab region.

## Works

* The truth is the enemy – Why Russia is so different (In German: Die Wahrheit ist der Feind – Warum Russland so anders ist), Rowohlt Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-7371-0061-8.
* Iran – Freedom is Female (In German: Iran – Die Freiheit ist weiblich. Rowohlt, Berlin 2021, ISBN 978-3-7371-0118-9
# Parcieux

Parcieux (French pronunciation:) is a commune in the traditional district of Dombes, Ain department, in eastern France. It lies a few kilometres north of Lyon.

## Population

Its inhabitants are known as Parcevins.
# Ghero

Ghero (Nepali: घेरो) is a Nepali folk drama produced by Indreni Theater that presents the practice of superstition in Nepali society, particularly in Gandaki Pradesh. The play utilizes the Balan style and storytelling from hymns, which are strong aspects of the dialect and love drama of Gandaki Pradesh. It was first staged at Youth Creation Theater in November 2018 and has been performed internationally in various festivals, including the Rara National Drama Festival and Pokhara International Drama Festival. It has been staged in Nepal, India, Egypt, South Korea and Germany.
The play is written by Kedar Nath Paudel and directed by Kapil Sharma.
# Nando (name)

Nando is a name for males - often in Switzerland (Graubünden) and Italy. It is often a short form (hypocorism) of Fernando.
Other forms are Ferdinand (male; Germanic) and Nándor (male; Hungarian) and Nanna/Nanda/Nande (female).

## Etymology

Germanic: nantha → bold, reckless, brave

## People named Nando

* Fernando García Puchades (born 1994) Spanish footballer commonly known as Nando
* Nando (footballer, born May 1967), Spanish footballer Fernando Martínez Perales
* Nando (footballer, born October 1967), Spanish footballer Fernando Muñoz García
* Nando (Mozambican footballer) (1982–2007), Mozambican footballer Fernando Paulo Matola
* Fernando Altimani (1893–1963), Italian racewalker
* Nandcoomar Nando Bodha (born 1954), Mauritian politician, former Minister of Tourism & Leisure and former Minister of Agriculture
* Fernando Nando Bruno (1895–1963), Italian actor
* Fernando Nando Cicero (1931–1995), Italian film director, screenwriter and actor
* Fernando Manuel Co (born 1973), Bissau-Guinean former footballer
* Nando de Colo (born 1987), French basketball player
* Nando de Freitas, Zimbabwean computer scientist and Oxford professor
* Fernando García Puchades (born 1994), Spanish footballer commonly known as Nando
* Nando Gatti (1927–?), South African lawn bowler
* Ferdinando Gentile (born 1967), Italian former basketball player
* Fernando Gómez Herrera (born 1984), Spanish footballer commonly known as Nando
* Fernando González Valenciaga (1921–1988), Spanish footballer better known as Nando
* Ferdinando Minoia (1884–1940), Italian racing driver
* Fernando Nando Maria Neves (born 1978), Cape Verdean footballer
* Fernando Nando Parrado (born 1949), Uruguayan plane crash survivor
* Fernando Orsi (born 1959), Italian football manager and former goalkeeper
* Fernando Quesada (born 1994), Spanish footballer
* Nando Rafael (born 1984), Angolan footballer
* Nando Reis (born 1963), Brazilian musician born José Fernando Gomes dos Reis
* Miguel Vera (1932–1952), United States Army soldier posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor
* Nando Wormgoor (born 1992), Dutch footballer
* Nando Yosu (1939–2016), Spanish footballer Fernando Trío Zabala
* Nando Oswald (2002-present), Swiss person of public interest
# Vimolj pri Predgradu

Vimolj pri Predgradu (pronounced; German: Widerzug) is a small settlement in the Municipality of Kočevje in southern Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola and is now included in the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region.

## Name

The name of the settlement was changed from Vimolj to Vimolj pri Predgradu in 1953.
# Cribrarula cribraria

Cribrarula cribraria, the 'sieve/tan and white cowry', is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.

## Description

The mantle of this cowry is translucent bright orange-red. Cribrarula cribraria is one of the most recognizable cowries. The shells reach 10–44 millimetres (0.39–1.73 in) of length. These shells are smooth, their basic coloration is pale brown or fawn, with several circular white spots. The edges of the shell are white, as is the flat base.

## Distribution

This species and its subspecies are distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along Aldabra, Chagos, the Comores, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, the Seychelles and Tanzania, and in Australia, Solomon Islands, Western Samoa, Indonesia, Philippines, Taiwan, Fiji, and Vanuatu.

## Habitat

This species can be encountered in intertidal and shallow waters at 5–25 metres (16–82 ft) of depth, mainly underneath coral rubble and rocks. They mostly feed at night on encrusting sponges.

## Subspecies

The following subspecies are recognized :
* Cribrarula cribraria australiensis Lorenz, 2002
* Cribrarula cribraria comma (Perry, 1811)
* Cribrarula cribraria cribraria (Linnaeus, 1758)
# Moutalaske

Moutalaske (Greek: Μουταλάσκη, romanized: Moutalaskē) was a town of ancient Cappadocia, inhabited in Byzantine times. It was the birthplace of both Saint Sabas (439) and Saint Meletios (c. 1035). The former, during a visit to emperor Anastasios I in Constantinople, sent money back to his home village in Moutalaske to fund the construction of a church dedicated to the Saints Cosmas and Damian.
Its site is located near Talas, Asiatic Turkey, about 6 km east of Kayseri, at the steep escarpment of a high plateau 200 m above the Kayseri basin. There are traces of a troglodyte settlement here including a monastery dedicated to Panagia (its naos and part of its choir were preserved in the vineyards of Nea Moutalaske around 1900) and, according to Hans Rott, two cave chapels dedicated to Saints Georgios and Koimesis.
# Hat Yai Junction railway station

Hat Yai Junction is an international railway junction and a Class 1 railway station for the State Railway of Thailand in the center of Hat Yai City, Songkhla Province, Thailand. The station is located 928.585 km (577.0 mi) from Bangkok's Thon Buri railway station and serves as a junction for the mainline Southern Line towards Pattani, Yala and Sungai Kolok (border point with Malaysia at Rantau Panjang) and Padang Besar, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore Line (border point with Malaysia at Padang Besar). The station yard is the location of a large locomotive depot: Hat Yai Depot, the southernmost railway depot in Thailand.
Hat Yai Junction encouraged Hat Yai's economic boom and growth, making the city larger than the province's capital Songkhla.

## History

The original station was known as U-Taphao Junction and was located to the north of the current station. The U-Taphao station also served as a junction for the Hat Yai–Songkhla Line. However, the junction often got hit by floods and was moved to the present location at Hat Yai Junction. U-Tapao was reduced to a halt and eventually closed. In 1978, the line from Hat Yai to Songkhla City closed down, leaving the junction to be only for the mainline to Sungai-Kolok and the branch to Butterworth.
Since the start of 2013, there have been plans to rebuild the line back to Songkhla City.

## Terrorist attacks

Hat Yai Junction has been a target of multiple terrorist attacks during the South Thailand insurgency.
* 29 June 1977 - Bomb, 14 injured
* 7 August 1977 - Bomb on Hat Yai–Bangkok Train
* 1989 - 2 Bombs, 7 dead
* 7 May 2001 - Bomb, 4 fatalities including a 5-year-old boy.

## Pop culture

Hat Yai Junction railway station is the setting of at least two Thai pop songs, including (Thai: สัญญาใจ; RTGS: sanya jai) 'Love Promise') by Narathip Kanchanawat of Chatree band, in 1980, and has been covered by many artists since then. The second is the Thai protest song (phleng phuea chiwit), titled 'Promise at Hat Yai' (Thai: คำสัญญาที่หาดใหญ่; RTGS: kam sanya thi hat yai) by Jew Khonkhianphleng in 1994.

## Gallery

* Platforms
* A historical locomotive on display at the station.