Samut Prakan Province

Samut Prakan (, ) 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.


 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
200px|right|Map o Samut Prakan wi the provinces numbered
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.
Mueang Samut Prakan
Bang Bo
Bang Phli<li>Phra Pradaeng
<li>Phra Samut Chedi
<li>Bang Sao Thong


Category:Provinces o Thailand
Category:Chao Phraya River
Category:Bay o Bangkok