Samut Prakan province จังหวัดสมุทรปราการ | |
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| Other transcription(s) | |
| • Chinese | 北榄 Pāk-năm(TeochewPeng'im) |
 .jpg) From top: Samut Prakarn Tower, Wat Phra Samut Chedi, Phi Sua Samut Fort | |
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| Nicknames: Pak Nam City (Thai: เมืองปากน้ำ) Prakan City (Thai: เมืองปราการ) | |
| Motto: ป้อมยุทธนาวี พระเจดีย์กลางน้ำ ฟาร์มจระเข้ใหญ่ งามวิไลเมืองโบราณ สงกรานต์พระประแดง ปลาสลิดแห้งรสดี ประเพณีรับบัว ครบถ้วนทั่วอุตสาหกรรม ("The naval fort. Phra Chedi surrounded by water. Large crocodile farm. Beautiful Mueang Boran. The Songkran festival of Phra Pradaeng. Tasty dried gourami fish. Lotus receiving festival. Complete in industry.") | |
 Map of Thailand highlighting Samut Prakan province | |
| Country |  Thailand |
| Capital | Samut Prakan |
| Government | |
| • Governor | Supphamit Chinnasri |
| Area | |
• Total | 947 km2 (366 sq mi) |
| • Rank | 72nd |
| Population (2024)[2] | |
• Total |  1,380,826 |
| • Rank | 12th |
| • Density | 1,458/km2 (3,780/sq mi) |
| • Rank | 3rd |
| Human Achievement Index | |
| • HAI (2022) | 0.6297 "somewhat low" Ranked 53rd |
| GDP | |
| • Total | baht 717 billion (US$25.7 billion) (2019) |
| Time zone | UTC+07:00 (ICT) |
| Postal code | 10xxx |
| Calling code | 02 |
| ISO 3166 code | TH-11 |
| Website | samutprakan |
Samut Prakan Provincial Administrative Organization องค์การบริหารส่วนจังหวัดสมุทรปราการ | |
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 Interactive map of Samut Prakan Provincial Administrative Organization | |
| Government | |
| • Type | Local administrative divisions |
| • Body | Samut Prakan Provincial Administrative Organization |
| • President | Sunthorn Pansaengthong |
| Website | samutprakan-pao |
Samut Prakan province (Thai:จังหวัดสมุทรปราการ,pronounced[t͡ɕāŋ.wàt̚sàmùtprāːkāːn]ⓘ,RTGS: changwat samutprakan, sometimes renderedSamutprakan andSamutprakarn) is one of the centralprovinces ofThailand, established on 9 May 1946 by theAct Establishing Changwat Samut Prakan, Changwat Nonthaburi, Changwat Samut Sakhon and Changwat Nakhon Nayok, Buddhist Era 2489 (1946).[5]
It is a part of theBangkok Metropolitan Region. Neighbouring provinces areBangkok, to the north and west, andChachoengsao to the east. Samut Prakan was previously once home to a Dutch trading post who referred to the area as New Amsterdam.[citation needed]Suvarnabhumi Airport is inBang Phli district of Samut Prakan province as well as the districts ofBang Kapi,Lat Krabang, andPrawet in neighbouringBangkok city.
The province was created during the era of theAyutthaya Kingdom, with its administrative centre at Prapadaeng. It was the sea port of Siam, and was secured with forts, town moats, and town walls. KingRama II started building the new centre at Samut Prakan in 1819, after his predecessor KingTaksin had abandoned the town fortifications. Altogether six forts were built on both sides of theChao Phraya River, and on an island in the river thepagoda, Phra Samut Chedi, was erected. These were involved in thePaknam incident of 13 July 1893, which ended theFranco-Siamese conflict with a French naval blockade of Bangkok. Of the original six forts only two still exist today, Phi Sua Samut and Phra Chulachomklao.
InThai the wordsamut is fromSanskrit,samudra, meaning 'ocean' or 'sea', and the wordprakan is from Sanskrit,prākāra, meaning 'fortress', 'walls', or 'stronghold'.
Samut Prakan lies at the mouth of the Chao Phraya River on theGulf of Thailand. Thus the province is also sometimes calledPak Nam (ปากน้ำ), Thai for 'mouth of river'. The part of the province on the west side of the river consists mostly of rice paddies and shrimp farms as well asmangrove forests, while the eastern part is the urban centre, including industrial factories. It is part of the Bangkok metropolis. The urbanization on both sides of the provincial boundary is identical. The total forest area is 28 km2 (11 sq mi) or 3 percent of provincial area.[6] The province has a coastline of approximately 47.2 kilometres.Samut Prakan is the site of a skirmish between French and Siamese forces on 13 July 1893, subsequently referred to as thePaknam Incident. This battle resulted in a French victory and the signing of the Franco-Siamese Treaty of 3 October 1893 which ceded territory east of theMekong River to France, territory that forms much of modernLaos.[7]
Theprovincial seal shows the temple Phra Samut Chedi, the most important site of Buddhist worship in the province.
Theprovincial tree isThespesia populnea. The provincial aquatic life is thesnakeskin gourami (Trichopodus pectoralis), as it is a vital commercial fish of Samut Prakan. It is widely cultivated and has been famous for a long time, especially inBang Bo.
The province is divided into six districts (amphoes). The districts are further subdivided into 50 subdistricts (tambons) and 396 villages (mubans).
As of 13 May 2020, there are: one Samut Prakan Provincial Administrative Organization - PAO (ongkan borihan suan changwat) and twenty-two municipal (thesaban) areas in the province. The capital Samut Prakan has city (thesaban nakhon) status. Further seven have town (thesaban mueang) status and fourteen subdistrict municipalities (thesaban tambon).[8]
| City municipality | Population | ||
| 1 | Samut Prakan[9] | 50,843 |
| Town municipalities | Population | 4 | Praekkasa Mai[10] | 48,146 | |
| 1 | Puchao Samingphrai[11][12] | 73,232 | 5 | Pak Nam Samut Prakan[13] | 35,050 |
| 2 | Lat Luang[14] | 71,882 | 6 | Phraekkasa[15] | 27,207 |
| 3 | Bang Kaeo[16] | 59,548 | 7 | Phra Pradaeng[17] | 9,338 |
| Subdistrict municipalities | Population | ||||
| 1 | Bang Pu[18] | 120,127 | 8 | Laem Fapha[18] | 21,216 |
| 2 | Bang Mueang[18] | 100,598 | 9 | Phra Samut Chedi[18] | 12,391 |
| 3 | Dan Samrong[18] | 55,488 | 10 | Bang Phli[18] | 12,068 |
| 4 | Phraekkasa[18] | 36,323 | 11 | Khlong Dan[18] | 11,522 |
| 5 | Samrong Nuea[19] | 30,498 | 12 | Bang Phli Noi[20] | 9,155 |
| 6 | Thepharak[21] | 22,312 | 13 | Bang Bo[18] | 6,469 |
| 7 | Bang Sao Thong[18] | 22,243 | 14 | Khlong Suan[18] | 3,164 |
The non-municipal areas are administered by 26 Subdistrict Administrative Organizations (SAO) (ongkan borihan suan tambon).[22]
| Municipalities | Communities | Groups | |
| Puchao Samingphrai[23] | 62 | 5 | |
| Lat Luang[24] | 42 | 3 | |
| Bang Kaeo[25] | 16 | – | |
| Pak Nam[26] | 24 | – | |
| Bang Pu[27] | 46 | 4 | |
| Bang Sao Thong[28] | 17 | – | |
| Bang Bo[29] | 10 | – | |
| Khlong Suan[30] | 10 | – |
Fornational elections, the province is divided into three voting districts, one represented by three assemblymen and the other two each by two assemblymen.
Suvarnabhumi Airport (RTGS: Suwannaphum;Thai pronunciation:[sù.wān.ná.pʰūːm][31]) (IATA:BKK,ICAO:VTBS), also known as (New) Bangkok International Airport, is one of twointernational airports servingBangkok. The other one isDon Mueang International Airport.[32][33] Suvarnabhumi covers an area of 3,240 hectares (8,000 acres).
The airport is on what had formerly been known as Nong Nguhao (Cobra Swamp) inRacha Thewa inBang Phli, Samut Prakan province, about 25 kilometres (16 mi) east of downtown Bangkok. The terminal building was designed byHelmut Jahn of Murphy / Jahn Architects. It was constructed primarily byITO Joint Venture. The airport has the world's tallest free-standingcontrol tower (132.2 metres or 434 feet), and the world's fourth largest single-buildingairport terminal, (563,000 square metres or 6,060,000 square feet).
Suvarnabhumi is thetwentieth busiest airport in the world, thesixth busiest airport in Asia, and thebusiest in the country, handling 63 million passengers in 2018,[34] and is also amajor air cargo hub, with a total of 95 airlines. On social networks, Suvarnabhumi was the world's most popular site for takingInstagram photographs in 2012.[35]
The airport inherited the airport code, BKK, fromDon Mueang after the older airport ceased international commercial flights.Motorway 7 connects the airport, Bangkok, and the heavily industrialeastern seaboard of Thailand, where most export manufacturing takes place.
TheBhumibol Bridge (Thai:สะพานภูมิพล), also known as the Industrial Ring Road Bridge (Thai:สะพานวงแหวนอุตสาหกรรม) is part of the 13 km long Industrial Ring Road connecting southernBangkok with Samut Prakan province. The bridge crosses the Chao Phraya River twice, with twocable-stayed spans of lengths of 702 m and 582 m supported by two diamond-shaped pylons 173 m and 164 m high. Where the two spans meet, another road rises to join them at a free-flowing interchange suspended 50 metres above the ground.
The bridge opened for traffic on 20 September 2006, before the official opening date of 5 December 2006. It is part of the Bangkok Industrial Ring Road, a royal scheme initiated by KingBhumibol Adulyadej that aims to solve traffic problems within Bangkok and surrounding areas, especially the industrial area aroundKhlong Toei Port, Southern Bangkok, and Samut Prakan province.
According to tradition, all the bridges over the Chao Phraya in Bangkok are named after a member of the royal family.[citation needed] In October 2009, it was announced that both bridges would be named after KingBhumibol Adulyadej,[36] with the northern bridge officially named "Bhumibol 1 Bridge" and the southern bridge "Bhumibol 2 Bridge".[37]
The structure of the Bhumibol Bridge consists of two parts:
Nissan has two factories in the district, together employing 4,000 workers, 30% of them contract workers. Nissan-Thailand has an annual production capacity of 295,000 vehicles, making the Navara, Teana, Terra, Note, Almera, March, Sylphy and X-Trail models. Nissan plans to make 190,000 vehicles by the end of itsfiscal year 2019, ending next March 2020. Roughly 120,000-130,000 units arepickup trucks, the remainder passenger cars.[38]Nissan produceshybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) based on its e-Power technology and batteries for electric vehicles at a plant inBang Sao Thong district. It has a production capacity of 370,000 vehicles a year.[39]
Thai Theparos Public Co., Ltd., a leading Thai condiment manufacturer, has its headquarters in Thai Ban subdistrict,Mueang Samut Prakan district.[40]
Samut Prakan's main hospital isSamut Prakan Hospital, a regional hospital operated by theMinistry of Public Health. Samut Prakan is also the location ofChakri Naruebodindra Medical Institute, a university hospital operated by theFaculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University.
| Health | Education | Employment | Income |
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| 3 | 9 | 21 | 2 |
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| 75 | 51 | 14 | 77 |
| Province Samut Prakan, with an HAI 2022 value of 0.6297 is "somewhat low", occupies place 53 in the ranking. | |||
Since 2003, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Thailand has tracked progress on human development at sub-national level using theHuman achievement index (HAI), a composite index covering eight key areas of human development. National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB) has taken over this task since 2017.[3]
| Rank | Classification |
| 1 - 13 | "high" |
| 14 - 29 | "somewhat high" |
| 30 - 45 | "average" |
| 46 - 61 | "somewhat low" |
| 62 - 77 | "low" |
| Map of provinces and HAI 2022 rankings |
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