Samut Prakan province

province of Thailand
province in Thailand
Samut Prakan province ( Thai : จังหวัดสมุทรปราการ, pronounced [ sāmùt prāːkāːn ] ( ) ) Samut Prakan or Samutprakarn is one of the central provinces ( changwat ) of Thailand, established by the Act Establishing Changwat Samut Prakan, Changwat Nonthaburi, Changwat Samut Sakhon and Changwat Nakhon Nayok, Buddhist Era 2489 ( 1946 ), which came into violence 9 May 1946. [ 4 ] It is separate of the Bangkok Metropolitan Region. Neighbouring provinces are Bangkok, to the north and west, and Chachoengsao to the east.

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Suvarnabhumi Airport is in the Bang Phli District of Samut Prakan province equally well as the districts of Prawet, Bang Kapi and Lat Krabang in neighbouring Bangkok city .

history [edit ]

The province was created during the era of the Ayutthaya Kingdom, with its administrative kernel at Prapadaeng. It was the ocean interface of Siam, and was secured with forts, town moats, and town walls. King Rama II started building the fresh center at Samut Prakan in 1819, after his predecessor King Taksin had abandoned the town fortifications. raw six forts were built on both sides of the Chao Phraya River, and on an island in the river the pagoda, Phra Samut Chedi, was erected. These were involved in the Paknam incident of 13 July 1893, which ended the Franco-Siamese War with a french naval blockade of Bangkok. Of the original six forts lone two placid exist nowadays, Phi Sua Samut and Phra Chulachomklao. In 1942, there was an act that included Phra Nakhon, Thonburi, Samut Prakan and Nonthaburi together, and in 1943 there is a newly government regulation collapsed Samut Prakan with Phra Nakhon. On May 9, 1946, Samut Prakan was separated from Phra Nakhon until today .

toponymy [edit ]

In Thai the bible samut is from Sanskrit, samudra, meaning ‘ocean ‘ or ‘sea ‘, and the word prakan is from Sanskrit, prākāra, meaning ‘fortress ‘, ‘walls ‘, or ‘stronghold ‘ .

geography [edit ]

Samut Prakan lies at the mouth of the Chao Phraya River on the Gulf of Thailand. Thus the state is besides sometimes called Pak Nam ( ปากน้ำ ), Thai for ‘mouth of river ‘. The part of the state on the west side of the river consists largely of rice paddies and runt farms arsenic well as mangrove forests, while the eastern contribution is the urban center, including industrial factories. It is contribution of the Bangkok city. The urbanization on both sides of the peasant limit is identical. The sum forest area is 28 km2 ( 11 sq security service ) or 3 percentage of provincial area. [ 5 ] The state has a coastline of approximately 47.2 kilometres. Samut Prakan is the site of a brush between French and thai forces on 13 July 1893, subsequently referred to as the Paknam Incident. This conflict resulted in a french victory and the sign of the Franco-Siamese Treaty of 3 October 1893 which ceded territory east of the Mekong River to France, territory that forms much of modern Laos. [ 6 ]

Symbols [edit ]

The peasant seal shows the temple Phra Samut Chedi, the most crucial site of Buddhist worship in the province. The provincial tree is Thespesia populnea .

administrative divisions [edit ]

Map of Samut Prakan state with districts

City municipalities ( thesaban nakhon )

Town municipalities ( thesaban mueang )

Subdistrict municipalities ( thesaban tambon )

provincial government [edit ]

The province is divided into six districts ( amphoes ). The districts are far subdivided into 50 subdistricts ( tambons ) and 396 villages ( mubans ) .

local government [edit ]

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 ) condition. further seven have town ( thesaban mueang ) status and fourteen subdistrict municipalities ( thesaban tambon ). [ 2 ]

	City municipality	people
1	Samut Prakan.[7]	50,843

	Subdistrict mun.	people
1	Bang Pu[16]	120,127	8	Laem Fapha[16]	21,216
2	Bang Mueang[16]	100,598	9	Phra Samut Chedi[16]	12,391
3	Dan Samrong[16]	55,488	10	Bang Phli[16]	12,068
4	Phraekkasa[16]	36,323	11	Khlong Dan[16]	11,522
5	Samrong Nuea[17]	30,498	12	Bang Phli Noi[18]	9,155
6	Thepharak[19]	22,312	13	Bang Bo[16]	6,469
7	Bang Sao Thong[16]	22,243	14	Khlong Suan[16]	3,164

The non-municipal areas are administered by 26 Subdistrict Administrative
Organizations ( SAO ) ( ongkan borihan suan tambon ). [ 20 ]

Municipalities	Communities	Groups
Puchao Samingphrai[21]	62	5
Lat Luang[22]	42	3
ฺBang Kaeo[23]	16	–
Pak Nam[24]	24	–
Bang Pu[25]	46	4
Bang Sao Thong[26]	17	–
Bang Bo[27]	10	–
Khlong Suan[28]	10	–

For national elections the province is divided into three voting districts,
one represented by three assemblymen and the other two each by two assemblymen.

Suvarnabhumi Airport [edit ]

Suvarnabhumi Airport Suvarnabhumi Airport ( RTGS : Suwannaphum ; Thai pronunciation : [ sù.wān.ná.pʰūːm ] [ 29 ] ) ( IATA : BKK, ICAO : VTBS ), besides known as ( New ) Bangkok International Airport, is one of two external airports serving Bangkok. The other one is Don Mueang International Airport. [ 30 ] [ 31 ] Suvarnabhumi covers an area of 3,240 hectares ( 8,000 acres ). The airport is on what had once been known as Nong Nguhao ( Cobra Swamp ) in Racha Thewa in Bang Phli, Samut Prakan state, about 25 kilometres ( 16 mile ) east of downtown Bangkok. The terminal build was designed by Helmut Jahn of Murphy / Jahn Architects. It was constructed chiefly by ITO JV. The airport has the earth ‘s tall free-standing control tugboat ( 132.2 metres or 434 feet ), and the world ‘s fourth largest single-building airport terminal, ( 563,000 square metres or 6,060,000 feather feet ). Suvarnabhumi is the twentieth busiest airport in the world, one-sixth busiest airport in Asia, and the busiest in the country, handling 63 million passengers in 2018, [ 32 ] and is besides a major breeze cargo hub, with a sum of 95 airlines. On social networks, Suvarnabhumi was the universe ‘s most popular site for taking Instagram photograph in 2012. [ 33 ] The airport inherited the airport code, BKK, from Don Mueang after the older airport ceased international commercial flights. Motorway 7 connects the airport, Bangkok, and the heavily industrial easterly seaside of Thailand, where most export manufacturing takes set .

Bhumibol Bridge [edit ]

Bang Krachao The Bhumibol Bridge ( Thai : สะพานภูมิพล ), besides known as the Industrial Ring Road Bridge ( Thai : สะพานวงแหวนอุตสาหกรรม ) is separate of the 13 km long Industrial Ring Road connecting southerly Bangkok with Samut Prakan state. The bridge crosses the Chao Phraya River twice, with two cable-stayed spans of lengths of 702 m and 582 m supported by two diamond-shaped pylons 173 m and 164 thousand high. Where the two spans meet, another road rises to join them at a free-flowing interchange suspended 50 metres above the earth. The bridge opened for traffic on 20 September 2006, before the official opening date of 5 December 2006. It is depart of the Bangkok Industrial Ring Road, a royal scheme initiated by King Bhumibol Adulyadej that aims to solve dealings problems within Bangkok and surrounding areas, specially the industrial area around Khlong Toei Port, Southern Bangkok, and Samut Prakan province. According to custom, 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 King Bhumibol Adulyadej, [ 34 ] with the northerly bridge officially named “ Bhumibol 1 Bridge ” and the southerly bridge “ Bhumibol 2 Bridge ”. [ 35 ] The social organization of the Bhumibol Bridge consists of two parts :

Bhumibol Bridge 1 crosses the northern part of Chao Praya River connecting Yan Nawa District, Bangkok and Song Khanong District, Samut Prakan. It is a cable-stayed bridge with seven lanes together with two high pillars. The structure is reinforced concrete 50 m above the river to enable the passage of ships.
Bhumibol Bridge 2 is the one across the southern part of Chao Praya River connecting Song Khanong District and Bang Ya Phraek District. The structure is similar to Bhumibol Bridge 1, with seven lanes and two pillars built using reinforced concrete 50 m high.

Bhumibol Bridge

economy [edit ]

Nissan has two factories in the zone, together employing 4,000 workers, 30 % of them contract workers. Nissan-Thailand has an annual production capability 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 its fiscal year 2019, ending adjacent March 2020. roughly 120,000-130,000 units are pickup trucks, the remainder passenger cars. [ 36 ] Nissan produces loanblend electric vehicles ( HEVs ) based on its e-Power engineering and batteries for electric vehicles at a plant in Bang Sao Thong District. It has a production capability of 370,000 vehicles a year. [ 37 ] Thai Theparos Public Co., Ltd., a leading Thai condiment manufacturer, has its headquarters in Thai Ban Subdistrict, Mueang Samut Prakan District. [ 38 ]

Human Achievement Index 2017 [edit ]

Health	Education	Employment	Income

20	15	49	5
Housing	Family	Transport	Participation

69	1	7	77
Province Samut Prakan, 2017 HAI value: 0.6231 (“somewhat high”), 17th in provincial rankings

Since 2003, the United Nations Development Programme ( UNDP ) in Thailand has tracked progress on human development at sub-national level using the Human Achievement Index ( HAI ), a composite index covering eight winder areas of human development. The National Economic and Social Development Board ( NESDB ) has taken over this task since 2017. [ 3 ]

Rank	Classification
1 – 15	“high”
16 – 30	“somewhat high”
31 – 45	“average”
45 – 60	“somewhat low”
61 – 77	“low”

Map of provinces and HAI 2017 rankings

Samut Prakan province – Wikipedia