Mueang Samut Prakan district

Mueang Samut Prakan district (Template:Langx, Template:IPA Template:Audio) or colloquially known as Paknam Samut Prakan (Template:Langx) is the capital district (amphoe mueang) of Samut Prakan province in central Thailand. It has the highest population of all districts in the country.

Administration

Central administration

Mueang Samut Prakan is divided into 13 subdistricts (tambon), which are further subdivided into 35 administrative villages (muban).

No.	Name	Thai	Villages	Pop.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Template:01.	Pak Nam	Template:Lang	Template:0–	51,495
Template:02.	Samrong Nuea	Template:Lang	Template:0–	72,495
Template:03.	Bang Mueang	Template:Lang	Template:0–	68,362
Template:04.	Thai Ban	Template:Lang	Template:0–	25,559
Template:05.	Bang Pu Mai	Template:Lang	Template:0–	39,435
Template:06.	Phraek Sa	Template:Lang	Template:07	60,549
Template:07.	Bang Prong	Template:Lang	Template:04	10,239
Template:08.	Bang Pu	Template:Lang	Template:0–	Template:06,729
Template:09.	Bang Duan	Template:Lang	Template:08	Template:07,992
Template:010.	Bang Mueang Mai	Template:Lang	Template:0–	51,980
Template:011.	Thepharak	Template:Lang	Template:09	49,599
Template:012.	Thai Ban Mai	Template:Lang	Template:0–	48,037
Template:013.	Phraek Sa Mai	Template:Lang	Template:07	48,508

Missing numbers are tambons split off at the creation of Phra Samut Chedi district.

Local administration

There is one city (thesaban nakhon) in the district:

• Samut Prakan (Thai: Template:Lang) consisting of subdistrict Pak Nam.

There are two towns (thesaban mueang) in the district:

• Pak Nam Samut Prakan (Thai: Template:Lang) consisting of parts of subdistrict Bang Mueang.
• Phraek Sa Mai (Thai: Template:Lang) consisting of parts of subdistrict Phraek Sa Mai.

There are five subdistrict municipalities (thesaban tambon) in the district:

• Samrong Nuea (Thai: Template:Lang) consisting of parts of subdistricts Samrong Nuea, Bang Mueang Mai, Thepharak.
• Dan Samrong (Thai: Template:Lang) consisting of parts of subdistrict Samrong Nuea.
• Bang Mueang (Thai: Template:Lang) consisting of parts of subdistricts Bang Mueang, Bang Mueang Mai, Thepharak.
• Phraek Sa (Thai: Template:Lang) consisting of parts of subdistricts Phraek Sa, Thepharak, Phraek Sa Mai.
• Bang Pu (Thai: Template:Lang) consisting of subdistricts Thai Ban, Bang Pu Mai, Bang Pu, Thai Ban Mai.

There are four subdistrict administrative organizations (SAO) in the district:

• Phraek Sa (Thai: Template:Lang) consisting of parts of subdistrict Phraek Sa.
• Bang Prong (Thai: Template:Lang) consisting of subdistrict Bang Prong.
• Bang Duan (Thai: Template:Lang) consisting of subdistrict Bang Duan.
• Thepharak (Thai: Template:Lang) consisting of parts of subdistrict Thepharak.

Economy

Interhides Public Company (IHL)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> operates nine tanning factories in Bang Pu Mai and is building a tenth factory there to be operational by 2020. IHL produce finished leathers for international footwear, automotive, and furniture companies.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Environment

The district's coastline has seen severe erosion since the 1990s.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Coastal mangrove forests were destroyed and replaced with shrimp farms. Three to five metres of shoreline has been submerged every year since then, resulting in the loss of 4,000 rai of land to the sea.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Thailand lost almost one third of its coastal mangrove forests between 1961 and 2000. According to Thailand's Department of Marine and Coastal Resources, a quarter of the country's shores—about 700 kilometres (500 miles)—are eroding, some "severely".<ref name="Nation-20190408">Template:Cite news</ref>

Transportation

Samut Prakan is served by the southern end of the Sukhumvit Line on the BTS Skytrain (from Samrong to Kheha stations). The major thoroughfare in Samut Prakan is Sukhumvit Road, which links the city to Central Bangkok all the way towards the Cambodian border in Trat.

Education

The Thai Sikh International School is in Samrong, in the district.<ref>"Contact Us." Thai Sikh International School Template:Webarchive</ref>

Health

Samut Prakan Hospital, the main hospital of the province is located in the district.

External links

• Amphoe.com Template:In lang

[[Category:Districts o n province|Mueang Samut Prakan]]