Samut Songkhram province

{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" align="right"\n! colspan="2" align=center bgcolor="#DEFFAD"|Statistics\n|-\n||Capital:||Samut Songkhram\n|-\n||Area:||valign=top|416.7 km²
Ranked 76th\n|-\n||Inhabitants:||valign=top|204.177 (2000)
Ranked 75th\n|-\n||Pop. density:||valign=top|490 inh./km²
Ranked 5th\n|-\n||ISO 3166-2:||TH-75\n|-\n!colspan="2" align=center bgcolor="#DEFFAD"|Map\n|-\n|colspan="2" align=center|\n|}\nSamut Songkhram (Thai สมุทรสงคราม) is one of the central provinces (changwat) of Thailand. Neighboring provinces are (from the south clockwise) Phetchaburi, Ratchaburi and Samut Sakhon. The province is the smallest of all Thai provinces areawise.

Table of contents

1 Geography 2 History 3 Administrative divisions 4 External links

Geography

\nSamut Songkhram is located at the mouth of the Mae Klong river to the Gulf of Thailand. With several canals (khlong) the water of the river is spread through the province for irrigation. \n

Symbols

\n{|\n|- valign=top|\n||\n||The provincial seal shows a drum swimming on a river. The Thai word for drum is klong, thus refers to the Mae Klong river, as well as the old name of the province, Mae Klong. On both sides of the river coconut trees are displayed as one of the main product of the province. Provincial tree is Casuarina equisetifolia.\n|}\n

Administrative divisions

\nThe province is subdivided into 3 districts (Amphoe). The districts are further subdivided into 38 communes (tambon) and 284 villages.\n#Mueang Samut Songkhram\n#Bang Khonthi\n#Amphawa

External links

\n*Province page from the Tourist Authority of Thailand\n*Golden Jubilee Network province guide \n