Samut Prakan

Samut Prakan is a town in the in . The town dates from the Ayutthaya period and has plenty of historical and cultural sites.
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  • Type: City with 50,800 residents
  • Description: city in Samut Prakan province, Thailand
  • Also known as: “Ban Pak Nam”, “Mueang Samut Prakan”, “Paakunamu”, “Pakham”, “Samudh Prakarn”, “Samut”, “Samut Prakan City Municipality”, “Samutpraken”, and “Smutprakan”
  • Historically known as: “Paknam”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Royal Thai Naval Academy and Phi Suea Samut Fort.

University
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The was established by King Chulalongkorn in 1898. He officially opened the academy on 20 November 1906. Originally located on the royal yacht Maha Chakri and some other boats donated by the king, the academy later moved to Wang Derm Palace in , then to Sattahip, and finally to its current location in Samut Prakan in 1952.

Park
Photo: Supanut Arunoprayote, CC BY 4.0.
is a park.

Buddhist temple
Photo: Pattharachai, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is an ancient Buddhist temple in Phra Samut Chedi District, Samut Prakan Province, . Lined on the 's bank in the area of Pak Khlong Bang Pla Ko Sub-district, near Phisuea Samut Fortress and…

Samut Prakan

Latitude
13.5949° or 13° 35′ 42″ north
Longitude
100.5967° or 100° 35′ 48″ east
Population
50,800
Elevation
2 metres (7 feet)
United Nations Location Codes
TH PKN, TH SAP, TH SPK, and TH SPR
Open location code
7P52HHVW+XM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 304199925
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1606590
Wiki­data ID
Q13139252
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Western Panjabi—“Samut Prakan” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ሳሙት ፕራካን”
  • Arabic: “سامت براكان”
  • Arabic: “ساموت براكان”
  • Azerbaijani: “Samut Prakan”
  • Bengali: “সামুত প্রকান”
  • Bengali: “সামোত পারকান”
  • Bulgarian: “Самут Пракан”
  • Cebuano: “Samut Prakan”
  • Chinese: “北榄”
  • Chinese: “北欖”
  • Chinese: “沙没巴干”
  • Chinese: “沙没巴干府”
  • Danish: “Samut Prakan”
  • Dutch: “Samut Prakan”
  • Finnish: “Samut Prakan”
  • French: “Samut Prakan”
  • German: “Samut Prakan”
  • Greek: “Σαμούτ Πρακάν”
  • Gujarati: “સમુટ પ્રકાન”
  • Hausa: “Samut Prakan”
  • Hindi: “समुत प्रकान”
  • Hindi: “समुत प्राकाण”
  • Hungarian: “Szamutprakan”
  • Indonesian: “Samut Prakan”
  • Interlingue: “Samut Prakan”
  • Italian: “Samut Prakan”
  • Japanese: “サムットプラーカーン”
  • Japanese: “サムットプラカーン県”
  • Japanese: “テーサバーンナコーン・サムットプラーカーン”
  • Javanese: “Samut Prakan”
  • Kannada: “ಸಮತ್ ಪ್ರಕನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Самут Прақан”
  • Kirghiz: “Samut Prakan”
  • Korean: “사뭇쁘라깐”
  • Latvian: “Samutprākāna”
  • Lithuanian: “Samut Prakanas”
  • Malay: “Samut Prakan”
  • Marathi: “स्मुथ प्रकाण”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Samut Prakan”
  • Norwegian: “Samut Prakan”
  • Oromo: “Samut Prakan”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਮੁਤ ਪ੍ਰਾਕਾਨ”
  • Persian: “سامت پراکان”
  • Polish: “Samut Prakan”
  • Portuguese: “Samut Prakan”
  • Pushto: “سامت براكان”
  • Russian: “Самутпракан”
  • Serbian: “Самут Пракан”
  • Sinhala: “සමුට් ප්‍රකන්”
  • Slovenian: “Samut Prakan”
  • Somali: “Samut Prakan”
  • Spanish: “Samut Prakan”
  • Swahili: “Samut Prakan”
  • Swedish: “Samut Prakan”
  • Tajik: “Самут Прақан”
  • Tamil: “சமுட் பிரகன்”
  • Tatar: “Samut Prakan”
  • Telugu: “సామ్యూల్ ప్రకన్”
  • Thai: “เทศบาลนครสมุทรปราการ”
  • Thai: “สมุทรปราการ”
  • Turkish: “Samut Prakan”
  • Ukrainian: “Самут-Пракан”
  • Urdu: “ساموت پراکان”
  • Urdu: “سمت پراکان”
  • Uzbek: “Samut Prakan”
  • Vietnamese: “Samut Prakan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Samut Prakan”
  • Western Panjabi: “سامٹ پراکان”

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