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14-422: Mueang Samut Prakan is divided into 13 subdistricts ( tambon ), which are further subdivided into 35 administrative villages ( muban ). Missing numbers are tambons split off at the creation of Phra Samut Chedi district . There is one city ( thesaban nakhon ) in the district: There are two towns ( thesaban mueang ) in the district: There are five subdistrict municipalities ( thesaban tambon ) in

28-524: A tambon may either be administered by a Subdistrict (Tambon) Administrative Organization (SAO or TAO, Thai : องค์การบริหารส่วนตำบล ) or a Tambon Council (TC, Thai : สภาตำบล ). However, since 2001 all of the Tambon Councils have been upgraded to Tambon Administrative Organizations. The TAO council consist of two representatives from each administrative village in the subdistrict, and one directly elected president. The subdistrict area which belongs to

42-488: A municipality ( thesaban ) is administered by the municipal council. In the event only part of the subdistrict is within a municipality, the remaining part is administered by a TAO. Adjoining subdistricts of a single district can also have a joint TAO. In 2001, Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra started a project in which every tambon would select a typical, distinctive local product. The project then aids in promoting

56-461: A role in local policy making. Under the 1997 constitution , Tambon Administrative Organizations (TAO) were created as new local administrative units. The lifetime appointment also was replaced by a five-year term of office. Chaiyan Rajchagool. "Tambon Administration Organization: Are the people in the dramatis personae or in the audience?" (PDF) . Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 September 2012. This Thailand -related article

70-460: A subdistrict in Thailand is about 70.72 km (27.31 sq mi), while its average population of a subdistrict in Thailand is about 9,637 people. The tambon as a subdivision has a long history. It was the second-level subdivision of the area administered by a provincial town in the 19th century. The governor of the province was supposed to appoint a communal elder, kamnan or phan . In

84-617: Is Sukhumvit Road , which links the city to Central Bangkok all the way towards the Cambodian border in Trat . The Thai Sikh International School is in Samrong, in the district. Samut Prakan Hospital , the main hospital of the province is located in the district. This Samut Prakan Province location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Tambon Tambon ( Thai : ตำบล , pronounced [tām.bōn] )

98-523: Is a local governmental unit in Thailand . Below district ( amphoe ) and province ( changwat ), they form the third administrative subdivision level. As of 2016 there were 7,255 tambons, not including the 180 khwaeng of Bangkok , which are set at the same administrative level, thus every district contains eight to ten tambon. Tambon is usually translated as " township " or "subdistrict" in English —

112-486: The administrative reforms started in 1892 under Prince Damrong Rajanubhab , the first Thai Minister of the Interior , the three levels of subdivision of provinces were continued, i.e., starting from district to tambon to the lowest level called muban . The subdistricts are subdivided into administrative villages (muban, หมู่บ้าน ) as the lowest administrative subdivision. Usually these are referred to much more often by

126-471: The among village elders (phu yai ban) of the villages that make up the tambon. Originally, it was a lifetime post, but now is for a fixed term. The kamnan's main task was to implement the policies of the higher administrative levels, and he was the main point of government contact for the people of the tambon. With the Tambon Council and Tambon Administrative Authority Act BE 2537 (1994), the tambon assumed

140-622: The district: There are four subdistrict administrative organizations (SAO) in the district: Interhides Public Company (IHL) 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. The district's coastline has seen severe erosion since the 1990s. 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

154-456: The latter is the recommended translation, though also often used for king amphoe , the designation for a subdistrict acting as a branch (Thai: king ) of the parent district. Tambon are further subdivided into 74,944 villages ( muban ) as of 2008. Tambon within cities or towns are not subdivided into villages, but may have less formal communities called chumchon ( ชุมชน ) that may be formed into community associations . The average area of

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168-630: The loss of 4,000 rai of land to the sea. 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". 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

182-527: The product, as well as assisting in modernizing production. Shops selling OTOP products are located in each provincial capital. Kamnan A kamnan ( Thai : กำนัน ) is a Thai governing official at the tambon (subdistrict) level. It is usually translated as "subdistrict headman". The position of a kamnan was introduced with the Thesaphiban administrative reforms near the end of the 19th century, first enacted in 1892. The kamnan would to be chosen from

196-531: The village number than the actual name, especially as an administrative village may contain more than one settlement, or a large settlement may be split into more than one administrative village. One of the elected village headmen is elected as the subdistrict headman ( Kamnan ). With the Tambon Council and Tambon Administrative Authority Act BE 2537 (1994) and later by the constitution of 1997 , tambon were decentralized into local government units with an elected tambon council. Depending on its size and tax income

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