Geography
The province is located on the Malay Peninsula, at the coast of the Gulf of Thailand. The highest elevation is the Khao Mai Kaeo at 821 meters.
In the north of the province is the Songkhla lake, the biggest natural lake in Thailand. This shallow lake covers an area of 1,040 km², and has a south-north extent of 78 kilometers. At its mouth on the Gulf of Thailand near the city of Songkhla the water becomes brackish. A small population of Irrawaddy Dolphins[?] live in the lake, but is in danger of extinction from bycatch by the local fishing industry.
Demographics
23.2% of the population are muslim, and 4.6% are from the Malayan minority.
Symbols
| The provincial seal shows a conch shell[?] on a tray with glass decorations. The origin of the conch shell is unclear, but the most widely adopted interpretation is that it was a decoration on the jacket of the Prince of Songkhla. The provincial tree is the Sa-dao-thiam (Azadirachta excelsa[?]). |
Administrative divisions
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External links
- Province page from the Tourist Authority of Thailand (http://www.tat.or.th/province/south/songkhla/index.htm)
- Golden Jubilee Network province guide (http://kanchanapisek.or.th/cgi-bin/kp8/oncc/province.cgi?prov=s12)
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