Ko Yo ( th, เกาะยอ, ) is an

island An island (or isle) is an isolated piece of habitat that is surrounded by a dramatically different habitat, such as water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, skerries, cays or keys. An island ...

, located in the

Songkhla lake Songkhla Lake ( th, ทะเลสาบสงขลา, , ) is the largest natural lake in Thailand. It is on the Malay peninsula in the southern part of the country. Covering an area of 1,040 km2 it borders the provinces of Songkhla and Pha ...

in the area of Mueang Songkhla District, Songkhla Province in

southern Thailand Southern Thailand, Southern Siam or Tambralinga is a southernmost cultural region of Thailand, separated from Central Thailand region by the Kra Isthmus. Geography Southern Thailand is on the Malay Peninsula, with an area of around , bounded ...

Geography

Ko Yo is a small island in the middle of southern Songkhla lake, a part of Songkhla Province. Covering an area of 3,710 acres, most of the area is mountains and hills, 10-151 meters high, with the northernmost part of the island being "Khao Bo" or "Khao Khae". From Khao Bo is connected to the south called "Khao Kuti", the highest point of the area about 151 meters. Neighbouring places are (from north clockwise): Singhanakhon District, Mueang Songkhla District, Mueang Songkhla District, and

Hat Yai District Hat Yai ( th, หาดใหญ่, ) is a district ('' amphoe'') of Songkhla province, southern Thailand. Geography Neighboring districts are (from the west clockwise): Khuan Kalong of Satun province; Rattaphum, Bang Klam, Khuan Niang, S ...

, all of them are in Songkhla Province.

Administration

Ko Yo has the status of a ''

tambon ''Tambon'' ( th, ตำบล, ) is a local governmental unit in Thailand. Below district (''amphoe'') and province (''changwat''), they form the third administrative subdivision level. there were 7,255 tambons, not including the 180 ''khwaeng'' ...

'' (sub-district) in Mueang Songkhla District. Ko Yo is administered by the Subdistrict Administrative Organization (SAO) Ko Yo (องค์การบริหารส่วนตำบลเกาะยอ). It also consists of nine ''

muban Muban ( th, หมู่บ้าน; , ) is the lowest administrative sub-division of Thailand. Usually translated as 'village' and sometimes as 'hamlet', they are a subdivision of a tambon (subdistrict). , there were 74,944 administrative mu ...

''s (village).

Transportation

Tinsulanonda Bridge Ko Yo is approximately 20 kilometers southwest of Mueang Songkhla District Office by land and 6 kilometers by water. The island connected to the mainland by Tinsulanonda Bridge, which is divided into two phases.

Demography

Most of the local population is of

Thai-Chinese Thai Chinese (also known as Chinese Thais, Sino-Thais), Thais of Chinese origin ( th, ชาวไทยเชื้อสายจีน; ''exonym and also domestically''), endonym Thai people ( th, ชาวไทย), are Chinese descenda ...

people who work in fishing and cultivation.

Tourism

Ko Yo that has recently become one of important tourist attractions in province of Songkhla. It is famous for its cotton-weaving industry called "Ko Yo Woven Cloth". '' Parapocryptes serperaster'', a species of

goby Goby is a common name for many species of small to medium sized ray-finned fish, normally with large heads and tapered bodies, which are found in marine, brackish and freshwater environments. Traditionally most of the species called gobies have b ...

can be found locally and is cooked as a local delicacy.

Local products

*Ko Yo Woven Cloth * Chempedak *Crispy

Barramundi The barramundi (''Lates calcarifer'') or Asian sea bass, is a species of catadromous fish in the family Latidae of the order Perciformes. The species is widely distributed in the Indo-West Pacific, spanning the waters of the Middle East, South ...

Skin

References

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