Samae Dam ( th, แสมดำ, ) is a ''

khwaeng A ''khwaeng'' (, ) is an administrative subdivision used in the fifty districts of Bangkok and a few other city municipalities in Thailand. Currently, there are 180 ''khwaeng'' in Bangkok. A ''khwaeng'' is roughly equivalent to a ''tambon'' in othe ...

'' (sub-district) of

Bang Khun Thian District Bang Khun Thian ( th, บางขุนเทียน, ) is one of the 50 districts (''khet'') of Bangkok, Thailand. Its neighbors, clockwise from the north, are Bang Bon, Chom Thong, and Thung Khru Districts of Bangkok, Phra Samut Chedi dist ...

Bangkok Bangkok, officially known in Thai language, Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon and colloquially as Krung Thep, is the capital and most populous city of Thailand. The city occupies in the Chao Phraya River delta in central Thailand and has an estima ...

History

Samae Dam is an area where

Mon people The Mon ( mnw, ဂကူမည်; my, မွန်လူမျိုး‌, ; th, มอญ, ) are an ethnic group who inhabit Lower Myanmar's Mon State, Kayin State, Kayah State, Tanintharyi Region, Bago Region, the Irrawaddy Delta, and s ...

lived since the reign of King

Nangklao Nangklao ( th, พระบาทสมเด็จพระนั่งเกล้าเจ้าอยู่หัว, ; 31 March 1788 – 2 April 1851), birth name Thap ( th, ทับ), also styled Rama III, was the third king of Siam u ...

(Rama III) during the early Rattanakosin. With most of them immigrated from Mahachai or

Samut Sakhon Samut Sakhon ( th, สมุทรสาคร, Pronunciation is a City in Thailand, capital of Samut Sakhon province. It is a stop on the Maeklong Railway. Samut Sakhon is 48 km from Bangkok. It is part of the Bangkok Metropolitan Region ...

, and settled along the Khlong Sunak Hon, a canal excavated during the reign of King Nangklao to the Mahachai quarter. The name "Samae Dam" means Indian mangrove (''Avicennia officinalis''), a species of

mangrove A mangrove is a shrub or tree that grows in coastal saline water, saline or brackish water. The term is also used for tropical coastal vegetation consisting of such species. Mangroves are taxonomically diverse, as a result of convergent evoluti ...

that was burned to make

charcoal Charcoal is a lightweight black carbon residue produced by strongly heating wood (or other animal and plant materials) in minimal oxygen to remove all water and volatile constituents. In the traditional version of this pyrolysis process, cal ...

which is the original occupation of locals. The scenes of the burning of mangrove charcoal were mentioned in ''Nirat Mueang Phet'', a travelogue of the renowned poet

Sunthon Phu Phra Sunthorn Vohara (Phu) ( th, พระสุนทรโวหาร (ภู่), , ; 26 June 1786 – 1855), known as Sunthorn Phu ( th, สุนทรภู่, , ), is Thailand's best-known royal poet. He wrote during the Rattanakosin pe ...

in 1854. Nowadays, Bang Kradi quarter in Samae Dam is well known for being a Mon settlement as well as a cultural tourism destination.

Geography

Samae Dam is a northern part of the district, with a total area of 35.975 km² (13.890 mi²). Samae Dam is an

urban area An urban area, built-up area or urban agglomeration is a human settlement with a high population density and infrastructure of built environment. Urban areas are created through urbanization and are categorized by urban morphology as cities, t ...

. It is bounded by other sub-districts (from north clockwise): Bang Bon Tai, Khlong Bang Bon in

Bang Bon District Bang Bon ( th, บางบอน, ) is one of the 50 districts (''khet'') of Bangkok, Thailand. Its neighbours, clockwise from north, are Bang Khae, Phasi Charoen, Chom Thong, and Bang Khun Thian districts of Bangkok, Mueang Samut Sakhon distric ...

Bang Khun Thian Bang Khun Thian ( th, บางขุนเทียน, ) is one of the 50 districts (''khet'') of Bangkok, Thailand. Its neighbors, clockwise from the north, are Bang Bon, Chom Thong, and Thung Khru Districts of Bangkok, Phra Samut Chedi dist ...

, Chom Thong in Chom Thong District, Tha Kham in its district (

Maeklong Railway The Maeklong Railway (also known as the Mae Klong Railway) is a railway that runs for nearly between Wongwian Yai, Bangkok, and Samut Songkhram in central Thailand. The line consists of two sections: the eastern Mahachai Line, which runs betw ...

, Khlong Wat Sing and Khlong Sanam Chai are borderlines), Tha Kham in its district (Khlong Sanam Chai is a borderline), Tha Kham in its district (Khlong Sanam Chai, Khlong Phraya Chaiyot Sombat, Lamrang Ta Nen are the borderlines), Phan Thai Norasing and Bang Nam Chuet in

Mueang Samut Sakhon District Mueang Samut Sakhon ( th, เมืองสมุทรสาคร, ) is the capital district ('' amphoe mueang'') of Samut Sakhon province, central Thailand. History ''Mueang'' Tha Chin dates back to the Ayutthaya Kingdom. The city was m ...

of Samut Sakhon Province (Khlong Samae Dam Nuea and Khlong Samae Dam Tai are the borderlines), respectively.

Population

In the 2018 it has the entire population 124,916 people.กรมการปกครอง. กระทรวงมหาดไทย. "รายงานสถิติจำนวนประชากรและบ้าน ประจำปี พ.ศ. 2561." ��อนไลน์ เข้าถึงได้จาก: http://stat.dopa.go.th/stat/statnew/statTDD/views/showZoneData.php?rcode=1021&statType=1&year=2018.

Transportation

Samae Dam is easily accessible via

Rama II Road 300px, Rama II Road in the area of Samut Sakhon Province Rama II Road ( th, ถนนพระรามที่ 2, ; usually shortened to ) or Highway 35 () is a road in Thailand heading towards the south. Rama II Road starts from Chom Thong Di ...

(Highway 35). The area served by many bus lines of the

Bangkok Mass Transit Authority Bangkok Mass Transit Authority ( th, องค์การขนส่งมวลชนกรุงเทพ), also known as BMTA ( th, ขสมก. ), is the main operator of public transit buses within the Greater Bangkok area. It is the lar ...

(BMTA), such as 68, 76, 105, 140, 142, 147, 720 etc. Samae Dam also served by the Kan Kheha, Rang Sakae, Rang Pho, Sam Yaek, and Phrom Daen Railway Halts of the

State Railway of Thailand The State Railway of Thailand (SRT) ( th, การรถไฟแห่งประเทศไทย, abbrev. รฟท., ) is the state-owned rail operator under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Transport in Thailand. History The SRT was ...

(SRT), whose Maeklong Railway runs through the area.

Places

*Bang Khun Thian District Office *Bang Khun Thian Market * CentralPlaza Rama II *

Big C Big C ( th, บิ๊กซี ซูเปอร์เซ็นเตอร์), is a grocery and general merchandising retailer headquartered in Bangkok, Thailand. Big C is as of 2016 Thailand's second-largest hypermarket operator after Lotus's ...

Rama II *

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Rama II *

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*Thon Buri Community Housing *Chao Mae Ngu Chong Ang and Son Shrine *Wat Kamphaeng *Wat Bang Kradi *Wat Sakae Ngam *Wat Samae Dam *Mon Art and Cultural Centre of Bang Kradi

References

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