Mueang Samut Prakan district (, ) or colloquially known as Paknam Samut Prakan () is the capital district (amphoe mueang) of Samut Prakan province in central Thailand. It has the highest population of all districts in the country.
Mueang Samut Prakan is divided into 13 subdistricts (tambon), which are further subdivided into 35 administrative villages (muban).
<small>Missing numbers are tambons split off at the creation of Phra Samut Chedi district.</small>
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 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 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 shoresâÂÂabout 700 kilometres (500 miles)âÂÂare 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 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.