Mueang Songkhla is the capital district (Amphoe Mueang) of Songkhla Province

Songkhla Province

Songkhla is one of the southern provinces of Thailand. Neighboring provinces are Satun, Phatthalung, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Pattani and Yala. To the south it borders Kedah and Perlis of Malaysia....

, southern Thailand

Thailand

Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...

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Geography

Neighboring districts are (from the south clockwise) Chana

Amphoe Chana

Chana is a district in the southeastern part of Songkhla Province, southern Thailand.-Geography:Neighboring districts are Thepha, Na Thawi, Sadao, Hat Yai, Na Mom and Mueang Songkhla of Songkhla Province...

, Na Mom

Amphoe Na Mom

-History:The district was at first the tambon Thung Phra Khian of Hat Yai district, which was changed into tambon Na Mom in 1943. On April 30 1981 it was made the minor district Na Mom, together with three further tambon from Hat Yai district...

, Hat Yai

Amphoe Hat Yai

-Geography:Neighboring districts are Khuan Kalong of Satun Province, and Rattaphum, Bang Klam, Khuan Niang, Singhanakhon, Mueang Songkhla, Na Mom, Chana, Sadao and Khlong Hoi Khong....

 and Singhanakhon

Amphoe Singhanakhon

Singhanakhon is a district in the northern part of Songkhla Province, southern Thailand.-Geography:Neighboring districts are Mueang Songkhla, Hat Yai, Khuan Niang of Songkhla Province, Pak Phayun of Phatthalung Province and Sathing Phra of Songkhla Province again...

 of Songkhla Province. To the east is the Gulf of Thailand

Gulf of Thailand

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The northern part of the district is the Songkhla Lake

Songkhla Lake

The Songkhla lake is the largest natural lake in Thailand, located 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 Phatthalung. Despite being called a lake, this water surface is actually a lagoon complex...

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History

The name Songkhla is actually the Thai

Thai language

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 corruption of Singgora, its original name means 'the city of lion

Lion

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s' in Malay

Malay language

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. This refers to a lion-shaped mountain near the city of Songkhla.

Administration

The district is subdivided into 6 subdistricts (tambon

Tambon

Tambon is a local government unit in Thailand. Below district and province , they form the third administrative subdivision level. As of the 2009 there are 7255 tambon, not including the 169 khwaeng of Bangkok, which are set at the same administrative level, thus every district contains 8-10 tambon...

), which are further subdivided into 46 villages (muban

Muban

Muban is the lowest administrative subdivision of Thailand. Usually translated as village, they are the subdivision of tambon. As of 2008, there are 74944 administrative villages in Thailand. As of the 1990 census, the average village consisted of 144 households or 746 persons.A muban does not...

). The city (thesaban nakhon) Songkhla

Songkhla

Songkhla is a city in the Songkhla Province of southern Thailand, near the border with Malaysia. As of 2006 it had a population of 75,048...

 covers the whole tambon Bo Yang. There are further 5 Tambon administrative organizations (TAO).

No.	Name	Thai name	Villages	Inh. Population A population is all the organisms that both belong to the same group or species and live in the same geographical area. The area that is used to define a sexual population is such that inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with individuals...
1.	Bo Yang	บ่อยาง
74,875
2.	Khao Rup Chang	เขารูปช้าง	10	38,662
3.	Ko Taeo	เกาะแต้ว	9	10,608
4.	Phawong	พะวง	8	24,130
5.	Thung Wang	ทุ่งหวัง	10	10,343
6.	Ko Yo	เกาะยอ	9	4,454