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| Songkhla Province | |
| Capital | Songkhla |
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| Residents | 1.401.303 (2014) |
| surface | 7,393.889 km² |
| prefix | 074 |
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The province Songkhla(Thai: สงขลา) located in Southern Thailand, on the Gulf Coast and the border to Malaysia.
Regions
Dynamic cardsplaces
- 1 Songkhla - The capital of the province; historical trading town between the lagoon and the open sea
- 2 Has yai - Largest city in the province (and the fourth largest in Thailand) and transportation hub of Southern Thailand. The city is popular with tourists Malaysia and Singapore
- 3 Padang Besar - Border crossing to Malaysia
- 4 Sadao - Border crossing to Malaysia
Other goals
Beach and fishing village near Songkhla
- 5 Ko Yo - Island in Lake Songkhla with small fishing villages, a temple with a huge reclining Buddha, museums on cultural history and everyday life in southern Thailand as well as fish and seafood restaurants.
- 6 Sathing Phra Peninsula - on the Gulf coast, north of the provincial capital: with many beautiful beaches and old facilities from the time of the Srivijaya Empire.
- 7 Khao Nam Khang National Park - in Amphoe Na Thawi, in the very south of the province, on the border with Malaysia: contains the longest man-made cave system in Thailand. The tunnels and caves were excavated in just nine years without mechanical assistance and served as hiding places for the communist guerrillas active in the Thai-Malaysian border area. Opened to tourists in the 1990s, they now offer underground shops and restaurants; about 70 km south of Hat Yai.
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getting there
Has yai has an international 8 Airport (IATA: HDY) 
and a train station on the southern line of the Thai Railway (Bangkok–Butterworth (Malaysia)). There are long-distance bus connections to both Hat Yai and to Songkhla.
mobility
Tourist Attractions
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Wat Tham Khao Rup Chang
- see in Songkhla and Has yai, also:
- 1 Boriphhat waterfall - in Khao Phra (Amphoe Rattaphum): in the dense evergreen rainforest, the water falls over several rocky outcrops into an idyllic bathing lake; on the national road No. 406 (Thanon Yontrakan Kamthon) direction Satun, about 55 km west of Hat Yai.
- 2 Wat Tham Khao Rup Chang - 10 km northwest of Padang Besar (Amphoe Sadao) on the border with Malaysia: unusual temple, partly located in a natural stalactite cave, in the garden 84 statues of Mahayana Buddhist Bodhisattvas and deities of the Chinese folk belief.
activities
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nightlife
security
 | The Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany has a special one about this country Travel and safety advice released (Web link). We strongly advise against traveling to and through the provinces in southern Thailand on the border with Malaysia (Narathiwat, Yala and Pattani and parts of Songkhla) that are subject to emergency law. Date of last notice: 20.06.2018. |
Only the two districts of Chana and Thepha in the east of the province are affected by the emergency law; so Not the major cities of Hat Yai and Songkhla, the beaches of the Sathing Phra Peninsula, the Khao Nam Khang National Park, the border crossings with Malaysia or the main traffic routes. However, there were also bombings in Hat Yai in 2006 and 2014, the latter on a consumer market and a police station.
