# Siamese

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**Siamese** describes something of or related to Siam (now called [Thailand](/source/Thailand)), or more specifically the region of [Central Thailand](/source/Central_Thailand), usually including [Southern Thailand](/source/Southern_Thailand).

**Siamese** may refer to:

## Animals

- [Siamese cat](/source/Siamese_cat), a domestic cat breed
- [Siamese crocodile](/source/Siamese_crocodile), a species of crocodile
- [Siamese mud carp](/source/Siamese_mud_carp), a species of freshwater fish in the carp family, Cyprinidae
- [Siamese algae eater](/source/Siamese_algae_eater), a species of freshwater fish in the carp family, Cyprinidae
- [Siamese fighting fish](/source/Siamese_fighting_fish), a species of fish from genus *Betta*
- [Siamese fireback](/source/Siamese_fireback), *Lophura diardi*, the national bird of Thailand
- [Siamese tigerfish](/source/Siamese_tigerfish), a species of fish from genus *Datnioides*, tiger perch

## Other uses

- [Conjoined twins](/source/Conjoined_twins) or Siamese twins, identical twins joined in utero - [Chang and Eng Bunker](/source/Chang_and_Eng_Bunker), The "Siamese Twins", Siamese-American conjoined twin brothers from whom the term derives
- [Siamese (band)](/source/Siamese_(band)), formerly Siamese Fighting Fish, Danish rock and metal band
- [Siamese connection](/source/Siamese_connection) or a splitter in fire protection engineering
- [Siamese method](/source/Siamese_method), a mathematical method described by Simon de la Loubère
- Sukhothai language, a kind of [Thai topolect](/source/Southwestern_Tai_languages), by the end of the 18th century, they gradually diverged into regional variants, which subsequently developed into the modern Central Thai and Southern Thai. - [Central Thai language](/source/Thai_language) or Siamese language, the sole official language of Thailand and first language of most people in Central Thailand and include [Thai Chinese](/source/Thai_Chinese) in Southern Thailand (Known in Southern Thai as *Leang Ka Luang* (Thai: แหลงข้าหลวง)). - [Southern Thai language](/source/Southern_Thai_language), or Southern Siamese language, or [Tambralinga](/source/Tambralinga) language, language of Southern Thailand first language of most people in Southern Thailand
- [Thai people](/source/Thai_people), Siamese people, Central/Southern Thai people or Thai noi people, an ethnic group from Central Thailand and Southern Thailand - [Khorat Thai](/source/Khorat_Thai), ethnic groups in [Nakhon Ratchasima Province](/source/Nakhon_Ratchasima_Province). - [Malaysian Siamese](/source/Malaysian_Siamese), ethnic groups in Northern [Peninsular Malaysia](/source/Peninsular_Malaysia). - [Koh Kong people](/source/Koh_Kong_people), ethnic groups in Koh Kong. - [Tanintharyi Thai](/source/Tanintharyi_Thai), Thai minority in Tanintharyi. - [Yodaya people](/source/Yodaya_people), Bamar with Thai ancestry in Central Myanmar.

## See also

- [Siamese twins (disambiguation)](/source/Siamese_twins_(disambiguation))
- [Siam (disambiguation)](/source/Siam_(disambiguation))
- [Thai (disambiguation)](/source/Thai_(disambiguation))

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