Siamese
# Siamese

Siamese describes something of or related to Siam (now called Thailand), or more specifically the region of Central Thailand, usually including Southern Thailand.

Siamese may refer to:

## Animals

* Siamese cat, a domestic cat breed
* Siamese crocodile, a species of crocodile
* Siamese mud carp, a species of freshwater fish in the carp family, Cyprinidae
* Siamese algae eater, a species of freshwater fish in the carp family, Cyprinidae
* Siamese fighting fish, a species of fish from genus Betta
* Siamese fireback, Lophura diardi, the national bird of Thailand
* Siamese tigerfish, a species of fish from genus Datnioides, tiger perch

## Other uses

* Conjoined twins or Siamese twins, identical twins joined in utero
   * Chang and Eng Bunker, The "Siamese Twins", Siamese-American conjoined twin brothers from whom the term derives
* Siamese (band), formerly Siamese Fighting Fish, Danish rock and metal band
* Siamese connection or a splitter in fire protection engineering
* Siamese method, a mathematical method described by Simon de la Loubère
* Sukhothai language, a kind of Thai topolect, 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 or Siamese language, the sole official language of Thailand and first language of most people in Central Thailand and include Thai Chinese in Southern Thailand.
   * Southern Thai language, or Southern Siamese language, or Tambralinga language, language of Southern Thailand first language of most people in Southern Thailand
* Thai people, Siamese people, Central/Southern Thai people or Thai noi people, an ethnic group from Central Thailand and Southern Thailand
   * Khorat Thai, ethnic groups in Nakhon Ratchasima Province.
   * Malaysian Siamese, ethnic groups in Northern Peninsular Malaysia.
