Pak Khlong Bang Pla Kot literally translates as "the mouth of the bagrid catfish canal".

In the middle Ayutthaya period during the King Ekathotsarot's reign it was the site of a Dutch trading-post called "New Amsterdam".

The story of New Amsterdam has been described in The History of Japan Together with a Description of the Kingdom of Siam, 1690-1692, the archives of Engelbert Kaempfer, a German physician who followed the Dutch diplomatic corps who came to develop good relations with the Ayutthaya in the early the King Phetracha's reign.

[1] The entire area of the Pak Khlong Bang Pla Kot is governed by the Phra Samut Chedi Subdistrict Municipality (เทศบาลตำบลพระสมุทรเจดีย์).

[1] Pak Khlong Bang Pla Kot has a total population of 11,299 (5,552 men, 5,747 women) in 5,708 households.