Thailand
Thailand (officially Kingdom of Thailand) is a country in South-Eastern Asia, with its capital at Bangkok, and is home to roughly 71.7M people.
Thai is the official language; the currency in circulation is Thai baht (฿); people from here are called Thai.
- »Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never colonised by a European power.
- »Its full ceremonial capital name is among the longest place names in the world.
Thailand touches four neighbours: Cambodia to the southeast, Laos to the northeast, Malaysia to the southeast and Myanmar to the northwest. Directions run from one centre to the other.
Bangkok's full ceremonial name runs to well over a hundred letters and is recognised as the longest place name in the world. Thais normally call it Krung Thep.
514,601 km² (198,688 sq mi), 49th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Spain.
Population 71,668,011, 20th of 198 on file. That averages 139 per km² (361 per sq mi).
The Trairanga's red-white-blue stands for nation, religion and monarchy. The blue central band was added in 1917, partly to align with the Allies of the First World War.