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Thailand [i] was known by outsiders before 1939 as Siam. [ii] According to George Cœdès, the word Thai means 'free man' in the Thai language, "differentiating the Thai from the natives encompassed in Thai society as serfs".
The Thai Wikipedia (Thai: วิกิพีเดียภาษาไทย) is the Thai language edition of Wikipedia. It was started on 25 December 2003. As of January 2025, it has 171,029 articles and 493,681 registered users. [1] As of March 2022, Wikipedia (all languages combined) was ranked 14th in Alexa's Top Sites Thailand. [2]
These navigational aids are provided to help the reader find their way around Wikipedia articles related to Thailand: Portal:Thailand is the associated Wikipedia portal of WikiProject Thailand. Outline of Thailand, maintained jointly with WikiProject Outlines - Currently under construction is an outline of knowledge and site map of Wikipedia ...
Mitr Chaibancha (Thai: มิตร ชัยบัญชา; 28 January 1934 – 8 October 1970) was a Thai film actor who acted in 266 films from 1956 to 1970. He died on 8 October 1970 at Dongtan Beach, Jomtien, South Pattaya, after falling from a helicopter during the filming of a stunt for the final scene of Insee thong (Golden Eagle).
Thai people, Siamese people, Central/Southern Thai people or Thai noi people, an ethnic group from Central and Southern Thailand. 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.
By endonym, Thai people refer themselves as chao thai (Thai: ชาวไทย, IPA: [tɕʰaːw tʰaj]), whose term eventually being derived from Proto-Tai *ɗwɤːjᴬ meaning free, [31] which emphasise that Thailand has never been a colony in the late modern period.
As of 31 December 2018 there were 878 districts in Thailand. [1] This table lists those districts, and the provinces of Thailand and regions of Thailand in which they lie. This sortable table does not include districts in Bangkok. See List of districts of Bangkok.
A native Thai speaker, recorded in Bangkok. Thai, [a] or Central Thai [b] (historically Siamese; [c] [d] Thai: ภาษาไทย), is a Tai language of the Kra–Dai language family spoken by the Central Thai, Mon, Lao Wiang, Phuan people in Central Thailand and the vast majority of Thai Chinese enclaves throughout the country.