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The Gulf of Thailand, historically known as the Gulf of Siam, derives its name from the historical kingdom of Siam, the former name of modern-day Thailand. The term "Gulf of Siam" was widely used in Western cartography and geographical references up until the mid-20th century, reflecting the colonial-era practice of naming regions based on the ...
At its narrowest point, between the Thai cities of Kra Buri and Chumphon, the coastal distance between the Andaman Sea and the Gulf of Thailand is only 44 km (27 mi). [ 2 ] The Kra Isthmus marks the boundary between two sections of the mountain chain which runs from Tibet through the Malay peninsula.
A gulf in geography is a large bay that is an arm of an ocean or sea. ... This page was last edited on 11 February 2025, at 20:33 (UTC).
On many old European maps, the river is named the Mae Nam (แม่น้ำ), the Thai word for "river" (literally, "motherly water"). Irish surveyor and cartographer James McCarthy, F.R.G.S., who served as Director-General of the Siamese Government Surveys prior to establishment of the Royal Thai Survey Department, wrote in his account, "Mae Nam is a generic term, mae signifying "mother ...
Gulf of Thailand (6 C, 52 P) O. Gulf of Oman (5 C, 31 P) Pages in category "Gulfs of Asia" ... This page was last edited on 30 December 2016, at 06:15 (UTC).
Gulf of Aden; Gulf of Aqaba; B. Gulf of Bahrain; K. Gulf of Khambhat; Gulf of Kutch; M. Gulf of Mannar; ... This page was last edited on 18 August 2017, at 04:13 (UTC).
The Andaman Sea (historically also known as the Burma Sea) [4] is a marginal sea of the northeastern Indian Ocean bounded by the coastlines of Myanmar and Thailand along the Gulf of Martaban and the west side of the Malay Peninsula, and separated from the Bay of Bengal to its west by the Andaman Islands and the Nicobar Islands.
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