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Thailand, [a] officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), [b] is a country in Southeast Asia on the Indochinese Peninsula. With a population of almost 66 million, [ 8 ] it spans 513,115 square kilometres (198,115 sq mi). [ 9 ]
History of Thailand. The Tai or Thai ethnic group migrated into mainland Southeast Asia over a period of centuries. The word Siam (Thai: สยาม RTGS: Sayam) may have originated from Pali (suvaṇṇabhūmi, "land of gold"), Sanskrit श्याम (śyāma, "dark"), or Mon ရာမည (rhmañña, "stranger"), with likely the same root ...
Website. www.muangboranmuseum.com. Ancient Siam (also known as Ancient City, Thai: เมืองโบราณ, Mueang Boran) is a museum park constructed by Lek Viriyaphant and occupying over 200 acres (0.81 km 2) in the shape of Thailand. Ancient Siam is dubbed as the world's largest outdoor museum. Close to the Crocodile Farm in Samut ...
The Gulf of Thailand, also known as the Gulf of Siam, is a shallow inlet [1][2] in the southwestern South China Sea, bounded between the southwestern shores of the Indochinese Peninsula and the northern half of the Malay Peninsula. It is around 800 km (500 mi) in length and up to 560 km (350 mi) in width, and has a surface area of 320,000 km 2 ...
The Ayutthaya Kingdom (/ ɑːˈjuːtəjə /; Thai: อยุธยา, RTGS:Ayutthaya, IAST:Ayudhyā or Ayodhyā, pronounced [ʔā.jút.tʰā.jāː] ⓘ) or the Empire of Ayutthaya[ 19 ] was a Mon and later Siamese kingdom that existed in Southeast Asia from 1351 [ 15 ][ 20 ][ 21 ] to 1767, centered around the city of Ayutthaya, in Siam, or ...
Administrative map of Siam in 1916, showing rearrangement of provincial Monthon divisions. Unlike his father Chulalongkorn, who filled the cabinet with senior royal princes, Vajiravudh preferred his personal favorites, [12] who were mostly princes of younger generation.
The provinces of Thailand are administrative divisions of the government of Thailand. [3] The country is divided into 76 provinces ( Thai : จังหวัด , RTGS : changwat , pronounced [t͡ɕāŋ.wàt̚] ) proper, with one additional special administrative area (the capital, Bangkok).
Southern Thailand is on the Malay Peninsula, with an area of around 70,714 km 2 (27,303 sq mi), bounded to the north by Kra Isthmus, the narrowest part of the peninsula. The western part has highly steep coasts, while on the east side river plains dominate. The largest river of the south is the Tapi in Surat Thani, which together with the Phum ...