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Country Profile: Thailand

A Closer Look at... Thailand
OFFICIAL NAME
 Kingdom of Thailand
GEOGRAPHY
 Southeastern Asia, bordering the Andaman Sea and the Gulf of Thailand, southeast of Myanmar (Burma)
AREA
 517,000 sq km / 199,614 sq miles
COMPARATIVE
 roughly the size of both California + Louisiana
POPULATION
 65,000,000
CAPITAL
 Bangkok
LITERACY
 98% (age 15+ and can read and write)
LANGUAGE
 Thai
RELIGION

Buddhist - 95%

Muslim - 4%

Other/None - 1%

POLITICS
 Founded in 1238, Thailand has never been colonized. The country is now a constitutional monarchy with a king (head of state) and a prime minister (head of government).
INCOME
 Per capita income = US$ 2,540 per year
CURRENCY
 Baht (Bht)
TIME ZONE
 GMT/UTC +7
SOURCES
 Statistics provided by a variety of sources, but mostly the U.S. State Department, the U.N. Statistics Division, and BBC News.

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