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Road Traffic:left side
Electricity:
Voltage:220V
Frequency:50 Hz
Plug types:A, C,
Note:*Some outlets are a combination of type
TV Systems:
System:PAL B
DVD-Region: 3
Geography
Bordering countries:
Location:
Southeastern Asia, bordering the Andaman Sea and the Gulf of Thailand, southeast of Burma
Area:
total: 514,000 sq km
land: 511,770 sq km
water: 2,230 sq km
Climate:
tropical; rainy, warm, cloudy southwest monsoon (mid-May to September); dry, cool northeast monsoon (November to mid-March); southern isthmus always hot and humid
Terrain:
central plain; Khorat Plateau in the east; mountains elsewhere
Economy
GDP: $560.7 billion (2005 est.)
GDP growth rate: 4.5% (2005 est.)
GDP per capita: $8,300 (2005 est.)
Inflation rate: 4.5% (2005 est.)
Currency: baht (THB)
Exchange rates:
baht per US dollar - 40.22 (2005), 40.222 (2004), 41.485 (2003), 42.96 (2002), 44.432 (2001)
People
Population:
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2006 est.)
Growth rate: 0.68% (2006 est.)
Religions:
Buddhist 94.6%, Muslim 4.6%, Christian 0.7%, other 0.1% (2000 census)
Languages:
Thai, English (secondary language of the elite), ethnic and regional dialects
Government
Capital:
name: Bangkok
time difference: UTC+7 (12 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)
Independence:
1238 (traditional founding date; never colonized)
Note: Information on Thailand was mainly sourced from CIA's World Factbook and may represent an American point of view. To learn more about Thailand, please visit one of the links below.
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