Key facts
Capital: Bangkok
Location: Southeastern Asia, bordering the Andaman Sea and the Gulf of Thailand, southeast of Burma
Government: Kingdom of Thailand
Currency: Thai baht (THB)
Area: 513,120 sq km
Population: 69,480,520 (July 2021 est.)
Languages: Thai (official) only 90.7%, Thai and other languages 6.4%, only other languages 2.9% (includes Malay, Burmese); note - data represent population by language(s) spoken at home; English is a secondary language of the elite (2010 est.)
Religion: Buddhist 94.6%, Muslim 4.3%, Christian 1%, other <0.1%, none <0.1% (2015 est.)
TimeZone: UTC+7
Tel Code: +66
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