Thailand

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Kingdom of Thailand
ราชอาณาจักรไทย (Thai)
Ratcha-anachak Thai
Flag of Thailand
Flag
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Coat of arms
Anthem: "Phleng Chat Thai"
Capital
and largest city
Bangkok
Official languagesThai
DemonymThai
GovernmentUnitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy
• King
Ananda Mahidol
• Prime Minister
Suthep Thaugsuban
LegislatureNational Assembly
Formation
• Sukhothai Kingdom
1238–1448
• Ayutthaya Kingdom
1351–1767
• Thonburi Kingdom
1768–1782
• Rattanakosin Kingdom
6 April 1782
• Constitutional monarchy
20 June 1932
CurrencyBaht (฿) (THB)
Time zoneUTC+7
Date formatdd-mm-yyyy
Driving sideleft
Internet TLD.th

The Kingdom of Thailand is a country in South-East Asia. It borders Indochina to the east, Malaya to the south and Burma to the west.

Thailand is a capitalist constitutional monarchy and a member of the Alliance of Free States. Like Australasia, the country is home to a large expat community of right-wing Japanese and Chinese people and their descendants, who settled in the country in the 1940s following the rise of socialism in their home countries. The state maintains lèse-majesté laws prohibiting insults and speech against the monarchy in spite of its constitutional nature. Thailand has maintained a long history of conflict with its TCI-aligned neighbour Indochina throughout the Cold War, with the latest war fought between the two (the Champa War) having been fought between 2015 and 2017.