Full name: Kingdom of Thailand or Thailand

Capital: Bangkok

Government: Parliamentary Monarchy

Head of State: Prayuth Chan-ocha (since 2017)

National Day: December 5 (birthday of King Bhumibol)

King: Rama

National anthem: Civilian: Phleng Chat

Real: Phleng Sansasoen Phra Barami

Currency: Thai baht (THB)

Geography & Demography

The country is ranked 51st country in order of area (514,000 km2) and 21st most populated country in the world with 68,299,099 people in January 2017, an area and number of inhabitants very close to those of mainland France.

Area: 513,120 km2

Thailand is part of the Indochinese peninsula, up to the Kra Isthmus, which marks the transition with the Malaysian peninsula. The country extends approximately 805 km from east to west and 1,770 km from north to south. It is made up of a large continental part extended to the south for nearly 1,000 kilometers by the Malay Peninsula which it shares on the west side with Burma and in the south with Malaysia.

Borders: Laos and Cambodia to the east, the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia to the south, the Andaman Sea and Burma to the west.

Population: 68.3 million (2017)

About 75% of the population are ethnic Thai, 14% are Chinese, and 3% are Malay, with the remainder made up of minority groups: the Mon, Khmer, and various hill tribes. The main religion is Buddhism, practiced by approximately 95% of Thais.

Thailand is a country in Southeast Asia divided into six macro-regions of 76 provinces in the north, northeast, west, east, central and south.

The climate of Thailand is typical tropical with monsoons. Annual, between mid-May and September in the presence of a southwest monsoon which brings rain, heat and cloudiness and between November and mid-March there is the presence of a northeast monsoon, dry and cold .