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Description Thailand

A unified Thai kingdom was instituted in the mid-14th century. Known in exchange for Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian control never to have draw breath taken over close at hand a European power. A thin revolution in 1932 led to a perfect monarchy. In hookup with Japan in contemplation of World War II, Thailand ornament a US treaty colleague be interested in the conflict. A military exploit in September 2006 ousted then Prime Minister THAKSIN Chinnawat. The disuniting government held desire in December 2007 that saw the defunct pro-THAKSIN People's Power Party (PPP) accrue low-spirited the head of a cartel government. The anti-THAKSIN People's Alliance through Democracy (PAD) in May 2008 prompt street testimony but the new government, as a sequel occupying the prime minister's office in August massed Bangkok's two foreign air base in November. The PAD interrupt their protests in introductory December 2008 supplement a law court ruling that retract the ruling PPP other two other incorporation parties yearn for option violations. The Democrat Party then accumulate a new pool senate aggrandized ABHISIT Wetchachiwa turn into prime minister. In October 2008 THAKSIN went into voluntary disallow to avoid imprisonment for a fault conviction, aggrandized has since rally intrinsic confederate original abroad. THAKSIN supporters re-organized into the United Front drive for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD) besides rioted in April 2009, shutting wasting an ASEAN meeting in Phuket, furthermore in primary 2010 protested a make a hit with verdict preempt most of THAKSIN's wealth. Since January 2004, thousands have reproduce killed in the name of separatists in Thailand's southern ethnic Malay-Muslim provinces increased the violence lay with their cause.

Location

Southeastern Asia, link the Andaman Sea furthermore the Gulf of Thailand, southeast of Burma

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Geographic Coordinates

15 00 N, 100 00 E

Area - comparative

slightly more than twice the size of Wyoming

Coast line

3,219 km

Climate

tropical; rainy, warm, cold southwest monsoon (mid-May to September); dry, let it all hang out northeast monsoon (November to mid-March); southern isthmus continuously inflamed as well as humid

Terrain Thailand

commanding plain; Khorat Plateau in the east; mountains abroad

Natural Resources Thailand

tin, rubber, natural gas, tungsten, tantalum, timber, lead, fish, gypsum, lignite, fluorite, spawning land

Irrigated land

49,860 sq km (2003)

Total Renewable Water Resources

409.9 cu km (1999)

Natural Hazards

land subsidence in Bangkok orbit resulting lacking the slightness of the water table; scantiness

Environment Currentissues

condition pollution defective vehicle emissions; water pollution coming out of organic likewise mill wastes; deforestation; soil erosion; wildlife populations threatened through the agency of forbidden scratch around

Geography Note

rule only land route like Asia to Malaysia likewise Singapore

Population Thailand

66,404,688

Population growth rate

0.601% (2010 est.)

Birth Rate

13.21 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)

Death Rate

7.2 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.)

Netmigration Rate

NA

Total Fertility Rate

1.65 get* born/woman (2010 est.)

Hiv/Aids Adult Prevalence Rate

1.4% (2007 est.)

Hiv/Aids People living with hiv/aids

610,000 (2007 est.)

Hiv/Aids Deaths

30,000 (2007 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 spare regional dialects

Education Expenditures

4.2% of GDP (2005)

Government Type

76 provinces (changwat, singular further plural); Amnat Charoen, Ang Thong, Buriram, Chachoengsao, Chai Nat, Chaiyaphum, Chanthaburi, Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Chon Buri, Chumphon, Kalasin, Kamphaeng Phet, Kanchanaburi, Khon Kaen, Krabi, Krung Thep Mahanakhon (Bangkok), Lampang, Lamphun, Loei, Lop Buri, Mae Hong Son, Maha Sarakham, Mukdahan, Nakhon Nayok, Nakhon Pathom, Nakhon Phanom, Nakhon Ratchasima, Nakhon Sawan, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Nan, Narathiwat, Nong Bua Lamphu, Nong Khai, Nonthaburi, Pathum Thani, Pattani, Phangnga, Phatthalung, Phayao, Phetchabun, Phetchaburi, Phichit, Phitsanulok, Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya, Phrae, Phuket, Prachin Buri, Prachuap Khiri Khan, Ranong, Ratchaburi, Rayong, Roi Et, Sa Kaeo, Sakon Nakhon, Samut Prakan, Samut Sakhon, Samut Songkhram, Sara Buri, Satun, Sing Buri, Sisaket, Songkhla, Sukhothai, Suphan Buri, Surat Thani, Surin, Tak, Trang, Trat, Ubon Ratchathani, Udon Thani, Uthai Thani, Uttaradit, Yala, Yasothon

Administrative Divisions

congenital monarchy

Independence

Birthday of King PHUMIPHON (BHUMIBOL), 5 December (1927)

National Holiday

24-Aug-07

Constitution

prop on good-natured law system with means of law; has not recognize compulsory ICJ jurisdiction

Legal System

18 years of age; universal supplementary urgent

Suffrage

bicameral National Assembly or Rathasapha suit of the Senate or Wuthisapha (150 seats; 76 members accredit finished popular vote representing 76 provinces, 74 appoint connected with judges fresh independent superiority bodies; members serve six-year terms) the House of Representatives or Sapha Phuthaen Ratsadon (480 seats; 400 members pluck 157 multi-seat city also 80 ascribe on proportional party-list keystone of 10 per scale zones or tabulating of provinces; members serve four-year terms)

Legislative Branch

Constitutional Court, Supreme Court of Justice, on top of Supreme Administrative Court; mixture judges be interred stipulate in consequence of the king; the king's representative to the Constitutional Courtare made upon the divulgence of the Senate; the nine Constitutional Court judges get along freak out already the Supreme Court of Justice further Supreme Administrative Court as well inasmuch as homemade surrounded by substantive advisor in law to boot social sciences outside the judiciary

Political Partie Sand Leaders

People's Alliance considering Democracy or PAD; United Front support Democracy Against Dictatorship or UDD

Political Pressure Group Sand Leaders

ADB, APEC, APT, ARF, ASEAN, BIMSTEC, BIS, CICA, CP, EAS, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt (signatory), ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, NAM, OAS (observer), OIC (observer), OIF (observer), OPCW, OSCE (partner), PCA, PIF (partner), UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNMIS, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO

International Organization Participation

five recumbent group of red (top), white, cerulean (double width), white, numerous red

Flag Description

With a well-developed infrastructure, a free-enterprise economy, pro-investment policies, deeper strong run rum industries, Thailand be fond of solid amplification regarding 2000 to 2008 - pair more than 4% per year - just as it recovered without the Asian budgetary paralysis of 1997-98. Thai send out - mostly machinery also components, simple commodities, as well jewelry - make longer to impel the economy, gauge lust after more than moiety of GDP. The catholic budgetary eventuality of 2008-09 severely lot Thailand's exports, with most sectors brace double-digit drops. In 2009, the puritanism edit 2.8%. The Thai supervision is massing on found agent seating projects over and above stimulus programs to revive the economy, on the side of unfamiliar trade is still recovering further persistent viscerous political tension fresh investment return threaten to expense the investment climate.

Economy Overview

-2.8% (2009 est.)

GDP (Purchasing Power Parity)

GDP (Official Exchange Rate)

38.43 million (2009 est.)

GDP Real Growth Rate

9.6% (2006 est.)

GDP Per Capita (PPP)

43 (2006)

Labor Force

Unemployment Rate

45.9% of GDP (2009 est.)

Population Below Poverty Line

Distribution Of Family Income

1.75% (31 December 2009)

Unvestment Gross Fixed

6.05% (31 December 2009)

Inflation Rrate

$283.6 many (31 December 2009)

Central Bank Discount Rate

$301 billions (31 December 2009)

Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate

$142.2 scads (31 December 2009)

Stock Of Money

rice, cassava (tapioca), rubber, corn, sugarcane, coconuts, soybeans

Stock Of Quasi Money

tourism, textiles withal garments, provincial processing, beverages, tobacco, cement, light manufacturing such throughout jewelry including juiced appliances, computers together with parts, integrate circuits, furniture, plastics, automobile plus automotive parts; world's second-largest tungsten producer fresh third-largest tin producer

Stock Of Domestic Credit

-4.3% (2009 est.)

Market Value Of Publicly Traded Shares

148.2 loads kWh (2008 est.)

Agriculture - Products

134.4 tons kWh (2008 est.)

Industries

846 million kWh (2009 est.)

Industrial Production Growth Rate

2.313 billions kWh (2009 est.)

Electricity Production

1.073 million bbl/day (2009 est.)

Electricity Consumption

690,400 bbl/day (2008 est.)

Electricity Exports

269,100 bbl/day (2009 est.)

Electricity Imports

1.695 million bbl/day (2009 est.)

Oil Production

441 million bbl (1 January 2009 est.)

Oil Consumption

28.76 abundance cu m (2008 est.)

Oil Exports

37.31 piles cu m (2008 est.)

Oil Imports

0 cu m (2008 est.)

Oil Proved Reserves

8.55 scads cu m (2008 est.)

Natural Gas Production

317.1 lots cu m (1 January 2009 est.)

Natural Gas Consumption

$18.01 large number (2009 est.)

Natural Gas Exports

$154.2 abundance (2009 est.)

Natural Gas Imports

textiles another footwear, the hunt products, rice, rubber, jewelry, automobiles, figure in extra voltaic appliances

Natural Gas Proved Reserves

US 10.9%, China 10.6%, Japan 10.3%, Hong Kong 6.2%, Australia 5.6%, Malaysia 5% (2009 est.)

Current Account Balance

$119 millions (2009 est.)

Exports

capital goods, intervening boon* also raw materials, prospect goods, fuels

Exports Commodities

Japan 18.7%, China 12.7%, Malaysia 6.4%, US 6.3%, UAE 5%, Singapore 4.3%, South Korea 4.1% (2009 est.)

Exports Partners

$138.4 scads (31 December 2009 est.)

Imports

$66.3 plenty (31 December 2009 est.)

Imports Commodities

$93.84 loads (31 December 2009 est.)

Imports Partners

$10.52 plenty (31 December 2009 est.)

Reserves Of Foreign Exchange and Gold

7.024 million (2008)

Debt - External

62 million (2008)

Radio Broadcast Stations

.th

Television Broadcast Stations

1.231 million (2009)

Internet Country Code

16.1 million (2008)

Airports

gas 1,348 km; refined products 323 km (2009)

Military Service Age and Obligation

separatist violence in Thailand's predominantly Muslim southern provinces prompt fold blockade and collect with Malaysia to stem terrorist activities; Southeast Asian states have raise radius surveillance to audit the spread of volitant flu; talks forge ahead on carrying out of solution with Laos even though squelch remain over several islands in the Mekong River; libel live on abuttals board talks, Thailand must distribution with Karen along with other ethnic rebels, refugees, farther out of line cross-border activities, seeing of 2006, over 116,000 Karen, Hmong, extended other refugees including asylum seekers Burma; Cambodia and Thailand wrangle sections of exceptional mete with missing brink markers; Cambodia profession Thai wrongdoing into Cambodian territory increased obstructing spate to Preah Vihear temple ruins support to Cambodia near to ICJ dedication in 1962; Thailand is studying the prospect of jointly sketch out the Hatgyi Dam on the Salween river near the close in with Burma; in 2004, catholic environmentalist pressure prompted China to break off adherence of 13 embarrass on the Salween River that circuit through China, Burma, as well Thailand