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Bangkok, [a] officially known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon [b] and colloquially as Krung Thep, [c] is the capital and most populous city of Thailand.The city occupies 1,568.7 square kilometres (605.7 sq mi) in the Chao Phraya River delta in central Thailand and has an estimated population of 9.0 million as of 2021, 13% of the country's population.
List of districts of Bangkok. Bangkok is subdivided into 50 districts ( khet, เขต, pronounced [kʰèːt], also sometimes wrongly called amphoe as in the other provinces, derived from Pali khetta, cognate to Sanskrit kṣetra ), which are further subdivided into 180 subdistricts ( khwaeng, แขวง, pronounced [kʰwɛ̌ːŋ] ), roughly ...
Wat Pho ( Thai: วัดโพธิ์, pronounced [wát pʰōː] ⓘ ), also spelled Wat Po, is a Buddhist temple complex in the Phra Nakhon District, Bangkok, Thailand. It is on Rattanakosin Island, directly south of the Grand Palace. [2] Known also as the Temple of the Reclining Buddha, its official name is Wat Phra Chetuphon Wimon ...
Most Thai cities' revised boundaries are contained in the province's capital district, known as Amphoe Mueang. Chiang Mai is the only city outside Bangkok to cover multiple districts in its urban area. Together, Bangkok and Chiang Mai are the only cities in Thailand with a population of over one million.
Suan Pakkad Palace. Suan Pakkad Palace or Suan Pakkard Palace ( Thai: สวนผักกาด, RTGS : Suan Phak Kat, pronounced [sǔan pʰàk kàːt]) is a museum in Bangkok, Thailand. It is located on Sri Ayutthaya Road, south of the Victory Monument. The museum has Thai antiques on display, including Ban Chiang pottery which are over ...
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Chart shows the peopling of Thailand. Thailand is a country of some 70 ethnic groups, including at least 24 groups of ethnolinguistically Tai peoples, mainly the Central, Southern, Northeastern, and Northern Thais; 22 groups of Austroasiatic peoples, with substantial populations of Northern Khmer and Kuy; 11 groups speaking Sino-Tibetan languages ('hill tribes'), with the largest in population ...
Interior of Ubosot of Wat Hong Rattanaram, Bangkok. Thai temple art and architecture is the art and architecture of Buddhist temples in Thailand. Temples are known as wat s, from the Pāḷi vāṭa, meaning "enclosure". A temple has an enclosing wall that divides it from the secular world. Temples served as a stabilizing center in these ...