Thailand, Thailand for short, the capital of Bangkok, is located in the central south of Indo-China Peninsula, southeast of the Pacific Gulf of Thailand, southwest of the Indian Ocean Andaman Sea. It borders Myanmar on the west and northwest, Laos on the northeast, Cambodia on the east, and Malaysia on the south. It is a tropical monsoon climate, high in the north and low in the south, tilted from northwest to southeast, with a total area of 513,000 square kilometers and a coastline of 2705 kilometers.
Thailand has a total population of 65,228 at the end of 2020. Thailand has more than 700 years of history and culture. In 1238 AD, Thailand formed a relatively unified country, which went through the Sukhothai Dynasty, Tai Cheng Dynasty, Thunburi Dynasty and Bangkok Dynasty, formerly known as Siam. In the 16th century, Portuguese, Dutch, British, French and other colonialists invaded. In 1896, a treaty between Britain and France established Siam as a buffer state between British Burma and French Indochina, making it the only country in Southeast Asia not to be colonized. At the end of the 19th century, King Rama IV began to open to the outside world, and King Rama V learned from Western experience to carry out social reforms.
In June 1932, the Democratic Party staged a coup and changed the absolute monarchy into a constitutional monarchy. In 1949, it was officially named Thailand. As a member and founding member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, as well as a member of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation and the World Trade Organization, Thailand is one of the world's happiest economies. Thailand is an emerging industrial country and one of the market economies. It adopts a liberal economic policy and is an export-oriented economy. The GDP in 2021 is 505.6 billion US dollars
