Thailand

Thailand

Thailand ranks 69th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Uzbekistan, Iceland, and Jamaica. Memorable people born in present day Thailand include Vajiralongkorn, Chulalongkorn, and Thaksin Shinawatra. Memorable people who died in Thailand include Bhumibol Adulyadej, Chulalongkorn, and Ananda Mahidol. Thailand has been the birth place of many politicians, and athletes and the death place of many politicians, and singers.

Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically Siam until 1939, is a country in Southeast Asia, located on the Indochinese Peninsula. With a population of almost 66 million, it spans 513,115 square kilometres (198,115 sq mi). Thailand is bordered to the northwest by Myanmar, to the northeast and east by Laos, to the southeast by Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the southwest by the Andaman Sea; it also shares maritime borders with Vietnam to the southeast and Indonesia and India to the southwest. Bangkok is the state capital and largest city. Read more on Wikipedia