Bangkok (tha)

Bangkok

Bangkok ranks 231st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Kagoshima Prefecture, Tunis, and Łódź. Memorable people born in Bangkok include Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, Emmanuelle Arsan, and Samak Sundaravej. Memorable people who died in Bangkok include Phraya Phahonphonphayuhasena, Rama I, and Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. Bangkok has been the birth place of many politicians, and athletes and the death place of many politicians, and writers. Bangkok is located in Thailand.

Bangkok, officially known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon and colloquially as Krung Thep, 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 10 million people as of 2024, 13% of the country's population. Over 17.4 million people live within the surrounding Bangkok Metropolitan Region as of the 2021 estimate, making Bangkok a megacity and an extreme primate city, dwarfing Thailand's other urban centres in both size and importance to the national economy. Read more on Wikipedia