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Thailand is the most visited country in , and for good reason. You can find thick jungle as green as can be, crystal blue waters that feel more like a warm bath than a swim in the ocean, and food that can curl your nose hairs while tap dancing across your taste buds.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Bangkok and Chiang Mai.

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is the capital and largest city of Thailand. With a population of over eleven million inhabitants, is by far Thailand's main city, with the urban sprawl comprising nearly half of Thailand's population, and the largest city on the Southeast Asian mainland.

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is the hub of northern Thailand. On a plain at an elevation of 316 m, surrounded by mountains and lush countryside, it is much greener and quieter than the capital and has a cosmopolitan air and a significant expatriate population, all factors which have led many from Bangkok to settle permanently in this "rose of the north".

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is a seaside resort on the of Thailand, about 150 km southeast of . is mostly famous for its go-go and beer bars, but local authorities have made some efforts to provide more family-friendly attractions and activities.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Southern Thailand and Central Thailand.

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includes many of Thailand's most famous resorts on both the west-facing Andaman Sea coastline, and the east-facing Gulf of Thailand coast south of .

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, also known as the Central Plains, is the low-lying central region of Thailand. It is centered around the giant urban agglomeration of .

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shares borders with and , as well as with the Central Plains and .

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is Thailand's largest region, consisting of 20 provinces. Despite having 30% of Thailand's population, this region receives less than 3% of Thailand's tourist dollars.

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comprises the seven provinces that lie south of and east of the Central Plains, sandwiched between and .

Thailand

Latitude of center
14.8972° or 14° 53′ 50″ north
Longitude of center
100.8327° or 100° 49′ 58″ east
Population
69,500,000
Area
514,000 km² (198,457 miles²)
Elevation
120 metres (394 feet)
Capital
Currency
Baht (THB)
Phone code
.th
Internet domain
66
Open­Street­Map ID
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Geo­Names ID
1605651
Wiki­data ID
Q869
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Thailand” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Muang Thai”
  • Adyghe: “Тайланд”
  • Afrikaans: “Thailand”
  • Akan: “Taeland”
  • Albanian: “Tajlanda”
  • Albanian: “Tajlandë”
  • Amharic: “ታይላንድ”
  • Amis: “Thailand”
  • Angika: “थाईलैंड”
  • Arabic: “تايلاند”
  • Arabic: “مملكة تايلاند”
  • Aragonese: “Tailandia”
  • Armenian: “Թաիլանդ”
  • Armenian: “Թայլանդ”
  • Arpitan: “Tayilanda”
  • Arpitan: “Tayilande”
  • Assamese: “থাইলেণ্ড”
  • Asturian: “Tailandia”
  • Asturian: “Thailandia”
  • Atayal: “Thailand”
  • Awadhi: “थाइल्याण्ड”
  • Aymara: “Taylandya”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tailand”
  • Balinese: “Thailand”
  • Bambara: “Tayilandi”
  • Banjar: “Thailand”
  • Bashkir: “Таиланд”
  • Basque: “Tailandia”
  • Basque: “Thailandia”
  • Batak Mandailing: “Thailand”
  • Batak Toba: “Thailand”
  • Bavarian: “Thailand”
  • Belarusian: “Тайланд”
  • Belarusian: “Тайлянд”
  • Bengali: “তাইরাজ্য”
  • Bengali: “তাইল্যান্ড”
  • Bengali: “থাই”
  • Bengali: “থাইরাজ্য”
  • Bengali: “থাইল্যান্ড”
  • Betawi: “Muang-Tay”
  • Bhojpuri: “थाइलैंड”
  • Bishnupriya: “টাইলান্ডিয়া”
  • Bislama: “Taelan”
  • Bislama: “Thailand”
  • Bosnian: “Tajland”
  • Brahui: “Táílaenđ”
  • Breton: “Thailand”
  • Buginese: “Siam”
  • Buginese: “Sieng”
  • Buginese: “Tai”
  • Buginese: “Tailang”
  • Buginese: “th”
  • Buginese: “THA”
  • Buginese: “Thailand”
  • Buginese: “ᨈᨕᨗ”
  • Buginese: “ᨈᨕᨗᨒ”
  • Buginese: “ᨈᨕᨗᨒᨊᨉ”
  • Buginese: “ᨔᨗᨕᨛ”
  • Bulgarian: “Тайланд”
  • Burmese: “ထိုင်း”
  • Burmese: “ထိုင်းနိုင်ငံ”
  • Burmese: “ထိုင်းဘုရင့်နိုင်ငံ”
  • Burmese: “ယိုးဒယား” (historical)
  • Catalan: “Regne de Tailàndia”
  • Catalan: “Tailàndia”
  • Cebuano: “Taylandiya”
  • Central Bikol: “Tailandya”
  • Central Kanuri: “Thailand”
  • Central Kurdish: “تایلەند”
  • Chavacano: “Tailandia”
  • Chechen: “Таиланд”
  • Cherokee: “ᏔᏯᎴᏂ”
  • Cherokee: “ᏔᏱᎦᏙᎯ”
  • Cheyenne: “Thailand”
  • Chinese: “Thài-kok”
  • Chinese: “泰国 / 泰國”
  • Chinese: “泰国”
  • Chinese: “泰國”
  • Chinese: “泰王國”
  • Chuvash: “Таиланд”
  • Cornish: “Pow Tay”
  • Corsican: “Regnu di Tailandia”
  • Corsican: “Regnu di Thailandia”
  • Corsican: “Tailandia”
  • Corsican: “Thailandia”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Tayland”
  • Croatian: “Tajland”
  • Czech: “Thajské království”
  • Czech: “Thajsko”
  • Dagbani: “Thailan”
  • Dagbani: “Thailand”
  • Danish: “Thailand”
  • Dhivehi: “ސިޔާމު”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Tayland”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Taylanda”
  • Dotyali: “थाइल्याण्ड”
  • Dutch: “Koninkrijk Thailand”
  • Dutch: “TH”
  • Dutch: “THA”
  • Dutch: “Thailand”
  • Dzongkha: “ཐཱའི་ལེནཌ”
  • Eastern Mari: “Таиланд”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تايلاندا”
  • Erzya: “Тайланд Мастор”
  • Esperanto: “Siamo”
  • Esperanto: “Tajlando”
  • Estonian: “Tai Kuningriik”
  • Estonian: “Tai”
  • Ewe: “Thailand nutome”
  • Ewe: “Thailand”
  • Extremaduran: “Tailándia”
  • Faroese: “Tailand”
  • Faroese: “Teiland”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Thailand”
  • Fijian: “Tailadi”
  • Fijian: “Thailand”
  • Finnish: “Thaimaa”
  • Finnish: “Thaimaan kuningaskunta”
  • French: “Royaume de Thailande”
  • French: “Royaume de Thaïlande”
  • French: “Siam”
  • French: “th”
  • French: “THA”
  • French: “Thaïl.”
  • French: “Thaïl”
  • French: “Thailande”
  • French: “Thaïlande”
  • Friulian: “Tailandie”
  • Fulah: “Tailannde”
  • Fulah: “Taylannda”
  • Gagauz: “Tailand”
  • Galician: “Reino de Tailandia”
  • Galician: “Tailandia”
  • Gan Chinese: “泰國”
  • Ganda: “Tayirandi”
  • Georgian: “ტაილანდი”
  • German: “Königreich Thailand”
  • German: “Ratcha Anachak Thai”
  • German: “Thailand”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Thailand”
  • Gilaki: “تایلند”
  • Goan Konkani: “Thailand”
  • Goan Konkani: “थायलंड”
  • Gorontalo: “Thailand”
  • Greek: “Βασίλειο της Ταϊλάνδης”
  • Greek: “Σιάμ”
  • Greek: “Ταϊλάνδη”
  • Guarani: “Tailandia”
  • Guarani: “Tailándia”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Taylann”
  • Gujarati: “થાઇલેંડ”
  • Gujarati: “થાઇલેન્ડ”
  • Haitian: “Tayilann”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Thai-koet”
  • Hausa: “Tailan”
  • Hausa: “Thailand”
  • Hawaiian: “Tailani”
  • Hebrew: “סיאם”
  • Hebrew: “תאיילנד”
  • Hebrew: “תאילנד”
  • Hiligaynon: “Taylandiya”
  • Hindi: “थाईलैंड”
  • Hindi: “थाईलैण्ड”
  • Hindi: “श्यामदेश”
  • Hungarian: “Thaiföld”
  • Hungarian: “Thaiföldi Királyság”
  • Iban: “Thailand”
  • Icelandic: “Taíland”
  • Ido: “Tailando”
  • Igbo: “Thailand”
  • Iloko: “Tailandia”
  • Inari Sami: “Thaieennâm kunâgâskodde”
  • Inari Sami: “Thaieennâm”
  • Indonesian: “Kerajaan Thailand”
  • Indonesian: “Thailand”
  • Ingush: “Таиланд”
  • Interlingua: “Thailanda”
  • Interlingua: “Thailandia”
  • Interlingue: “Thailand”
  • Inupiaq: “Tailan”
  • Inupiaq: “Thailand”
  • Irish: “an Téalainn”
  • Irish: “An Téalainn”
  • Italian: “Regno di Thailandia”
  • Italian: “Siam”
  • Italian: “Tailandia”
  • Italian: “Thailandia”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Tailan”
  • Japanese: “タイ”
  • Japanese: “タイランド”
  • Japanese: “タイ王国”
  • Javanese: “Tanah Thai”
  • Javanese: “Thai”
  • Kabardian: “Тайлэнд”
  • Kabiyè: “Tayilandɩ”
  • Kabuverdianu: “Tailándia”
  • Kabyle: “Tayland”
  • Kabyle: “Ṭayland”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Thailand”
  • Kalaallisut: “Thailandi”
  • Kalmyk: “Тагилмудин Нутг”
  • Kannada: “ಥೈಲ್ಯಾಂಡ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Tailand”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Тайланд”
  • Kashmiri: “تھائی لینٛڈ”
  • Kashmiri: “تھایلینڑ”
  • Kashmiri: “थाइलैंड”
  • Kashubian: “Tajlandiô”
  • Kazakh: “Таиланд”
  • Kazakh: “Тайланд”
  • Khmer: “ថៃ”
  • Kikuyu: “Tailandi”
  • Kikuyu: “Thailand”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Tayilande”
  • Kirghiz: “Таиланд”
  • Kirghiz: “Тайланд”
  • Komering: “Thailand”
  • Komi: “Таиланд”
  • Kongo: “Kingdom of Thailand”
  • Kongo: “Thailand”
  • Korean: “타이 왕국”
  • Korean: “타이”
  • Korean: “태국”
  • Kurdish: “Tayland”
  • Kurdish: “Taylenda”
  • Kurdish: “تایلەند”
  • Ladin: “Thailandia”
  • Ladino: “Tailandia”
  • Lao: “Kingdom of Thailand”
  • Lao: “Thailand”
  • Lao: “ໄທ”
  • Lao: “ໄທແລນ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດໄທ”
  • Lao: “ເມືອງໄທ”
  • Lao: “ລາຊະອານາຈັກໄທ”
  • Latin: “Thailandia”
  • Latvian: “Taizeme”
  • Lezghian: “Таиланд”
  • Ligurian: “Thailandia”
  • Limburgan: “Thailand”
  • Lingala: “Tailandɛ”
  • Lingala: “Thaïlande”
  • Lingala: “Thailandi”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Tai”
  • Literary Chinese: “泰國”
  • Lithuanian: “Tailandas”
  • Livvi: “Thaimua”
  • Lojban: “tais”
  • Lombard: “Thailandia”
  • Low German: “Thailaand”
  • Low German: “Thailand”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Thailandska”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Tayilanda”
  • Luxembourgish: “Thailand”
  • Macedonian: “Кралство Тајланд”
  • Macedonian: “Сијам”
  • Macedonian: “Тајланд”
  • Madurese: “Thailand”
  • Magahi: “थाइलेण्ड्”
  • Magahi: “श्यामदेश”
  • Magahi: “स्याम”
  • Maithili: “थाइल्याण्ड”
  • Malagasy: “Tailandy”
  • Malagasy: “Thailandy”
  • Malay: “Kerajaan Negara Thai”
  • Malay: “Kerajaan Thailand”
  • Malay: “negara Thai”
  • Malay: “Thailand”
  • Malay: “تهايلند”
  • Malayalam: “തായ് ലാന്റ്”
  • Malayalam: “തായ്‌ലാൻഡ്”
  • Malayalam: “തായ്‌ലാന്റ്”
  • Maltese: “it-Tajlandja”
  • Maltese: “Renju tat-Tajlandja”
  • Maltese: “Tajlandja”
  • Manipuri: “ꯊꯥꯢꯂꯦꯟ”
  • Manx: “Reeriaght y Çheer Thai”
  • Manx: “Seeam”
  • Manx: “y Cheer Thai”
  • Manx: “y Çheer Thai”
  • Manx: “Yn Çheer Thai”
  • Maori: “Tairana”
  • Marathi: “थायलंड”
  • Mazanderani: “تایلند”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Tái-guók”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Thài-kok”
  • Minangkabau: “Thailand”
  • Mingrelian: “სიამი”
  • Mingrelian: “სიამიშ ომაფე”
  • Mingrelian: “ტაილანდი”
  • Mingrelian: “ტაილანდიშ ომაფე”
  • Mirandese: “Tailándia”
  • Moksha: “Таймастор”
  • Mongolian: “Тайланд”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “طايلاند”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “طايلوند”
  • Mossi: “Thailand”
  • Narom: “Reyaume de Thaïlande”
  • Narom: “Riyâome dé Thaïlaunde”
  • Narom: “Rouoyaume de Thaïlaunde”
  • Narom: “Thaïlande”
  • Narom: “Thaïlaunde”
  • Nauru: “Thailand”
  • Navajo: “Binááʼádaałtsʼózí Chʼídadeeldlóóhí Bikéyah”
  • Nepali: “थाइल्याण्ड”
  • Nepali: “थाइल्यान्ड”
  • Newari: “थाइल्याण्ड”
  • Newari: “थाइल्यान्द”
  • Nias: “Thailand”
  • North Ndebele: “Thayilandi”
  • Northern Frisian: “Thailun”
  • Northern Luri: “تایلأند”
  • Northern Sami: “Thaieana”
  • Northern Sami: “Thaieatnama gonagasriika”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kongeriket Thailand”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Siam”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Thailand”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Thailand”
  • Norwegian: “Thailand”
  • Novial: “Tailande”
  • Nyanja: “Thailand”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tailàndia”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Tæġland”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Thailand”
  • Oriya: “ଥାଇଲାଣ୍ଡ”
  • Oriya: “ଥାଇଲ୍ୟାଣ୍ଡ”
  • Oromo: “Taayilaand”
  • Ossetian: “Таиланд”
  • Pa'o Karen: “ထုဲင်ꩻခမ်းထီ”
  • Pali: “थाइलैंड”
  • Pali: “देय्यरट्ठ”
  • Pampanga: “Baleng Tái”
  • Pampanga: “Balentái”
  • Pampanga: “Katáyan”
  • Pampanga: “Tailandia”
  • Pampanga: “Tailandya”
  • Panjabi: “ਥਾਈਲੈਂਡ”
  • Papiamento: “Tailandia”
  • Papiamento: “Thailand”
  • Persian: “تایلند”
  • Picard: “Thaïlinde”
  • Piemontese: “Thailandia”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Tailan”
  • Polish: “Królestwo Tajlandii”
  • Polish: “Syjam”
  • Polish: “Tajlandia”
  • Portuguese: “Tailândia”
  • Pushto: “تايلنډ”
  • Pushto: “تایلنډ”
  • Pushto: “تهايلنډ”
  • Quechua: “Tailandia”
  • Quechua: “Thaysuyu”
  • Rakhine: “ထိုင်းနိုင်ငံ”
  • Rakhine: “ထိုင်းဘုရင့်နိုင်ငံ”
  • Romanian: “Tailanda”
  • Romanian: “Thailanda”
  • Romansh: “Tailanda”
  • Rundi: “Tayilandi”
  • Russia Buriat: “Таиланд”
  • Russia Buriat: “Тайланд”
  • Russian: “Королевство Таиланд”
  • Russian: “Сиам”
  • Russian: “Таиланд”
  • Russian: “Тайланд”
  • Rusyn: “Таїланд”
  • Sakizaya: “Thailand”
  • Samoan: “Taialani”
  • Samogitian: “Tailands”
  • Sango: “Tailânde”
  • Sanskrit: “थाइलैंड”
  • Sanskrit: “थाईलेण्ड्”
  • Sanskrit: “थैलेण्ड्”
  • Santali: “ᱛᱷᱟᱭᱞᱮᱱᱰ”
  • Sardinian: “Tailàndia”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Thailound”
  • Scots: “Thailand”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Dùthaich nan Tàidh”
  • Serbian: “Tajland”
  • Serbian: “Тајланд”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tajland”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းထႆး”
  • Shona: “Thailand”
  • Sicilian: “Tailandia”
  • Sicilian: “Thailandia”
  • Silesian: “Tajlandyjo”
  • Sindhi: “ٿائيليند”
  • Sindhi: “ٿائيلينڊ”
  • Sinhala: “තායිලන්තය”
  • Skolt Sami: “Thaijânnam koonǥõskåʹdd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Thaijânnam”
  • Slovak: “Thajské kráľovstvo”
  • Slovak: “Thajsko”
  • Slovenian: “Tajska”
  • Somali: “Taylaand”
  • Somali: “Tayland”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تایلند”
  • Spanish: “Reino de Tailandia”
  • Spanish: “Siam”
  • Spanish: “Tailandia”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Taikondre”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵜⴰⵢⵍⴰⵏⴷ”
  • Sundanese: “Thailand”
  • Swahili: “Tailandi”
  • Swahili: “Uthai”
  • Swati: “IThayilandi”
  • Swedish: “Kungadömet Thailand”
  • Swedish: “Kungariket Thailand”
  • Swedish: “Siam”
  • Swedish: “Thailand”
  • Swiss German: “Thailand”
  • Sylheti: “ꠕꠣꠁꠟꠦꠘ꠆ꠒ”
  • Tagalog: “Taylandiya”
  • Tagalog: “Thailand”
  • Tai Nüa: “ᥛᥫᥒᥰ ᥗᥭᥰ”
  • Tajik: “Таиланд”
  • Talysh: “Tailənd”
  • Tamil: “சியாம்”
  • Tamil: “சீயம்”
  • Tamil: “தாய்லாந்து”
  • Taroko: “Thailand”
  • Tatar: “Таиланд”
  • Tatar: “Тайланд”
  • Telugu: “థాయిలాండ్”
  • Telugu: “థాయ్ లాండ్”
  • Tetum: “Tailándia”
  • Thai: “ไทย”
  • Thai: “ประเทศไทย”
  • Thai: “ประเทศสยาม”
  • Thai: “เมืองไทย”
  • Thai: “ราชอาณาจักรไทย”
  • Thai: “ราชอาณาจักรสยาม”
  • Thai: “สยาม”
  • Tibetan: “ཐའི་ལེན།”
  • Tigrinya: “ታይላንድ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Tailan”
  • Tok Pisin: “Thailand”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Tailani”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Thailand”
  • Tsonga: “Thailand”
  • Tswana: “Thailand”
  • Tulu: “ಥೈಲ್ಯಾಂಡ್”
  • Tumbuka: “Thailand”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “تايلاندا”
  • Turkish: “Tayland”
  • Turkmen: “Taýland”
  • Twi: “Thailand”
  • Tyap: “Tailan”
  • Udmurt: “Таиланд”
  • Uighur: “تايلاند”
  • Ukrainian: “Королівство Таїланд”
  • Ukrainian: “Таїланд”
  • Ukrainian: “Тайланд”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Thailandska”
  • Urdu: “تھائی لینڈ”
  • Uzbek: “Tailand”
  • Venetian: “Taiłàndia”
  • Venetian: “Thailandia”
  • Veps: “Siam”
  • Veps: “Tailand”
  • Veps: “Tailandan Kunigahuz”
  • Veps: “Tajanma”
  • Vietnamese: “th”
  • Vietnamese: “Thái Lan”
  • Vietnamese: “Vương quốc Thái Lan”
  • Vlaams: “Thailand”
  • Vlax Romani: “Thailand”
  • Volapük: “Tayän”
  • Võro: “Tai”
  • Walloon: “Taylande”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Taylandya”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Thailand”
  • Welsh: “Gwlad Tai”
  • Welsh: “Gwlad Thai”
  • West Coast Bajau: “Thailand”
  • Western Armenian: “Թայլանտ”
  • Western Frisian: “Tailân”
  • Western Frisian: “Thailân”
  • Western Panjabi: “تھائی لینڈ”
  • Wolof: “Taaylaand”
  • Wolof: “Taylànd”
  • Wu Chinese: “暹逻”
  • Wu Chinese: “泰国”
  • Yakut: “Тайлаан”
  • Yiddish: “טיילאנד”
  • Yiddish: “טיילאַנד”
  • Yoruba: “Tailandi”
  • Yoruba: “Tháílàndì”
  • Yue Chinese: “暹羅”
  • Yue Chinese: “泰國”
  • Yue Chinese: “泰王國”
  • Zeeuws: “Thailand”
  • Zhuang: “Daigoz”
  • Zulu: “i-Thailand”
  • Zulu: “IThailande”
  • “ma Tawi”
  • “Tai”
  • “Tailândia”
  • “Tailandiah”
  • “Tailandiah Weyitlahtohkayotl”
  • “Tailands”
  • “TH”
  • “THA”
  • “Thailand”
  • “Thailandie”
  • “थाइलैंड”

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