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    Thailand has a population of around 69.5 million people and a stable constitutional monarchy form of government. The economy relies heavily on tourism, electronics exports, and agriculture. Thailand has a diverse landscape and climate, and over 90% of the population practices Buddhism. The Thai kingdom was established in the 14th century and Thailand was never colonized by European powers.

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    Thailand has a population of around 69.5 million people and a stable constitutional monarchy form of government. The economy relies heavily on tourism, electronics exports, and agriculture. Thailand has a diverse landscape and climate, and over 90% of the population practices Buddhism. The Thai kingdom was established in the 14th century and Thailand was never colonized by European powers.

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    THAILAND

    INTRODUCTION ECONOMY
    A unified Thai kingdom was established in the Economic Overview
    mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, upper middle-income Southeast Asian economy; substantial
    Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country infrastructure; major electronics, food, and automobile parts
    never to have been colonized by a European exporter; globally used currency; extremely low unemployment,
    power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to even amid COVID-19; ongoing Thailand 4.0 economic
    the establishment of a constitutional monarchy. development
    GDP (Purchasing Power Parity) $1.207 trillion (2020 est.)
    GOVERNMENT GDP per capita (Purchasing Power Parity) $17,300 (2020 est.)
    Chief of State Industries - tourism, textiles, garments, agricultural processing,
    King WACHIRALONGKON beverages, tobacco, cement, light manufacturing, computers and
    Head of Government parts, integrated circuits, furniture, plastics, cars/vehicle parts
    Prime Minister PRAYUT Chan-ocha Agricultural products - sugarcane, cassava, rice, oil palm fruit,
    Government Type rubber, maize, tropical fruit, poultry, pineapples, mangoes/guavas
    constitutional monarchy Exports $258.4 billion (2020 est.)
    Capital office machinery/parts, cars/vehicle parts, integrated circuits,
    Bangkok delivery trucks, gold (2019)
    Legislature partners: US 13%, China 12%, Japan 10%, Vietnam 5% (2019)
    bicameral National Assembly or Rathhasapha Imports $233.8 billion (2020 est.)
    consists of the appointed Senate or crude petroleum, integrated circuits, natural gas, vehicle parts,
    Wuthissapha (250 seats) and the directly gold (2019)
    elected House of Representatives or partners: China 22%, Japan 14%, US 7%, Malaysia 6% (2019)
    Saphaphuthan Ratsadon (500 seats)
    PEOPLE & SOCIETY
    GEOGRAPHY Population
    Area 69.5 million (July 2021 est.)
    Total: 513,120 sq km Population Growth
    Land: 510,890 sq km 0.26% (2021 est.)
    Water: 2,230 sq km Ethnicity
    Climate Thai 97.5%, Burmese 1.3%,
    tropical; rainy, warm, cloudy southwest other 1.1% (2015 est.)
    monsoon (mid-May to September); dry, Language
    cool northeast monsoon (November to Thai (official) only 90.7%,
    mid-March); southern isthmus always hot Thai and other languages 6.4%, only other languages 2.9%
    and humid (includes Malay, Burmese) (2010 est.)
    Natural Resources Religion
    tin, rubber, natural gas, tungsten, Buddhist 94.6%, Muslim 4.3%, Christian 1% (2015 est.)
    tantalum, timber, lead, fish, gypsum, Urbanization
    lignite, fluorite, arable land urban population: 52.2% of total population (2021)
    rate of urbanization: 1.43% annual rate of change (2020-25
    as of October 2021 est.)

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