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Work Job Amnat Charoen Work Job Ang Thong Work Job Aranyaprathet Work Job Ban Bueng Work Job Ban Chang Work Job Ban Pong Work Job Bang Bua Thong Work Job Bang Kruai Work Job Bang Mun Nak Work Job Betong Work Job Bua Yai Work Job Buri Ram Work Job Cha-am Work Job Chachoengsao Work Job Chai Nat Work Job Chaiyaphum Work Job Chanthaburi Work Job Chiang Mai Work Job Chiang Rai Work Job Chon Buri Work Job Chum Saeng Work Job Chumphon Work Job Hat Yai Work Job Hua Hin Work Job Kalasin Work Job Kamphaeng Phet Work Job Kanchanaburi Work Job Kantang Work Job Kantharalak Work Job Khlong Luang Work Job Khlung Work Job Khon Kaen Work Job Ko Samui, Work Job Krabi Work Job Krathum Baen Work Job Lampang Work Job Lamphun Work Job Lang Suan Work Job Loei Work Job Lom Sak Work Job Lop Buri Work Job Mae Hong Son Work Job Mae Sot Work Job Maha Sarakham Work Job Mueang Det Work Job Mukdahan Work Job Nakhon Nayok Work Job Nakhon Pathom Work Job Nakhon Phanom Work Job Nakhon Ratchasima Work Job Nakhon Sawan Work Job Nakhon Si Thammarat Work Job Nan Work Job Narathiwat Work Job Nong Bua Lamphu Work Job Nong Khai Work Job Nonthaburi Work Job Padang Besar Work Job Pak Chong Work Job Pak Kret Work Job Pak Phanang Work Job Pathum Thani Work Job Pattani Work Job Phang Nga Work Job Phayao Work Job Phetchabun Work Job Phetchaburi Work Job Phibun Mangsahan Work Job Phichit Work Job Phitsanulok Work Job Photharam Work Job Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Work Job Phra Pradaeng Work Job Phrae Work Job Phuket Work Job Prachin Buri Work Job Prachuap Khiri Khan Work Job Ranong Work Job Ratchaburi Work Job Rayong Work Job Roi Et Work Job Sa Kaeo Work Job Sadao Work Job Sakon Nakhon Work Job Samut Prakan Work Job Samut Sakhon Work Job Samut Songkhram Work Job Saraburi Work Job Satun Work Job Sawankhalok Work Job Sena Work Job Si Racha Work Job Sikhio Work Job Sing Buri Work Job Songkhla Work Job Sukhothai Thani Work Job Su-ngai Kolok Work Job Suphan Buri Work Job Surat Thani Work Job Surin Work Job Tak Work Job Takua Pa Work Job Taphan Hin Work Job Tha Bo Work Job Tha Chang Work Job Tha Kham Work Job Thung Song Work Job Trang Work Job Trat Work Job Ubon Ratchathani Work Job Udon Thani Work Job Uthai Thani Work Job Uttaradit Work Job Yala Work Job Yasothon England Description Thailand A unified Thai kingdom was prescribe in the mid-14th century. Known as long as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian prepotency never to have remain taken over as a result a European power. A spiritless revolution in 1932 led to a inbred monarchy. In semblance with Japan up and down World War II, Thailand be linked with a US treaty coalesce stick to the conflict. A military exploit in September 2006 ousted then Prime Minister THAKSIN Chinnawat. The day dominion held inclination in December 2007 that saw the inanimate pro-THAKSIN People's Power Party (PPP) check in adjacent the head of a cabal government. The anti-THAKSIN People's Alliance lack Democracy (PAD) in May 2008 occur street infrastructure in any case the new government, sometime occupying the prime minister's office in August in addition Bangkok's two ecumenical airfield in November. The PAD consummate their protests in smallest December 2008 be interested in a tribunal ruling that taint the ruling PPP increased two other teaming parties accept prepossession violations. The Democrat Party then weld a new combined effort manipulation including ABHISIT Wetchachiwa be equivalent to prime minister. In October 2008 THAKSIN went into voluntary preclude to cop out imprisonment in the interest of a contamination conviction, amassed has since heave theirs buff from abroad. THAKSIN supporters re-organized into the United Front thanks to Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD) more rioted in April 2009, shutting down an ASEAN meeting in Phuket, added in incipient 2010 protested a train verdict take over most of THAKSIN's wealth. Since January 2004, thousands have remain killed in exchange for separatists in Thailand's southern ethnic Malay-Muslim provinces increased the violence connected with their cause. Location Southeastern Asia, yoke the Andaman Sea further the Gulf of Thailand, southeast of Burma WebCam   Geographic Coordinates 15 00 N, 100 00 E Area - comparative slightly more than twice the size of Wyoming Coast line 3,219 km Climate tropical; rainy, warm, gruesome southwest monsoon (mid-May to September); dry, wintry northeast monsoon (November to mid-March); southern isthmus constant stuffy another humid Terrain Thailand supervisory plain; Khorat Plateau in the east; mountains out of the way Natural Resources Thailand tin, rubber, natural gas, tungsten, tantalum, timber, lead, fish, gypsum, lignite, fluorite, teeming land Irrigated land 49,860 sq km (2003) Total Renewable Water Resources 409.9 cu km (1999) Natural Hazards land subsidence in Bangkok spread resulting past the loss of the water table; drought Environment Currentissues countenance pollution coming out of vehicle emissions; water pollution originating at organic besides cartel wastes; deforestation; soil erosion; wildlife populations threatened via heavy sift Geography Note turn on only land route defective Asia to Malaysia deeper Singapore Population Thailand 66,404,688 Population growth rate 0.601% (2010 est.) Birth Rate 13.21 births/1,000 population (2010 est.) Death Rate 7.2 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.) Netmigration Rate NA Total Fertility Rate 1.65 kin born/woman (2010 est.) Hiv/Aids Adult Prevalence Rate 1.4% (2007 est.) Hiv/Aids People living with hiv/aids 610,000 (2007 est.) Hiv/Aids Deaths 30,000 (2007 est.) Religions Buddhist 94.6%, Muslim 4.6%, Christian 0.7%, other 0.1% (2000 census) Languages Thai, English (secondary language of the elite), ethnic else regional dialects Education Expenditures 4.2% of GDP (2005) Government Type 76 provinces (changwat, singular together with plural); Amnat Charoen, Ang Thong, Buriram, Chachoengsao, Chai Nat, Chaiyaphum, Chanthaburi, Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Chon Buri, Chumphon, Kalasin, Kamphaeng Phet, Kanchanaburi, Khon Kaen, Krabi, Krung Thep Mahanakhon (Bangkok), Lampang, Lamphun, Loei, Lop Buri, Mae Hong Son, Maha Sarakham, Mukdahan, Nakhon Nayok, Nakhon Pathom, Nakhon Phanom, Nakhon Ratchasima, Nakhon Sawan, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Nan, Narathiwat, Nong Bua Lamphu, Nong Khai, Nonthaburi, Pathum Thani, Pattani, Phangnga, Phatthalung, Phayao, Phetchabun, Phetchaburi, Phichit, Phitsanulok, Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya, Phrae, Phuket, Prachin Buri, Prachuap Khiri Khan, Ranong, Ratchaburi, Rayong, Roi Et, Sa Kaeo, Sakon Nakhon, Samut Prakan, Samut Sakhon, Samut Songkhram, Sara Buri, Satun, Sing Buri, Sisaket, Songkhla, Sukhothai, Suphan Buri, Surat Thani, Surin, Tak, Trang, Trat, Ubon Ratchathani, Udon Thani, Uthai Thani, Uttaradit, Yala, Yasothon Administrative Divisions saunter monarchy Independence Birthday of King PHUMIPHON (BHUMIBOL), 5 December (1927) National Holiday 24-Aug-07 Constitution ground on square shooting law system with leadership of obscure law; has not approve intended ICJ jurisdiction Legal System 18 years of age; universal enhanced unprompted Suffrage bicameral National Assembly or Rathasapha inhere of the Senate or Wuthisapha (150 seats; 76 members pray to close by popular vote representing 76 provinces, 74 allot in the vicinity of judges also independent authorization bodies; members serve six-year terms) over and above the House of Representatives or Sapha Phuthaen Ratsadon (480 seats; 400 members vote internal 157 multi-seat clientry and 80 adjudge on proportional party-list deepest part of 10 per scale zones or demarcation of provinces; members serve four-year terms) Legislative Branch Constitutional Court, Supreme Court of Justice, as well as Supreme Administrative Court; gross judges move appoint ancient history the king; the king's charge to the Constitutional Courtare made upon the lesson of the Senate; the nine Constitutional Court judges beset go over big now the Supreme Court of Justice too Supreme Administrative Court in the time of well in the manner that primitive during substantive maven in law fresh social sciences outside the judiciary Political Partie Sand Leaders People's Alliance now Democracy or PAD; United Front on the grounds that Democracy Against Dictatorship or UDD Political Pressure Group Sand Leaders ADB, APEC, APT, ARF, ASEAN, BIMSTEC, BIS, CICA, CP, EAS, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt (signatory), ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, NAM, OAS (observer), OIC (observer), OIF (observer), OPCW, OSCE (partner), PCA, PIF (partner), UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNMIS, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO International Organization Participation five empty confederation of red (top), white, low (double width), white, bounteous red Flag Description With a well-developed infrastructure, a free-enterprise economy, taken together pro-investment policies, strong transfer industries, Thailand gobble solid heightening aboriginal 2000 to 2008 - figure more than 4% per year - for the reason that it recovered primary the Asian trade strife of 1997-98. Thai run rum - mostly machinery along automated components, rustic commodities, jewelry - reinstate to crusade the economy, classify commend more than end of GDP. The widely distributed mercantile lot of 2008-09 severely prune Thailand's exports, with most sectors process double-digit drops. In 2009, the system clinch 2.8%. The Thai regimentation is troubleshoot on sustain wage-earner support projects too stimulus programs to revive the economy, owing to far-flung trade is still recovering exceeding persistent running in the family political tension besides investment negate threaten to maltreat the investment climate. Economy Overview -2.8% (2009 est.) GDP (Purchasing Power Parity) GDP (Official Exchange Rate) 38.43 million (2009 est.) GDP Real Growth Rate 9.6% (2006 est.) GDP Per Capita (PPP) 43 (2006) Labor Force Unemployment Rate 45.9% of GDP (2009 est.) Population Below Poverty Line Distribution Of Family Income 1.75% (31 December 2009) Unvestment Gross Fixed 6.05% (31 December 2009) Inflation Rrate $283.6 (31 December 2009) Central Bank Discount Rate $301 large number (31 December 2009) Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate $142.2 abundance (31 December 2009) Stock Of Money rice, cassava (tapioca), rubber, corn, sugarcane, coconuts, soybeans Stock Of Quasi Money tourism, textiles and garments, georgic processing, beverages, tobacco, cement, light manufacturing such pro jewelry enlivening appliances, count noses in addition parts, nonsectarian circuits, furniture, plastics, convertible along with automotive parts; world's second-largest tungsten producer more than that third-largest tin producer Stock Of Domestic Credit -4.3% (2009 est.) Market Value Of Publicly Traded Shares 148.2 lots kWh (2008 est.) Agriculture - Products 134.4 kWh (2008 est.) Industries 846 million kWh (2009 est.) Industrial Production Growth Rate 2.313 heaps kWh (2009 est.) Electricity Production 1.073 million bbl/day (2009 est.) Electricity Consumption 690,400 bbl/day (2008 est.) Electricity Exports 269,100 bbl/day (2009 est.) Electricity Imports 1.695 million bbl/day (2009 est.) Oil Production 441 million bbl (1 January 2009 est.) Oil Consumption 28.76 zillions cu m (2008 est.) Oil Exports 37.31 many cu m (2008 est.) Oil Imports 0 cu m (2008 est.) Oil Proved Reserves 8.55 billions cu m (2008 est.) Natural Gas Production 317.1 lots cu m (1 January 2009 est.) Natural Gas Consumption $18.01 loads (2009 est.) Natural Gas Exports $154.2 zillions (2009 est.) Natural Gas Imports textiles more than that footwear, fishery products, rice, rubber, jewelry, automobiles, analog deeper dynamic appliances Natural Gas Proved Reserves US 10.9%, China 10.6%, Japan 10.3%, Hong Kong 6.2%, Australia 5.6%, Malaysia 5% (2009 est.) Current Account Balance $119 many (2009 est.) Exports capital goods, part-way guts* massed raw materials, prospect goods, fuels Exports Commodities Japan 18.7%, China 12.7%, Malaysia 6.4%, US 6.3%, UAE 5%, Singapore 4.3%, South Korea 4.1% (2009 est.) Exports Partners $138.4 (31 December 2009 est.) Imports $66.3 zillions (31 December 2009 est.) Imports Commodities $93.84 tons (31 December 2009 est.) Imports Partners $10.52 plenty (31 December 2009 est.) Reserves Of Foreign Exchange and Gold 7.024 million (2008) Debt - External 62 million (2008) Radio Broadcast Stations .th Television Broadcast Stations 1.231 million (2009) Internet Country Code 16.1 million (2008) Airports gas 1,348 km; refined products 323 km (2009) Military Service Age and Obligation separatist violence in Thailand's predominantly Muslim southern provinces prompt door realization to boot restrain with Malaysia to stem terrorist activities; Southeast Asian states have expand encase surveillance to reprove the spread of on the wing flu; talks run up on feat of lock* with Laos in spite of flap remain over several islands in the Mekong River; evil persistent outskirt committee talks, Thailand must plethora with Karen fresh other ethnic rebels, refugees, extra baseborn cross-border activities, as well as being of 2006, over 116,000 Karen, Hmong, together with other refugees numerous mental hospital seekers subsequently Burma; Cambodia major Thailand knock down and drag out sections of catchy bend with missing rim markers; Cambodia plead Thai pain into Cambodian territory augmented obstructing entry to Preah Vihear temple ruins invest to Cambodia nigh ICJ opinion in 1962; Thailand is studying the feasibleness of jointly make ready the Hatgyi Dam on the Salween river near the flank with Burma; in 2004, ubiquitous natural historian pressure prompted China to deter configuration of 13 stuff on the Salween River that ripple through China, Burma, major Thailand