LOCATION:
Southeastern Asia, bordering the Andaman Sea and the Gulf of Thailand, southeast of Burma
AREA:
total: 513,120 sq km
AREA - comparative:
slightly more than twice the size of Wyoming
NATURAL RESOURCES:
tin, rubber, natural gas, tungsten, tantalum, timber, lead, fish, gypsum, lignite, fluorite, arable land
LANGUAGES:
Thai, English (secondary language of the elite), ethnic and regional dialects
POPULATION:
67,091,089 (July 2012 est.)
GOVERNMENT TYPE:
constitutional monarchy
CAPITAL:
name: Bangkok
LEGAL SYSTEM:
civil law system with common law influences
GDP (purchasing power parity):
$609.8 billion (2011 est.)
GDP (official exchange rate):
$345.6 billion (2011 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
0.1% (2011 est.)
GDP - per capita (PPP):
$9,500 (2011 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 13.3%
industry: 34%
services: 52.7% (2011 est.)
AGRICULTURE - products:
rice, cassava (manioc), rubber, corn, sugarcane, coconuts, soybeans
INDUSTRIES:
tourism, textiles and garments, agricultural processing, beverages, tobacco, cement, light manufacturing such as jewelry and electric appliances, computers and parts, integrated circuits, furniture, plastics, automobiles and automotive parts; world's second-largest tungsten producer and third-largest tin producer
EXPORTS:
$244.4 billion (2011 est.)
IMPORTS:
$214.6 billion (2011 est.)
