Thailand

Thailand

Thailand is a country in South East Asia. Its neighboring countries are

Cambodia on the east, Burma (now called Myanmar) on the west, Laos on the north, and Malaysia on the south. The main river in Thailand is the Chao Phraya River which flows south out of the Mae Nam River. The word nam means water in Thai.

Most of the rivers in Thailand start with Mae Nam something. For example: Mae

Nam Ping, Mae Nam Yom, Mae Nam Wang, Mae Nam Songkram, Mae Nam Ngao, Mae Nam

Tapi and Many others. The Chao Phraya River (pronounced chow pee-ah) starts near the city of Singha Buri and flows south through Bangkok, the capital, and into the Gulf of Siam (Aowthai).

The country of Thailand is a little bit less than 200,000 square miles in area. Texas is relatively the same size as Thailand. The size of

Massachusetts is 8,000 square miles. That makes Thailand 25 times bigger than

Massachusetts. The entire United States, however, is about 3.6 million square miles or 450 times bigger than Thailand.

Thailand's population is 57,200,000 people. The population of the

United States is 260,000,000 people. That means that the United States has 4

1/2 times more people than Thailand. Thailand's population density is 285 people per square mile. The population density of the United States is 72.22 people per square mile. Thailand, even though it has a much smaller population and land area than the United States, has a much greater population density.

The population of Massachusetts is 6,000,000 people or 9.53 times smaller than

Thailand. Massachusetts population density is 750 people per square mile.

Massachusetts population density is about 2.75 times larger tha that of Thailand.

The climate of Thailand is mainly sub tropical. Thailand has a mild winter, hot dry spring, hot wet summer, and jumps straight into winter again with no fall. This climate covers most of the northern part of Thailand. On the peninsula that juts out on the southern side the climate becomes totally tropical with a hot, wet, year-long summer.

The capital of Thailand is Bangkok which is located in the middle of the

Central Region on the Gulf of Siam. Bangkok is Know as the "Venice of the east" because of its many canal/streets. On one of these canals ...

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...st Gatherers of Tiger Cave. It was written by Eric Valli who went climbing with three Thai nest gatherers. Eric, Ip, Sahat, and Em, Sahat's son were on the island of Phi Phi which is a few miles off the center of Thailand's southern peninsula. The three Thai men do this for a living.

Visiting Thailand would be so awesome because I could go climbing in these caves and paddle a little boat down the canal/streets and see all the

Buddhist temples.

Thailand's standard of living is kind of low in some parts and very low in others. The children only have 6 years of compulsory schooling. That's a

5th grade educationhere in the U.S. The per capita G.N.P. is only $1,630. The

U.S. per capita G.N.P. is $22,240 or almost twenty times that of Thailand. The life expectancy is 69 years. In the U.S. it's 76 years. The infant mortality rate is 35 out of every 1,000 compared with 9 in the U.S. 59% of the population are farmers. For every 5,000 people there is 1 physician. In the U.S. there are 13 physicians for every 5,000 people. In Thailand in 1970 there were 35 students per teacher. In the U.S. there were 27 students per teacher in 1970.