Kingdom of Thailand

Capital: Bangkok

Total Area: 198,456.51 sq mi,514,000.00 sq km,(slightly more than twice the size of Wyoming)

Population: 61,797,751 (July 2001 est.), note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected

Estimated Population in 2050: 70,295,643

Languages: Thai, English (secondary language of the elite), ethnic and regional dialects

Literacy: 93.8% total, 96.0% male, 91.6% female (1995 est.)

Religions: Buddhism 95%, Muslim 3.8%, Christianity 0.5%, Hinduism 0.1%, other 0.6% (1991)

Life Expectancy: 65.64 male, 72.24 female (2001 est.)

Government Type: constitutional monarchy

Currency: 1 baht (B) = 100 satang

GDP (per capita): $6,700 (2000 est.)

Industry: tourism; textiles and garments, agricultural processing, beverages, tobacco, cement, light manufacturing, such as jewelry; electric appliances and components, computers and parts, integrated circuits, furniture, plastics; world's second-largest tungsten producer and third-largest tin producer

Agriculture: rice, cassava (tapioca), rubber, corn, sugarcane, coconuts, soybeans

Arable Land: 34%

Natural Resources: tin, rubber, natural gas, tungsten, tantalum, timber, lead, fish, gypsum, lignite, fluorite, arable land

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