Thailand

Thailand, united states of america positioned within the centre of mainland Southeast Asia. Located fully within the tropics, Thailand encompasses numerous ecosystems, such as the hilly forested regions of the northern frontier, the fertile rice fields of the significant plains, the extensive plateau of the northeast, and the rugged coasts alongside the slender southern peninsula.
Until the second one half of the twentieth century, Thailand became basically an agricultural usa, but for the reason that 1960s increasing numbers of human beings have moved to Bangkok, the capital, and to other towns. Although the more Bangkok metropolitan location remains the preeminent city centre in the united states, there are other substantial towns, including Chiang Mai inside the north, Nakhon Ratchasima (Khorat), Khon Kaen, and Udon Thani in the northeast, Pattaya within the southeast, and Hat Yai in the a long way south.

Siam, as Thailand changed into officially known as until 1939, become by no means brought under European colonial domination. Independent Siam turned into dominated by using an absolute monarchy till a revolution there in 1932. Since that time, Thailand has been a constitutional monarchy, and all subsequent constitutions have furnished for an elected parliament. Political authority, but, has frequently been held by way of the army, which has taken electricity through coups. During the remaining  a long time of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty first, parliamentary democracy gradually received wider popular aid. Although a disaster emerged in 2006, whilst the army, aligned with the monarchy, overthrew an elected authorities, new parliamentary elections were held—as promised by way of the period in-between government—in 2007.