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Outline of Bangkok. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Bangkok: Bangkok – capital and most populous city of Thailand. The city occupies 1,568.7 square kilometres (605.7 sq mi) in the Chao Phraya River delta in Central Thailand, and has a population of over 8 million, or 12.6 percent of the country's ...
Pink Line (Bangkok) The MRT Pink Line ( Thai: รถไฟฟ้ามหานคร สายสีชมพู) is an elevated monorail train line of the MRT in Bangkok and Nonthaburi Province, Thailand. The monorail line is 34.5 kilometres (21.4 mi) long and has 30 stations. [2] It runs in the northern part of the Bangkok Metropolitan Area ...
Suvarnabhumi is the 17th busiest airport in the world, [ 16] eleventh busiest airport in Asia, and the busiest in the country, having handled 60 million passengers in 2017, [ 16] and is also a major air cargo hub, with a total of 95 airlines. On social networks, Suvarnabhumi was the world's most popular site for taking Instagram photographs in ...
Map of 17th-century Bangkok, from Simon de la Loubère's Du Royaume de Siam. The history of Bangkok dates at least back to the early 15th century, to when it was a village on the west bank of the Chao Phraya River, under the rule of Ayutthaya. [9] Because of its strategic location near the mouth of the river, the town gradually increased in ...
Bangkok, the sole special administrative area, combines the tasks of the provinces with that of a municipality, including having an elected governor. The average area of the 76 provinces of Thailand plus Bangkok is about 6,663.89 km 2 (2,572.94 sq mi), while its average population of all 77 divisions of Thailand is about 908,064 people.
The old Customs House ( Thai: ศุลกสถาน, RTGS : Sunlakasathan) is a historic building in Bangkok, located on the eastern bank of the Chao Phraya River in Bang Rak District. It was built in 1888 as one of the many Western-style buildings commissioned by King Chulalongkorn, and was designed by Joachim Grassi in the neo-Palladian style.
Phra Khanong (Thai: พระโขนง, pronounced [pʰráʔ kʰā.nǒːŋ]) is one of the 50 districts (Khet) of Bangkok, Thailand.Its neighbor, clockwise from north, are Suan Luang, Prawet, and Bang Na districts of Bangkok, Phra Pradaeng district of Samut Prakan province (across Chao Phraya River), Khlong Toei and Watthana of Bangkok.
The city is on the Mun River in the southeast of the Isan region of Thailand, and is located 615 km (382 mi) away from Bangkok. [2] It is known as Ubon (อุบลฯ) for short. The name means "royal lotus city". Ubon is the administrative center of Ubon Ratchathani Province. [3]