Located in the center of Southeast Asia, Thailand is truly at the heart of the region. Looking over a map of Thailand will reveal a country whose borders form the rough shape of an elephant’s head: the head and ears forming the mostly landlocked northern and eastern provinces and the trunk extending down ...
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Thailand, the only Southeast Asian nation never to have been colonized by European powers, is a constitutional monarchy whose ...
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Recent archaeological evidence suggest that the region known today as Thailand has been inhabited by humans since at least 5,000 years ago. Thai are related to groups originating in southern China, Thais migrated from southern China to mainland Southeast Asia approximately the 10th century AD. Prior to this, Mon, Khmer and Malay kingdoms ruled the area....
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