| Country: (long form) 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: 61,230,874 (July 2000 est.) 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: 65.29 male, 71.97 female (2000 est.) Government Type: constitutional monarchy Currency: 1 baht (B) = 100 satang GDP: (per capita) $6,400 (1999 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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