Crossword clues for thailand
thailand
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
from Thai, indigenous name of the inhabitants, + land (n.). Also see Siam.
Wikipedia
Thailand ( or ; ), officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country at the centre of the Indochinese peninsula in Southeast Asia. With a total area of approximately , Thailand is the world's 51st-largest country. It is the 20th-most-populous country in the world, with around 66 million people. The capital and largest city is Bangkok.
Thailand is a constitutional monarchy and was a parliamentary democracy until the coup in May 2014 by National Council for Peace and Order. Its capital and most populous city is Bangkok. It is bordered to the north by Myanmar and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the west by the Andaman Sea and the southern extremity of Myanmar. Its maritime boundaries include Vietnam in the Gulf of Thailand to the southeast, and Indonesia and India on the Andaman Sea to the southwest.
The Thai economy is the world's 20th largest by nominal GDP and the 27th largest by GDP at PPP. It became a newly industrialised country and a major exporter in the 1990s. Manufacturing, agriculture, and tourism are leading sectors of the economy. It is a middle power in the region and around the world.
Usage examples of "thailand".
American aircraft carrier battle group was entering the Gulf of Thailand, possibly in support of the Bangkok regime.
Thailand is intended as a gesture only, a show of support for the Bangkok government.
Thailand had been winning her long fight against Communism, but for many years Bangkok had been losing another war, the war against the drug lords of the Golden Triangle in the northern part of the country, and now the drug war was high on the agenda of the White House.
Thailand, where the smoggy sprawl of Bangkok was as alien as the surface of Mars.
Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar, Bhutan, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and so on.
The motel clerk was instant-messaging her boyfriend in Thailand from the cybercafe next door, so nobody saw him.
There had once been eighteen schools of Hinayana teaching -- all of which had dealt with Buddha as a teacher and urged contemplation and study of his teachings rather than worship of him -- but by the time of the Big Mistake, only one of those schools survived, the Theravada, and that only in remote sections of disease- and famine-ravaged Sri Lanka and Thailand, two political provinces of Old Earth.
The Air Force had frequent flights from Udorn and Korat, Thailand, from Tan Son Nhut, Bien Hoa, and Danang.
Because the airfield was under constant attack every night and the Viet Cong were shooting holes in the planes, he and his flight were soon flying out of Korat, Thailand.
When we went to Korat Air Base in Thailand there was absolutely nothing.
In 1961, on his last day in office, Eisenhower told President-elect Kennedy that if Laos were to fall to communism, it would be only a matter of time before South Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, and Burma fell too.
Caufield, in her work, In The Rainforest, tells of the Lawa living in the rainforest of northern Thailand bordering Burma.
It was more interested in developing mineral recovery operations in countries along the western Pacific rim, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Malaysian peninsula.
Need I mention the recent Radio Peiping call for the formation of internal revolutionary fronts in Thailand, Malaysia, and a couple of other countries?
In the Pacific Ocean, two young American seamen hijacked an American munitions ship to divert its load of bombs from airbases in Thailand.