Statistics

• Location: Southeastern Asia
• Capital: Bangkok
• Climate: tropical

Mid-May to September-  rainy, warm, cloudy southwest monsoon
November to mid-March - dry, cool northeast monsoon
southern isthmus always hot and humid

• Population: 64,865,523
• Ethnic: Thai 75%, Chinese 14%, other 11%
• Religions: Buddhism 95%, Muslim 3.8%, Christianity 0.5%, Hinduism 0.1%, other 0.6% (1991)
• Government: constitutional monarchy