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World Gazetteer Results for Klaeng:
NameKlaeng
Geographical TypeLocality
Population55619
Latitude
Longitude
CountryThailand
Administrative DivisionRayong
Dictionary Results for Thailand:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
Thailand
    n 1: a country of southeastern Asia that extends southward along
         the Isthmus of Kra to the Malay Peninsula; "Thailand is the
         official name of the former Siam" [syn: Thailand,
         Kingdom of Thailand, Siam]

2. CIA World Factbook 2002
Thailand

   Introduction Thailand
   ---------------------
                            Background: A unified Thai kingdom was
                                        established in the mid-14th century.
                                        Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand
                                        is the only Southeast Asian country
                                        never to have been taken over by a
                                        European power. A bloodless
                                        revolution in 1932 led to a
                                        constitutional monarchy. In alliance
                                        with Japan during World War II,
                                        Thailand became a US ally following
                                        the conflict.
  
   Geography Thailand
   ------------------
                              Location: Southeastern Asia, bordering the
                                        Andaman Sea and the Gulf of
                                        Thailand, southeast of Burma
                Geographic coordinates: 15 00 N, 100 00 E
                        Map references: Southeast Asia
                                  Area: total: 514,000 sq km
                                        water: 2,230 sq km
                                        land: 511,770 sq km
                    Area - comparative: slightly more than twice the size of
                                        Wyoming
                       Land boundaries: total: 4,863 km
                                        border countries: Burma 1,800 km,
                                        Cambodia 803 km, Laos 1,754 km,
                                        Malaysia 506 km
                             Coastline: 3,219 km
                       Maritime claims: continental shelf: 200-m depth or to
                                        the depth of exploitation
                                        exclusive economic zone: 200 NM
                                        territorial sea: 12 NM
                               Climate: tropical; rainy, warm, cloudy
                                        southwest monsoon (mid-May to
                                        September); dry, cool northeast
                                        monsoon (November to mid-March);
                                        southern isthmus always hot and
                                        humid
                               Terrain: central plain; Khorat Plateau in the
                                        east; mountains elsewhere
                    Elevation extremes: lowest point: Gulf of Thailand 0 m
                                        highest point: Doi Inthanon 2,576 m
                     Natural resources: tin, rubber, natural gas, tungsten,
                                        tantalum, timber, lead, fish,
                                        gypsum, lignite, fluorite, arable
                                        land
                              Land use: arable land: 32.88%
                                        permanent crops: 7%
                                        other: 60.12% (1998 est.)
                        Irrigated land: 47,490 sq km (1998 est.)
                       Natural hazards: land subsidence in Bangkok area
                                        resulting from the depletion of the
                                        water table; droughts
          Environment - current issues: air pollution from vehicle
                                        emissions; water pollution from
                                        organic and factory wastes;
                                        deforestation; soil erosion;
                                        wildlife populations threatened by
                                        illegal hunting
            Environment - international party to: Climate Change,
                            agreements: Desertification, Endangered Species,
                                        Hazardous Wastes, Marine Life
                                        Conservation, Nuclear Test Ban,
                                        Ozone Layer Protection, Tropical
                                        Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94,
                                        Wetlands
                                        signed, but not ratified:
                                        Biodiversity, Climate Change-Kyoto
                                        Protocol, Law of the Sea
                      Geography - note: controls only land route from Asia
                                        to Malaysia and Singapore
  
   People Thailand
   ---------------
                            Population: 62,354,402
                                        note: estimates for this country
                                        explicitly take into account the
                                        effects of excess mortality due to
                                        AIDS; this can result in lower life
                                        expectancy, higher infant mortality
                                        and death rates, lower population
                                        and growth rates, and changes in the
                                        distribution of population by age
                                        and sex than would otherwise be
                                        expected (July 2002 est.)
                         Age structure: 0-14 years: 23.3% (male 7,404,227;
                                        female 7,121,083)
                                        15-64 years: 69.9% (male 21,469,186;
                                        female 22,090,520)
                                        65 years and over: 6.8% (male
                                        1,868,632; female 2,400,754) (2002
                                        est.)
                Population growth rate: 0.88% (2002 est.)
                            Birth rate: 16.39 births/1,000 population (2002
                                        est.)
                            Death rate: 7.55 deaths/1,000 population (2002
                                        est.)
                    Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2002
                                        est.)
                             Sex ratio: at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
                                        under 15 years: 1.04 male(s)/female
                                        15-64 years: 0.97 male(s)/female
                                        65 years and over: 0.78 male(s)/
                                        female
                                        total population: 0.97 male(s)/
                                        female (2002 est.)
                 Infant mortality rate: 29.5 deaths/1,000 live births (2002
                                        est.)
              Life expectancy at birth: total population: 69.18 years
                                        female: 72.51 years (2002 est.)
                                        male: 66 years
                  Total fertility rate: 1.86 children born/woman (2002 est.)
      HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 2.15% (1999 est.)
     HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/ 755,000 (1999 est.)
                                  AIDS:
                     HIV/AIDS - deaths: 66,000 (1999 est.)
                           Nationality: noun: Thai (singular and plural)
                                        adjective: Thai
                         Ethnic groups: Thai 75%, Chinese 14%, other 11%
                             Religions: Buddhism 95%, Muslim 3.8%,
                                        Christianity 0.5%, Hinduism 0.1%,
                                        other 0.6% (1991)
                             Languages: Thai, English (secondary language of
                                        the elite), ethnic and regional
                                        dialects
                              Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read
                                        and write
                                        total population: 93.8%
                                        male: 96%
                                        female: 91.6% (1995 est.)
  
   Government Thailand
   -------------------
                          Country name: conventional long form: Kingdom of
                                        Thailand
                                        conventional short form: Thailand
                                        former: Siam
                       Government type: constitutional monarchy
                               Capital: Bangkok
              Administrative divisions: 76 provinces (changwat, singular and
                                        plural); Amnat Charoen, Ang Thong,
                                        Buriram, Chachoengsao, Chai Nat,
                                        Chaiyaphum, Chanthaburi, Chiang Mai,
                                        Chiang Rai, Chon Buri, Chumphon,
                                        Kalasin, Kamphaeng Phet,
                                        Kanchanaburi, Khon Kaen, Krabi,
                                        Krung Thep Mahanakhon (Bangkok),
                                        Lampang, Lamphun, Loei, Lop Buri,
                                        Mae Hong Son, Maha Sarakham,
                                        Mukdahan, Nakhon Nayok, Nakhon
                                        Pathom, Nakhon Phanom, Nakhon
                                        Ratchasima, Nakhon Sawan, Nakhon Si
                                        Thammarat, Nan, Narathiwat, Nong Bua
                                        Lamphu, Nong Khai, Nonthaburi,
                                        Pathum Thani, Pattani, Phangnga,
                                        Phatthalung, Phayao, Phetchabun,
                                        Phetchaburi, Phichit, Phitsanulok,
                                        Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya, Phrae,
                                        Phuket, Prachin Buri, Prachuap Khiri
                                        Khan, Ranong, Ratchaburi, Rayong,
                                        Roi Et, Sa Kaeo, Sakon Nakhon, Samut
                                        Prakan, Samut Sakhon, Samut
                                        Songkhram, Sara Buri, Satun, Sing
                                        Buri, Sisaket, Songkhla, Sukhothai,
                                        Suphan Buri, Surat Thani, Surin,
                                        Tak, Trang, Trat, Ubon Ratchathani,
                                        Udon Thani, Uthai Thani, Uttaradit,
                                        Yala, Yasothon
                          Independence: 1238 (traditional founding date;
                                        never colonized)
                      National holiday: Birthday of King PHUMIPHON, 5
                                        December (1927)
                          Constitution: new constitution signed by King
                                        PHUMIPHON on 11 October 1997
                          Legal system: based on civil law system, with
                                        influences of common law; has not
                                        accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction
                              Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal and
                                        compulsory
                      Executive branch: chief of state: King PHUMIPHON
                                        Adunyadet (since 9 June 1946)
                                        note: there is also a Privy Council
                                        head of government: Prime Minister
                                        THAKSIN Chinnawat (since NA January
                                        2001) and Deputy Prime Ministers
                                        Gen. (Ret.) CHAWALIT Yongchaiyut
                                        (since NA), DET Bunlong (since NA),
                                        PHITHAK Intharawithayanan (since
                                        NA), PONGPHON Adireksan (since NA),
                                        and SOMKHIT Chatusiphithak (since
                                        NA)
                                        cabinet: Council of Ministers
                                        elections: none; the monarch is
                                        hereditary; prime minister
                                        designated from among the members of
                                        the House of Representatives;
                                        following a national election for
                                        the House of Representatives, the
                                        leader of the party that can
                                        organize a majority coalition
                                        usually becomes prime minister
                    Legislative branch: bicameral National Assembly or
                                        Rathasapha consists of the Senate or
                                        Wuthisapha (200 seats; members
                                        elected by popular vote to serve
                                        four-year terms) and the House of
                                        Representatives or Sapha Phuthaen
                                        Ratsadon (500 seats; members elected
                                        by popular vote to serve four-year
                                        terms)
                                        elections: Senate - last held 4
                                        March, 29 April, 4 June, 9 July, and
                                        22 July 2000 (next to be held NA
                                        March 2004); House of
                                        Representatives - last held 6
                                        January 2001 (next to be held NA
                                        January 2005)
                                        election results: Senate - percent
                                        of vote by party - NA%; seats by
                                        party - NA; House of Representatives
                                        - percent of vote by party - NA%;
                                        seats by party - TRT 248, DP 128,
                                        TNP 41, NAP 36, NDP 29, other 18
                       Judicial branch: Supreme Court or Sandika (judges
                                        appointed by the monarch)
         Political parties and leaders: Democratic Party or DP (Prachathipat
                                        Party) [CHUAN Likphai]; Mass Party
                                        or MP [CHALERM Yoobamrung, SOPHON
                                        Petchsavang]; National Development
                                        Party or NDP (Chat Phattana) [KORN
                                        Dabbaransi]; Phalang Dharma Party or
                                        PDP (Phalang Tham) [CHAIWAT
                                        Sinsuwong]; Solidarity Party or SP
                                        (Ekkaphap Party) [CHAIYOT Sasomsap];
                                        Thai Citizen's Party or TCP
                                        (Prachakon Thai) [SAMAK Sunthonwet];
                                        Thai Nation Party or TNP (Chat Thai
                                        Party) [BANHAN Sinlapa-acha]; Thai
                                        Rak Thai Party or TRT [THAKSIN
                                        Chinnawat]
                                        note: the Liberal Democratic Party
                                        or LDP (Seri Tham) and the New
                                        Aspiration Party or NAP (Khwamwang
                                        Mai) no longer exist as separate
                                        parties; elements of the two parties
                                        joined the Thai Rak Thai Party or
                                        TRT
          Political pressure groups and NA
                               leaders:
             International organization APEC, ARF, AsDB, ASEAN, BIS, CCC,
                         participation: CP, ESCAP, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD,
                                        ICAO, ICC, ICFTU, ICRM, IDA, IFAD,
                                        IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO,
                                        Interpol, IOC, IOM, ISO, ITU, NAM,
                                        OAS (observer), OIC (observer), OPCW
                                        (signatory), OSCE (partner), PCA,
                                        UN, UNAMSIL, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR,
                                        UNIDO, UNIKOM, UNITAR, UNMIBH,
                                        UNTAET, UNU, UPU, WCL, WFTU, WHO,
                                        WIPO, WMO, WToO, WTrO
   Diplomatic representation in the US: chief of mission: Ambassador SAKTHIP
                                        Krairiksh
                                        chancery: 1024 Wisconsin Avenue NW,
                                        Washington, DC 20007
                                        FAX: [1] (202) 944-3611
                                        consulate(s) general: Chicago, Los
                                        Angeles, and New York
                                        telephone: [1] (202) 944-3600
     Diplomatic representation from the chief of mission: Ambassador Darryl
                                    US: N. JOHNSON
                                        embassy: 120/22 Wireless Road,
                                        Bangkok
                                        mailing address: APO AP 96546
                                        telephone: [66] (2) 205-4000
                                        FAX: [66] (2) 254-1171
                                        consulate(s) general: Chiang Mai
                      Flag description: five horizontal bands of red (top),
                                        white, blue (double width), white,
                                        and red
  
   Economy Thailand
   ----------------
                    Economy - overview: After enjoying the world's highest
                                        growth rate from 1985 to 1995 -
                                        averaging almost 9% annually -
                                        increased speculative pressure on
                                        Thailand's currency in 1997 led to a
                                        crisis that uncovered financial
                                        sector weaknesses and forced the
                                        government to float the baht. Long
                                        pegged at 25 to the dollar, the baht
                                        reached its lowest point of 56 to
                                        the dollar in January 1998 and the
                                        economy contracted by 10.2% that
                                        same year. Thailand entered a
                                        recovery stage in 1999, expanding
                                        4.2% and grew 4.4% in 2000, largely
                                        due to strong exports - which
                                        increased about 20% in 2000. An
                                        ailing financial sector and the slow
                                        pace of corporate debt
                                        restructuring, combined with a
                                        softening of global demand, however,
                                        slowed growth in 2001 to 1.4%.
                                   GDP: purchasing power parity - $410
                                        billion (2001 est.)
                GDP - real growth rate: 1.4% (2001 est.)
                      GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $6,600
                                        (2001 est.)
           GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 11%
                                        industry: 40%
                                        services: 49% (2001)
         Population below poverty line: 12.5% (1998 est.)
     Household income or consumption by lowest 10%: 2.8%
                      percentage share: highest 10%: 32.4% (1998)
   Distribution of family income - Gini 41.4 (1998)
                                 index:
      Inflation rate (consumer prices): 1.6% (2001)
                           Labor force: 33.4 million (2001 est.)
           Labor force - by occupation: agriculture 54%, industry 15%,
                                        services 31% (1996 est.)
                     Unemployment rate: 3.9% (2001 est.)
                                Budget: revenues: $19 billion
                                        expenditures: $21 billion, including
                                        capital expenditures of $NA (2000
                                        est.)
                            Industries: 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
     Industrial production growth rate: 3% (2000 est.)
              Electricity - production: 94.314 billion kWh (2000)
    Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 92.26%
                                        hydro: 6.33%
                                        other: 1.41% (2000)
                                        nuclear: 0%
             Electricity - consumption: 90.261 billion kWh (2000)
                 Electricity - exports: 151 million kWh (2000)
                 Electricity - imports: 2.7 billion kWh (2000)
                Agriculture - products: rice, cassava (tapioca), rubber,
                                        corn, sugarcane, coconuts, soybeans
                               Exports: $65.3 billion (f.o.b., 2001 est.)
                 Exports - commodities: computers, transistors, seafood,
                                        clothing, rice
                    Exports - partners: US 23%, Japan 14%, Singapore 8%,
                                        China 6%, Hong Kong 5%, Malaysia 4%
                                        (2000)
                               Imports: $62.3 billion (f.o.b., 2001 est.)
                 Imports - commodities: capital goods, intermediate goods
                                        and raw materials, consumer goods,
                                        fuels
                    Imports - partners: Japan 24%, US 11%, Singapore 10%,
                                        Malaysia 6%, China 4%, Taiwan 4%
                                        (2000)
                       Debt - external: $69.4 billion (2001 est.)
              Economic aid - recipient: $131.5 million (1998 est.)
                              Currency: baht (THB)
                         Currency code: THB
                        Exchange rates: baht per US dollar - 43.982 (January
                                        2002), 43.432 (2001), 40.112 (2000),
                                        37.814 (1999), 41.359 (1998), 31.364
                                        (1997)
                           Fiscal year: 1 October - 30 September
  
   Communications Thailand
   -----------------------
        Telephones - main lines in use: 5.6 million (2000)
          Telephones - mobile cellular: 3.1 million (2002)
                      Telephone system: general assessment: service to
                                        general public adequate, but
                                        investment in technological upgrades
                                        reduced by recession; bulk of
                                        service to government activities
                                        provided by multichannel cable and
                                        microwave radio relay network
                                        domestic: microwave radio relay and
                                        multichannel cable; domestic
                                        satellite system being developed
                                        international: satellite earth
                                        stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Indian
                                        Ocean and 1 Pacific Ocean)
              Radio broadcast stations: AM 204, FM 334, shortwave 6 (1999)
                                Radios: 13.96 million (1997)
         Television broadcast stations: 5 (all in Bangkok; plus 131
                                        repeaters) (1997)
                           Televisions: 15.19 million (1997)
                 Internet country code: .th
     Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 15 (2000)
                        Internet users: 2.3 million (2000)
  
   Transportation Thailand
   -----------------------
                              Railways: total: 4,071 km
                                        narrow gauge: 4,071 km 1.000-m gauge
                                        (`2001)
                              Highways: total: 64,600 km
                                        paved: 62,985 km
                                        unpaved: 1,615 km (1996)
                             Waterways: 4,000 km
                                        note: 3,701 km are navigable
                                        throughout the year by boats with
                                        drafts up to 0.9 meters; numerous
                                        minor waterways serve shallow-draft
                                        native craft
                             Pipelines: petroleum products 67 km; natural
                                        gas 350 km
                     Ports and harbors: Bangkok, Laem Chabang, Pattani,
                                        Phuket, Sattahip, Si Racha, Songkhla
                       Merchant marine: total: 297 ships (1,000 GRT or over)
                                        totaling 1,661,314 GRT/2,564,820 DWT
  
                                        note: includes some foreign-owned
                                        ships registered here as a flag of
                                        convenience: Germany 1, Greece 1,
                                        Indonesia 1, Japan 1, Norway 24,
                                        Panama 1, Singapore 1 (2002 est.)
                                        ships by type: bulk 34, cargo 133,
                                        chemical tanker 3, combination bulk
                                        1, container 14, liquefied gas 20,
                                        multi-functional large-load carrier
                                        2, passenger 1, petroleum tanker 65,
                                        refrigerated cargo 16, roll on/roll
                                        off 2, short-sea passenger 2,
                                        specialized tanker 4
                              Airports: 110 (2001)
         Airports - with paved runways: total: 59
                                        over 3,047 m: 7
                                        2,438 to 3,047 m: 10
                                        914 to 1,523 m: 16
                                        under 914 m: 4 (2001)
                                        1,524 to 2,437 m: 22
       Airports - with unpaved runways: total: 51
                                        1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
                                        914 to 1,523 m: 19
                                        under 914 m: 31 (2001)
                             Heliports: 2 (2001)
  
   Military Thailand
   -----------------
                      Military branches: Royal Thai Army, Royal Thai Navy
                                         (includes Royal Thai Marine Corps),
                                         Royal Thai Air Force, paramilitary
                                         forces (includes the Border Patrol
                                         Police [including Police Aerial
                                         Reinforcement Unit], Thahan Phran,
                                         Special Action Forces, Police
                                         Aviation Division, Thai Marine
                                         Police, and the Volunteer Defense
                                         Corps)
       Military manpower - military age: 18 years of age (2002 est.)
       Military manpower - availability: males age 15-49: 17,766,501 (2002
                                         est.)
    Military manpower - fit for military males age 15-49: 10,660,530 (2002
                                service: est.)
   Military manpower - reaching military males: 567,659 (2002 est.)
                           age annually:
          Military expenditures - dollar $1.775 billion (FY00)
                                 figure:
      Military expenditures - percent of 1.4% (FY00)
                                    GDP:
  
   Transnational Issues Thailand
   -----------------------------
              Disputes - international: a one km stretch of Malaysia-
                                        Thailand territory at the mouth of
                                        the Kolok river remains in dispute,
                                        despite overall success in boundary
                                        redemarcation; Cambodia accuses
                                        Thailand of moving or destroying
                                        boundary markers and encroachment,
                                        of not respecting its claims, and of
                                        sealing off access to the Preah
                                        Vihear temple ruin awarded to
                                        Cambodia by the ICJ in 1962;
                                        demarcation of boundary with Laos is
                                        nearing completion, but Mekong River
                                        islets remain in dispute; Laos also
                                        protests Thai squatters; despite
                                        renewed border committee talks,
                                        significant differences remain with
                                        Burma over boundary alignment and
                                        the handling of ethnic guerrilla
                                        rebels, refugees, smuggling, and
                                        drug trafficking in cross-border
                                        region
                         Illicit drugs: a minor producer of opium, heroin,
                                        and marijuana; illicit transit point
                                        for heroin en route to the
                                        international drug market from Burma
                                        and Laos; eradication efforts have
                                        reduced the area of cannabis
                                        cultivation and shifted some
                                        production to neighboring countries;
                                        opium poppy cultivation has been
                                        reduced by eradication efforts; also
                                        a drug money-laundering center;
                                        minor role in amphetamine production
                                        for regional consumption; increasing
                                        indigenous abuse of methamphetamine
  
                                       



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