Bangkok, officially known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon and colloquially as Krung Thep, is the capital and most populous city of Thailand. The city occupies 1,568.7 square kilometres (605.7 sq mi) in the Chao Phraya River delta in central Thailand and has an estimated population of 10 million people as of 2024, 13% of the country's population. Over 17.4 million people (25%) live within the surrounding Bangkok Metropolitan Region as of the 2021 estimate, making Bangkok a megacity and an extreme primate city, dwarfing Thailand's other urban centres in both size and importance to the national economy.
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Myanmar, Thailand Earthquake: A powerful earthquake near the Myanmar-Thailand border triggered terrifying scenes in Bangkok, where..
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A powerful earthquake struck central Myanmar today, causing significant structural damage and widespread panic. The tremors were so..
