Thailand is located in the south-central part of Indochina Peninsula in Asia, bordering Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Malaysia, the Gulf of Thailand (Pacific Ocean) in the southeast, the Andaman Sea (Indian Ocean) in the southwest, Myanmar in the west and northwest, Laos in the northeast and Cambodia in the southeast. Its territory extends southward along the crater strait to the Malay Peninsula, bordering Malaysia, and its narrow part lives between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.
Topographically, it is divided into four natural areas:
The jungle in the northern mountainous area, the vast paddy fields in the central plain, the semi-arid farmland in the northeast plateau, the tropical islands in the southern peninsula and the long coastline. Most borders are low mountains and plateaus. The terrain is changeable and can be divided into four parts: west, middle, east and south.
The northeast is the Nakhon Ratchasima Plateau, which is extremely dry in summer and muddy in rainy season, and is not suitable for farming. In the middle is Zhaopina River (Zhaopina River) plain. From Bangkok to the north, the terrain gradually rises slowly, and the land along the Chao Phraya River is fertile, which is the main agricultural producing area in Thailand. To the south of Bangkok is the mangrove area of Siam Bay, which did not enter the water at high tide and became a mangrove swamp at low tide. Southern Thailand is a continuation of the western mountains, which form the Malay Peninsula to the south, and the narrowest place is called the crater isthmus.
Ordinary people in Thailand are used to comparing the country's territory to the elephant's head, taking the north as the elephant crown, the northeast as the elephant ear, the Siam Bay as the elephant mouth and the narrow strip in the south as the elephant trunk.
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With a total area of 486,000 square kilometers, Sichuan Province governs 18 prefecture-level cities and 3 autonomous prefectures, including 54 municipal districts, 7 county-level cities 108 counties and 4 autonomous counties. By the end of 2065,438+07, the permanent population was 83.02 million. Sichuan has the second largest Tibetan area in China, the largest Yi inhabited area and the only Qiang inhabited area. Sichuan's landforms are mainly mountainous, and there are four types of landforms: mountainous, hilly, plain and plateau.
Thailand is divided into five regions: central, southern, eastern, northern and northeastern, with a total of 77 provinces. The government consists of counties, districts and villages. Bangkok is the only municipality.
Reference source: Baidu Encyclopedia-Thailand