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- <text id=93CT1373>
- <title>
- Thailand--Geography
- </title>
- <article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Thailand
- Geography</hdr><body>
- <p>Location: Southeast Asia, bordering the Gulf of Thailand,
- between Burma and Cambodia
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Area:</l>
- <l> total area: 514,000 km2</l>
- <l> land area: 511,770 km2</l>
- <l> comparative area: slightly more than twice the size of
- Wyoming</l>
- </list>
- <p>Land boundaries: total 4,863 km, Burma 1,800 km, Cambodia 803
- km, Laos 1,754 km, Malaysia 506 km
- </p>
- <p>Coastline: 3,219 km
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Maritime claims:</l>
- <l> exclusive economic zone: 200 nm</l>
- <l> territorial sea: 12 nm</l>
- </list>
- <p>International disputes: boundary dispute with Laos; unresolved
- maritime boundary with Vietnam
- </p>
- <p>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
- </p>
- <p>Terrain: central plain; eastern plateau (Khorat); mountains
- elsewhere
- </p>
- <p>Natural resources: tin, rubber, natural gas, tungsten,
- tantalum, timber, lead, fish, gypsum, lignite, fluorite
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Land use:</l>
- <l> arable land: 34%</l>
- <l> permanent crops: 4%</l>
- <l> meadows and pastures: 1%</l>
- <l> forest and woodland: 30%</l>
- <l> other: 31%</l>
- </list>
- <p>Irrigated land: 42,300 km2 (1989 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Environment: air and water pollution; land subsidence in
- Bangkok area
- </p>
- <p>Note: controls only land route from Asia to Malaysia and
- Singapore
- </p></body></article></text>
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