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Capital and largest city of Thailand
Bangkok, known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon and colloquially as Krung Thep, is the capital and largest 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 9.1 million people as of 2024, 15.9% of the country's population. Over 17.4 million people 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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More than 300mm of rain fell in two days in parts of Thailand’s capital, inundating homes, shops and roads
14 sources compared: Western Mainstream (7), Asian (2). Bangkok’s governor declared the Thai capital a disaster-affected zone after a weekend of intense rainfall, and CNN said ...
BANGKOK, THAILAND — Inundated streets in the Thai capital were transformed into makeshift floating markets on Monday (September 28) as severe monsoon flooding continued to paralyze everyday life across Bangkok. In the hard-hit Bangkapi district, vendors waded through knee-deep waters to sell fish, vegetables, and…