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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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Floods across Thailand have killed 24 people and affected millions since mid-September, authorities said on Wednesday.According to the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation, flooding continued in 29 provinces and Bangkok, affecting over 1.12
VTV.vn - The torrential rains that lasted for several days at the end of September caused Bangkok (Thailand) to experience one of the most severe floods, affecting approximately 700,000 people.
Around 320mm of rain fell in Bangkok across just two to three days –almost equivalent to what the city expects in the entire month of September