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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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BANGKOK (AP) — Heavy rain flooded Bangkok over the weekend and into Monday, inundating roads and neighborhoods. Cars and buses were stranded, people carried one another through the water, a
People wade through a flooded street after a heavy rain in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, Sept. 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
Heavy rain flooded Bangkok over the weekend and into Monday, inundating roads and neighborhoods. Cars and buses were stranded, people carried one another through the water, a man used an inner tube, and oil slicked the water’s surface.