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All 50 Bangkok districts declared flood disaster areas
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- Sep 26, 2026, 4:33 AM UTC
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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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Officials placed all 50 of Bangkok's districts under emergency status as flooding spread across roads citywide.
Authorities said the heavy rains have subsided but the flooding is not yet over.
Nonstop rain since Thursday has submerged Thai capital's roads and canals, sending water into homes and stores.