Population: 64,865,523
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2004 est.)

Capital: Bangkok

Chief of State:
King PHUMIPHON Adunyadet (since 9 June 1946)

Languages: Thai, English (secondary language of the elite), ethnic and regional dialects