Map of Thailand

Thailand is located in Asia. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 15.0° N, 100.0° E. It shares land borders with 4 countries — Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia and Myanmar — and also has its own coastline. Within Asia, a continent of 49 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Thailand is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Thailand shares land frontiers with the following 4 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Thailand covers about 513,120 km² (198,117 sq mi). That makes it the 50th-largest country in the world by area and the 13th-largest in Asia, larger by area than 36 of the continent’s 49 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 65,859,640, the 23rd-largest in the world and the 11th-largest in Asia, accounting for about 1.4% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Thailand has an average population density of about 128 people per km². Among the 49 countries of Asia it stands 11th by population and 13th by area.

The seat of government is Bangkok, and the official currency is the Thai baht (THB, ฿), and the main official language is Thai. Traffic drives on the left, and the country observes the time zone UTC+07:00.

Thailand carries the ISO country codes TH and THA, dials on the international calling code +66 and uses the .th, .ไทย internet domain.

Thailand shares its land borders with 4 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Myanmar (capital Naypyidaw, about 51,316,756 people), Malaysia (capital Kuala Lumpur, about 34,231,700 people), Cambodia (capital Phnom Penh, about 17,577,760 people) and Laos (capital Vientiane, about 7,647,000 people).

By area, Thailand is larger than 3 of these neighbours and smaller than 1 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 15.0° N, 100.0° E and opens at zoom level 5, framing Thailand within Asia. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Bangkok. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Thailand lies about 1,665 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Thailand keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+07:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +07:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Thai baht (THB, ฿).

The official language is Thai, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the left-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +66 and websites commonly use the .th, .ไทย internet domain.

In short, Thailand is a coastal country in Asia, sharing land borders with 4 countries. Its capital is Bangkok. Thailand has a population of about 65,859,640 and covers around 513,120 km² (198,117 sq mi), ranking it 23rd in the world by population and 50th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Thailand.

The flag of Thailand is composed of five horizontal bands of red, white, blue, white and red, with the central blue band twice the height of the other four bands.

The flag of Thailand is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.