Thailand Geography & Weather

Geography

Thailand sits at the very heart of South East Asia and is considered a natural gateway to Indochina. Shaped somewhat like an elephant's head, the country is bordered at its most northern extremes by Laos and Myanmar. The border with Laos runs down the elephant's ear, along the north east of the country, until it meets with the Cambodian border, which runs down the east of the country, before reaching the Gulf of Thailand which caresses the elephant's jowls.

To the west, Myanmar dominates the elephants forehead and trunk before giving way to the Andaman Sea, along Thailand's south western seaboard. The Gulf of Thailand borders the back of the trunk, and at the trunk's very tip, Thailand shares a border with Malaysia.
Roughly the same size as France, Thailand covers a land area of 514,000 square km. From the tip of the trunk to the top of the ear, Thailand measures 1,620 km. The coastline measures 3,219 km.

Thailand is divided into four natural regions. The forested and mountainous north, with its deep, narrow, alluvial valleys; the plateau of undulating hills to the northeast, subject to floods and droughts, and the hilly to mountainous. South, with thick virgin forests and rich deposits of minerals and ores. The fertile Central Plains of the Chao Phraya River in the central region gives the country much of its food supply.

Weather

Thailand generally has a tropical climate with 3 distinct seasons-a hot dry season from March to May, a rainy season from June to September, and a cool season from October to February. In the far south, the climate is humid, warm and variable year round. In the north, changes are much more significant with daytime temperatures in the hot season often approaching 40C, and occasionally dropping below 20C in the cool season.

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