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2013 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
24. Thailand
verfasst von : C. J. Campbell
Erschienen in: Campbell's Atlas of Oil and Gas Depletion
Verlag: Springer New York
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Abstract
Thailand, which covers an area of 520,000 km2, is made up of three physiographic elements: mountains rising to 1,600 m in the north give way in turn to the Khorat Plateau and a fertile river basin that drains into the Gulf of Thailand. A narrow corridor leads south connecting additional territory on the Malay Peninsula to the west of the Gulf of Thailand. The country is bordered by Myanmar (formally Burma) to the west and by Laos and Cambodia to the east. It is primarily an agricultural country, with a population of 68 million, although industry has been developed in recent years. Its economy is also supported by tin mining and the production of gem stones, supplemented by offshore oil and gas revenue.