Bangkok
From:
Office of Foreign Affairs Work Committee of CPC Shenzhen Municipal Committee
Updated: 2021-07-05 15:07
Bangkok is the capital and most populous city of Thailand, it's also the political, commercial, cultural center, and a major transportation hub of the country. The city occupies 1,568.7 square kilometres in the Chao Phraya River delta in central Thailand, and has a population of over 9 million. Over fourteen million people, or 22.2 percent of the country's population, lived within the surrounding Bangkok Metropolitan Region at the 2010 census, making Bangkok the nation's primate city, significantly dwarfing Thailand's other urban centres in terms of importance. It became a friendship city of Shenzhen on July 10, 2015.