Area
- Total: 514,000 square kilometres (198,000 sq mi)
- Land: 511,770 square kilometres (197,600 sq mi)
- Water: 2,230 cubic kilometres (540 cu mi)
Thailand uses a unit of land area called the Rai (unit), which is 1,600 square metres (0.40 acre).
Read more about this topic: Geography Of Thailand
Famous quotes containing the word area:
“If you meet a sectary, or a hostile partisan, never recognize the dividing lines; but meet on what common ground remains,—if only that the sun shines, and the rain rains for both; the area will widen very fast, and ere you know it the boundary mountains, on which the eye had fastened, have melted into air.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids
Sprouting despondently at area gates.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“The area [of toilet training] is one where a child really does possess the power to defy. Strong pressure leads to a powerful struggle. The issue then is not toilet training but who holds the reins—mother or child? And the child has most of the ammunition!”
—Dorothy Corkville Briggs (20th century)