Thai Wiki
Thailand is a country in the centre of mainland Southeast Asia, bordered by Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Malaysia, with the Gulf of Thailand to the southeast and the Andaman Sea to the southwest[^c2]. Home to more than 30 ethnic groups and about 65 million people, with Thai as the national language and Theravada Buddhism as the dominant religion[^c3], it is the only Southeast Asian nation never to have been reduced to a European colony.
The country's history runs from prehistoric settlements such as Ban Chiang through the kingdoms of Sukhothai — the first major Thai state, and the capital of Siam for some 200 years from the 13th century[^c4] — and Ayutthaya to the modern constitutional monarchy centred on Bangkok. Its language, written in a distinctive abugida, and its Buddhist culture, festivals and cuisine have shaped a national identity that is both deeply rooted and outwardly oriented.
The wiki covers that subject across eight broad areas: an overview of the wiki itself, and sections on language, culture, history, geography, society, cuisine and tourism. Individual articles can be read on their own, and cross-references connect them so that a reader can move from the general to the particular — from the [[Thai Language Overview]] to the [[Thai Script]], or from the [[Ayutthaya Kingdom]] to [[Modern Thailand]].
Contemporary Thailand is also one of the world's leading travel destinations: it received 39.8 million international tourists in 2019, ahead of both the United Kingdom and Germany[^c5], and tourism draws on the country's heritage sites, beaches, food and festivals. The articles gathered here aim to give that country — its past and its present, its regions and its people — a clear and reliable account.