Thailand (Twilight of a New Era)

Thailand (Thai: ประเทศไทย, RTGS: Prathet Thai), officially the Kingdom of Thailand (Thai: ราชอาณาจักรไทย, RTGS: Ratcha Anachak Thai), formerly known as Siam (Thai: สยาม; RTGS: Sayam), is a country located at the center of the Indochina peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by British Burma to the north, French Indochina to the north and east, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malayan Union, and to the west by the Andaman Sea and the southern extremity of Burma.

Thailand, along Japan and China, is one of the few Asian states that has not been a colony.