Thailand Country Profile

Area: 514,000 sq km

Capital: Bangkok

Nationality: noun: Thai (singular and plural); adjective: Thai

Population: 62,354,402
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2002 est.)

Languages: Thai, English (secondary language of the elite), ethnic and regional dialects

Religions: Buddhism 95%; Muslim 3.8%; Christianity 0.5%; Hinduism 0.1%; other 0.6% (1991)

Literacy: 93.8%

Gross Domestic Product—per capita: $6,600 (2001 est.)

Currency: baht (THB)

Climate: tropical; rainy, warm, cloudy southwest monsoon (mid-May to September); dry, cool northeast monsoon (November to mid-March); southern isthmus always hot and humid

Exports—commodities: computers, transistors, seafood, clothing, rice

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Church Statistics
The Church of the Nazarene began work in Thailand in 1989.

District: 2
Churchs: 16
Members: 773
Elders: 2
Licensees: 17

South Asia Nazarene Bible College

Missionaries
Tomo and Ceny Hirahara
Lisa Lehman
Michael and Rachel McCarty
Kent and Kathleen Pelton
Samuel and Supranee Yangmi