Terrain: central plain; Khorat plateau in the east; mountains
elsewhere
Natural resources: tin, rubber, natural gas, tungsten, tantalum,
timber, lead, fish, gypsum, lignite, fluorite
Land use: arable land: 34% permanent crops: 4% meadows and pastures: 1% forest and woodland: 30% other: 31%
Irrigated land: 42,300 sq km (1989 est.)
Environment:
current issues: air pollution from vehicle emissions; water pollution
from organic and factory wastes; deforestation; soil erosion; wildlife
populations threatened by illegal hunting
natural hazards: land subsidence in Bangkok area resulting from the
depletion of the water table; droughts
international agreements: party to - Climate Change, Endangered
Species, Marine Life Conservation, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer
Protection, Tropical Timber 83; signed, but not ratified -
Biodiversity, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea
Note: controls only land route from Asia to Malaysia and Singapore
@Thailand:People
Population: 60,271,300 (July 1995 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 29% (female 8,545,362; male 8,866,271)
15-64 years: 66% (female 19,733,773; male 20,185,392)
65 years and over: 5% (female 1,636,426; male 1,304,076) (July 1995
est.)
Population growth rate: 1.24% (1995 est.)