Cambodia<\/strong><\/a>),\u00a0Phang Nga Bay,\u00a0the Grand Palace of Bangkok, the\u00a0Similan Islands in the western Andaman Sea (best diving in Thailand and possibly the world),\u00a0Chiang Mai Night Bazaar,\u00a0Railay Beach (or Rai Leh) with its cliffs overhanging the tropical sea,\u00a0Koh Tao (Turtle Island) which is another top SCUBA diving destination, and the most recent are the\u00a0Phi Phi islands (including Ko Phi Phi, Phi Phi Ley, Maya Beach and Monkey Beach)\u00a0which has exploded onto the tourism scene for good reason.<\/p>\nWe will be publishing more fun facts about Thailand as well as why you should visit this beautiful island nation soon in 2016!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Thailand, previously named Siam from 1945-1949, is located in Southeast Asia. Situated in the middle of the Indochina peninsula, Thailand is the 20th most populous country with a total 2014 population of around 67,200,000 residents (based upon a 2013 estimate considering latest census data and the population growth rate of a little over 0.5%). Thailand […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.populationfun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.populationfun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.populationfun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.populationfun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.populationfun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1781"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.populationfun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2817,"href":"https:\/\/www.populationfun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions\/2817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.populationfun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.populationfun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.populationfun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}