Thailand Geography Guide
In outline, Thailand is fancifully likened to an elephant's head. Bordered in the west by Myanmar (Burma), north by Laos, east by Cambodia and south ht Malaysia, Thailand lies roughly midway between India and china, with latitudes 6 degrees and 21 degrees north. The country extends 16501Km north to south and 800km east to west, but because of the irregular shape, distances between major points are generally comfortable. The land area is 514,000km roughly the same as that of France. A coastline of more than 2500km faces the Andaman Sea in the west and the Gulf of Thailand in the east. Several hundred offshore islands, large and small, dot the coastline.